Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Internet Safety
Children a very innocent and trusting - a the undesirables - can hide and easily befriend children under false pretenses. As a teacher, I have heard of students getting into trouble on the internet. I have heard of them being threatened by others and bullied. The internet is a source of endless information and is a tool that most of us cannot live without. We must educate our students and our children with all of the "bad" that is out there as well.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
NJCCCS and NETS
I have worked for three different schools in the past few years. One school was a Catholic School which abides by archdiocesan standards, the second school was a charter school which did not adhere to the NJ core curriculum standards and the school that I currently work for has the curriculum for each subject in total alignment with NJ standards as well as bench marks in place to test progression for each quarter.
Working for a school that does not have any direction, that is any alignment with NJ standards was extremely difficult. I was given the task to create the curriculum for the charter school with teachers from other grades. It was our task to align our math curriculum with state requirements. The task was a difficult one, but necessary. As we plowed through the material, we recognized how important teaching and student mastery was for each instruction being taught in each grade level.
When I went to work for the current district that I currently work for, I was impressed with the level of organization and the ease of teaching a subject where the teacher was given direction. The Core Curriculum Content Standards are extremely necessary to ensure that all students receive the same education for each grade everywhere in the state regardless of where they come from. It is very difficult for the teachers to achieve this task due to time constraints and situations that arise that are beyond our control. We must, however, try to meet all tasks specified in the CCCS.