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Five Ways to Teach Black History Month – Nat Geo Education Blog

Posted on February 13, 2012 by edfivecs90

Perhaps as we enter the middle of the month you’re finding yourself looking for resources.  This blog is a great path into the pages and treasures of National Geographic. [EF]

February is the month when we celebrate the rich history of the Black Diaspora and honor the brave men and women who have fought for the civil rights of African Americans.

National Geographic Education has just released a collection of resources to help educators teach this important topic to students of all backgrounds. Here are highlights from the collection comprising five ideas for classroom instruction.

Read inspiring profiles of prominent African Americans, from inventors of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries to Mary Seacole, the black nurse/businesswoman/author/war heroine your students have probably never heard of.

LINK: Five Ways to Teach Black History Month

POST SOURCE: My Wonderful Blog

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Faking ADHD Gets You Into Harvard

Posted on February 5, 2012 by edfivecs90

Just when you thought the debate couldn’t get any stickier, here’s another layer from Heidi Mitchell that will make you shake your head.  Who’d have thought that meds and entrance to Harvard would be in the same sentence? {EF}

Steven decided to dupe his doctor when he returned from his elite boarding school exhausted by the intense competition there. He needed an edge to help him, he felt. So through written evaluations from teachers and his parents, and by deliberately failing tests, he succeeded in getting himself diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and was given both his in-school tests and his SATs untimed. Eventually Steven, which is not his real name, was accepted to a top college in upstate New York, although he no longer takes medication, nor does he consider himself ADHD. The ADHD diagnosis, and the benefits that came with it, he acknowledges, helped him beat the competition.

Welcome to the new way to get into America’s best colleges.

LINK: Faking ADHD Gets You Into Harvard

Post Source: The Daily Beast

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What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by edfivecs90

Harry Campbell

In this week’s posts we’ll start with the Journal, take a turn through New York, whisk through gender-equity, learn about life from a science teacher, and then preview a new search engine. Just an average week in the life of a teacher…

“What was he thinking?” It’s the familiar cry of bewildered parents trying to understand why their teenagers act the way they do.

How does the boy who can thoughtfully explain the reasons never to drink and drive end up in a drunken crash? Why does the girl who knows all about birth control find herself pregnant by a boy she doesn’t even like? What happened to the gifted, imaginative child who excelled through high school but then dropped out of college, drifted from job to job and now lives in his parents’ basement?

Adolescence has always been troubled, but for reasons that are somewhat mysterious, puberty is now kicking in at an earlier and earlier age. A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less….

…What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Fortunately, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists are starting to explain the foundations of that weirdness.

LINK: What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

Post Source: EdWeek: K-12 Talent Manager

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The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids

Posted on January 31, 2012 by edfivecs90

We’ve seen this one forwarded around three times already…

What do we make of a boy like Thomas?

Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. Slim as they get, Thomas recently had his long sandy-blond hair cut short to look like the new James Bond (he took a photo of Daniel Craig to the barber). Unlike Bond, he prefers a uniform of cargo pants and a T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of one of his heroes: Frank Zappa. Thomas hangs out with five friends from the Anderson School. They are “the smart kids.” Thomas’s one of them, and he likes belonging….

…But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he’s smart hasn’t always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork. In fact, Thomas’s father noticed just the opposite. “Thomas didn’t want to try things he wouldn’t be successful at,” his father says. “Some things came very quickly to him, but when they didn’t, he gave up almost immediately, concluding, ‘I’m not good at this.’ ” With no more than a glance, Thomas was dividing the world into two—things he was naturally good at and things he wasn’t.

LINK: The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids

Post Source: New York Magazine: News & Features

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What My 7th Grade Science Teacher Taught Me About Talent Management

Posted on January 31, 2012 by edfivecs90

We hang our hat on the fact that the lessons we teach are about more than our subject-matter.  You never know when a lesson or activity just really might alter someone’s life experiences…

I had a fantastic middle school science teacher, Mrs. McLean, who retired last year after nearly 30 years in the classroom. (Such a shame for the district, but well deserved!) She was not afraid to go outside the box and get messy to enhance the learning experience for her students. She blew things up during class experiments and dropped objects off the school roof to make her lessons more engaging. She took us on field trips and supported her students in extracurricular activities. She also gave students compliments in class and pulled them aside to offer encouragement if she thought they could do better.

There are many lessons I still carry with me from Mrs. McLean’s class, but one in particular has relevance for talent managers…

LINK: What My 7th Grade Science Teacher Taught Me About Talent Management

Post Source: EdWeek: K-12 Talent Manager

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