Word: classroom
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...this as simply as the film does: A man named François Marin (François Bégaudeau) teaches - or tries to teach - French to 14- and 15-year-old students in a coldly modern school in Paris. His classroom is not quite a blackboard jungle, but it does contain a marginally middle-class, ethnically mixed, psychologically fractious group of kids, who constantly challenge him with their lolling indifference, their angry outbursts, their perpetual edge-of-insolence attitudes. To be honest, we do not witness very many heartwarming pedagogical triumphs in director Laurent Cantet's The Class, which...
...sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their defense, blood is accidentally spilled and the boy is threatened with expulsion - which in his case means expulsion not just from school but very likely, given his father's sternness, from France itself...
...Teaching and Torment Michelle Rhee is to be commended for her dedication to students, slashing of school bureaucracy and belief in public education [Dec. 8]. But as a second-grade teacher, I am concerned about her obvious disdain for creativity in the classroom, warm learning environments and such important tools as classroom meetings. I am reminded of a quote by Aristotle: "Education of the mind without education of the heart is indeed no education at all." Perhaps the challenge in Washington is to find a superintendent who believes in both. Amy Trusso, Solana Beach, Calif...
...fulfilled and a thesis enhanced from experiences abroad, according to Office of International Programs officials. But for a certain subset of these students, mere months are not enough time away from Cambridge. Last year, nine students went their entire academic year without ever setting foot in a Harvard classroom without having to sacrifice their Harvard degree. A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCEPeisker said she knew she wanted to go abroad before ever setting foot on campus, having already spent three summers in Ukraine. And she knew that Harvard, home to the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, would provide an opportunity to return.Freshman year...
...qualified people for TFA, whether teaching was their first choice or their second. After all, simply having an interest in business and the corporate world does not indicate that one is unqualified or inadequate to teach; rather, it is one’s commitment and perseverance once in the classroom that matters. It is part of TFA’s core mission to create a generation of teachers from all backgrounds that can “ultimately exert broader societal influence in our nation.” Not everyone in TFA is going to or is expected to find...