Class Update: 2/8/11

This morning we started class with a listening skill lesson.  We paired up into partners, and then practiced listening to our partner for one minute. Next, we talked about the book, The Global Achievement Gap, written by Tony Wagner, and went over seven survival skills.

We then moved on to the topic of the day, which was Chapter three from our text, Introduction to Teaching: Schools and Society and School bullying and Cyber bullying. Mrs. Johnson talked to us about the importance of this issue in education today, and explained how real this problem is in schools. We watched a movie Bullied, which was about a boy that was bullied at school because he was gay.  I was very sad to realize what this child had to endure at school, at the hands of bullies. School should be a place where every child should feel safe, and receive a safe education.