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| 11 Jul 2017 03:23 AM |
| england is mah city Last night my friend and I had just got out of our final, it was the last day of class and we were celebrating with a blunt. Walking around the train tracks by a river to find a good spot to watch the sunset. We saw that a train was about to go by, that was fine and dandy, we got off the tracks and watched it from a distance on the other tracks next to it. I remember I had looked back, and seen the lights and more cars (what I now know was a DIFFERENT train) but they were so far back they looked attached to the ##### train, I thought it was ### single train and my friend didnt even see it at all. So we’re walking for awhile, holding hands I’m in a good mood thinking it was kinda cool watching that train go by, looking at the sky in lala land. We’re hearing the train blaring its horn is just sounded like it was the train that had just gone by, there was no real vibration in the ground just the horn getting louder and all the sounds kind of blended together for me thinking it was from the ##### train going by. What made me turn around was the ######## of the cars screeching on the tracks, we see headlights of an oncoming train right in front of our ####### faces and jump off the tracks onto the gravel. Probably # or # ####### before we would’ve got hit. What kind of idiots have actually no idea a train is right behind them. And we weren’t even ###### yet! |
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| 11 Jul 2017 03:23 AM |
Ever since I was a kid, I loved learning. At a young age I remember writing reports on animals I found interesting. These reports were a page and a half long, and of my own choice. Then I got to school age and found that learning was required. It became forced on me to do assignments, learn about new things, and read books. Like many things children encounter that they like to do, when it becomes forced on them they learn to hate it. For some kids this takes the form of learning to hate anything from eating vegetables, practicing piano, or vacuuming the house. For me, the desire to learn gave way to the desire to skip school and avoid school work at all costs. Granted, some degree of this desire probably came from the social and cultural pressures of my interactions with my peers. It seems that there is a general attitude that to hate school and complain about homework is cool. Still, the biggest factor for me hating school was a lack of my own contribution to my learning. I loved history, in yet when I was forced to answer questions in a work book about American history, I fell behind. Another contribution to this attitude was that I found in the system. I learned that daily work like worksheets and quizzes didn't require a whole lot of learning of the topics. I could pay attention in class, do the worksheets from memory, and skate by with not much absorption of the material at all. It didn't take me very long to abandon all together, ace the tests, and move on with life content with a C. I liked learning but hated schoolwork.
instead of handing out review questions from the book or quizzes on the reading, let's allow students to choose to learn through, means including art, hands-on projects. This can also result in increasing the confidence of students and encouraging them to take on harder tasks. If they have fully grasped the necessary topics in their current year of school, they can even take on tasks of the next grade level. The biggest gain and goal of this method is to change the students' attitudes towards learning, and what is wrong with that?
I for on e look forward to when I have my own classroom to inspire others to enjoy learning once more. Perhaps on e way to do that is through standards-based learning, and I would highly suggest at least taking a look at it further. I hope that one day, going to school and learning subjects can be considered cool and fun and that students won't have to go through the struggles of schooling I did and am still dealing with |
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| 11 Jul 2017 03:24 AM |
Ever since I was a kid, I loved learning. At a young age I remember writing reports on animals I found interesting. These reports were a page and a half long, and of my own choice. Then I got to school age and found that learning was required. It became forced on me to do assignments, learn about new things, and read books. Like many things children encounter that they like to do, when it becomes forced on them they learn to hate it. For some kids this takes the form of learning to hate anything from eating vegetables, practicing piano, or vacuuming the house. For me, the desire to learn gave way to the desire to skip school and avoid school work at all costs. Granted, some degree of this desire probably came from the social and cultural pressures of my interactions with my peers. It seems that there is a general attitude that to hate school and complain about homework is cool. Still, the biggest factor for me hating school was a lack of my own contribution to my learning. I loved history, in yet when I was forced to answer questions in a work book about American history, I fell behind. Another contribution to this attitude was that I found in the system. I learned that daily work like worksheets and quizzes didn't require a whole lot of learning of the topics. I could pay attention in class, do the worksheets from memory, and skate by with not much absorption of the material at all. It didn't take me very long to abandon all together, ace the tests, and move on with life content with a C. I liked learning but hated schoolwork.
instead of handing out review questions from the book or quizzes on the reading, let's allow students to choose to learn through, means including art, hands-on projects. This can also result in increasing the confidence of students and encouraging them to take on harder tasks. If they have fully grasped the necessary topics in their current year of school, they can even take on tasks of the next grade level. The biggest gain and goal of this method is to change the students' attitudes towards learning, and what is wrong with that?
I for on e look forward to when I have my own classroom to inspire others to enjoy learning once more. Perhaps on e way to do that is through standards-based learning, and I would highly suggest at least taking a look at it further. I hope that one day, going to school and learning subjects can be considered cool and fun and that students won't have to go through the struggles of schooling I did and am still dealing with
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