Fire Miss Effie Bar! Based off the short story “The Cat and The Coffee Drinkers” by Max Steele, Miss Effie Bar should be fired from her teaching position, because Miss Effie teaches information that five-year-old kids aren’t supposed to do, she is instructing her kindergarten students how to do her work instead of teaching the regular curriculum, and she doesn’t want the parents of the students to know what they do at school. Some of the things she taught the five-year-old kids to do were how to kill a cat and how to drink coffee, since that is what Miss Effie gives the students for lunch. Kindergarteners aren’t supposed to kill cats and certainly shouldn’t be drinking coffee. So why is she teaching them how to do those things? That’s not
One of Miss Moore's defining qualities is her intelligence. Her academic skills and self-presentation is noticeable through her college degree and use of “proper speech” (Bambara, 385). Miss Moore also makes her intelligence evident from the methods she uses to teach Sylvia and the other children. Unlike planting them in classrooms, she takes them out on trips to show them the real world. Despite all the insults she receives from th...
The superintendent and principal are stymied in their efforts to reach a compromise as Mrs. Durnitz refuses to change her position that the policy must be followed to the letter. She appealed to the teachers’ association for support when it appeared that the administration and board might not uphold her position. The local newspap...
Elkind was asked to do a psychological evaluation on a girl named Jeannie. Jeannie was a thirteen year old girl and was not fully developed. She could not speak, could not walk right, and could not chew. Jeannie was locked in small room most of her life. “Jeannie had spent her day learning the way infants and young children do, through self-initiated exploration and discovery” (Elkind, 90). The time he spent with Jeannie made him think about how eager schools are to teach children today. They want them to learn to read before they know the alphabet. Parents are assuming they know how their children learn. This is causing the
Mary Sherry teaches an evening class and came to the conclusion that kids are being cheated when she asked them to write about an unpleasant experience in school. They all wrote something negative, they were crying out for help. It was also indicated that the teachers should have been more forceful in using the “F” word. Instead, these kids are now very angry and resentful for being passed along. It was also noted that your environment should not be an issue because most kids do not take school seriously and the teachers should have been more forceful with the “F” word. This also causes the employers to be cheated out of what they expect from their employees.
Miss Moore has taken over as an adult authority figure for the time, and she proceeds to offer the kids this kind of outside education monitored in the article. In “The Lesson”, Sylvia says parents speak poorly of Miss Moore, however, they do not turn her down when she volunteers to take the lead of the children’s education. Miss Moore is providing a place for educational activities, which, as noted in the article is involvement behavior, when they are at the toy store, and even during the cab ride when she tells Sylvia to calculate the tip based on the fare. The article also touches on how improved communication between schools and parents benefits the child’s learning. Subsequently, with Miss Moore as a representative of the place of school, the semi-negative attitude towards her from the parents is a reason to believe why Sylvia has much contempt towards Miss Moore and her lessons. If there are at home negative connotations towards school or education, children will be more resistant to the idea of being educated. It does say in the story the parents have no issue sending them off with Miss Moore, which does help her to have influence over the
Jane Elliott puts them through an experiment in which she divided her students to two groups, blue eyes and brown eyes children. The experiment took place in two days. On the first day, she told and made the blue-eyed children feel as though they were better and smarter than the brown-eyed since she was blue-eyed as well. The brown-eyed children had to wear collars so everyone can see who was who. She gave blue-eyed children more privileges such as giving them more play time, and allowing them to drink out of the drinking fountain, where as the brown-eyed had to drink out of plastic cups. She also said that they cannot play with other which separated most of them and made them feel lonely. On the second day, she switched places and the role was now reversed. The blue-eyed children were no longer better than the brown-eyed and it was the turn of the brown-eyed children to be better than the blue-eyed children. She did that to help all the students experiencing
Miss Moore has a specific lesson for that day that she is trying to get the children to discern and comprehend for themselves. “Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven. What do you think?” (Bambara 174). “What do you think?” is the question Miss Moore asks to get the children’s brains working and learning for themselves. Inquiring this question encourages the children to consider new questions and broaden the topic of the lesson. She gives them a single idea to trigger their own personal interests and topics in which she can elaborate on. This helps display that the big lesson of the day is not the only lesson that the children get taught. Cartwright goes on to say in his analysis, “Although Miss Moore’s lesson for the day—the conflict between the rich and the poor and the economic injustice it reveals—is obviously significant, the story makes it clearly and explicitly only one lesson among many” (Cartwright 507). Miss Moore may have a specific lesson for the children that day, but behind one significant lesson are many others. Miss Moore wants the children to find all of these lessons and see how they can help their lives to be more
The critical incident that I will be explaining about is regarding an eight-year-old girl currently a student at Victory Independent School District (VISD). This student wrote on her class journal that her uncle was touching her in her private parts when no one was watching. The teacher was so confused to what to do when he read Bianca’s journal, especially because he was wondering if it was appropriate for him to ask her questions about it. The teacher was concern that due to being a male that the student was going to feel uncomfortable if he were to ask her about what she had wrote in her journal. The teacher did know what to do and he was so confused because he was reading and grading the journals at home during the weekend. He continued reading Bianca’s journal and feeling more worried about his student's well being at home.
“If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a packet. There’s kids in here that don’t learn like that. They need to learn face to face. I’m telling you what you need to do. You can’t expect a kid to change if all you do is just tell ‘em.” Texas student, Jeff Bliss, decided to take a stand against the lack of teaching going on in his class (Broderick).
children start school at the tender age of four. In pre school you are taught to
Fischer, L., Schimmel, D., & Stellman, L. (2007). Teachers and the law (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
At the age of five, children are required to attend school. At the age of 5, teachers become the most influential person in their life. Because teachers are a big influence in the development of students they should possess many good qualities. A few of those qualities are understanding the reason behind the student’s actions, speaking privately to the student about personal matters, and lastly pushing the student to his greatest potential.
because as students in kindergarten and first grade, they are only exposed to a minimum of
On Mondays and holidays, students in Marjorie Lohnes' special education class are transformed into little baristas, serving up hot beverages made to order.
Goldman, Todd Harris. Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. Ed. Patrick Regan. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001. 23. Print.