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Special Education
"If I cannot learn the way you teach, will you teach the way I can learn."

(Have to find out who's words these are, but they describe perfectly how any student in the classroom feels)

Now, the teacher:

I have come to the frightening conclusion that,
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.

Dr. Hiam Ginott

(A frightening though isn't it...... holding this kind of power over any one.)

If we put an understanding of the elements of both these quotations together, I think we will arrive at the perfect classroom....... Ideas anyone?


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tara said...
Raji, I liked the slogan you havce posted on your blog.

As for losing hair etc., not to worry - in a week's time you will be talking about blogging as if you have been at it all your life!

Tara

3:29 AM


a.v.koshy said...
that's a fantastic quote.

1:52 AM


ppsemohua said...
What a Quote!! Whose was it?

10:35 PM


ppsemohua said...
What a quote!! Whose was it?

10:35 PM


ppsemohua said...
What a quote!! Whose line was it anyway?

10:35 PM


sandra kunder said...
Would love to brainstorm with you to arrive at practical ideas!
Sandra.

6:39 AM


sandra kunder said...
Would love to brainstorm with you to arrive at practical ideas!
Sandra.

6:39 AM