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...small classroom. My new universe included me and Katie, and my universe had no sense of time or place or anything like that. No longer was I in school in the middle of no where, South Dakota.... I…was somewhere else. The fact that the teacher was talking and I wasn’t listening to a word she said didn’t matter to me. School was for losers anyway, right? “James.”I looked at the teacher.“I asked you to tell the class a little about...
Regular folks don't get the distinction between certified teachers and qualified teachers - why the teachers' union wouldn't let Einstein teach physics to high school students because he wasn't certified. Isn't all that matters that our children learn? That teachers give students knowledge? And not how they became a teacher, whether it's from a traditional route or an alternative certification route. At the end of the day, it is not about a piece of paper coming [through] the door. It's about student achievement...
...some experts are cautious about the combo therapy. Their main concern is safety: Are psychotherapists really equipped to teach yoga? "Yes, but only with extensive yoga training," says Bo Forbes, a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and founder and director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics in Boston. She believes that psychotherapists should have in-depth study of yoga and a strong background in anatomy and alignment to limit client injuries. Currently, there are no official licenses or standards of practice for yoga therapy...
...Further, says Forbes, many mental-health experts who try yoga therapy may have a difficult time overcoming the mores of their profession. "As psychologists, we have been schooled against touch. For example, it can take work for the clinicians who go through our teacher-training programs to overcome that prohibition...
...spoke without notes, remembering everyone and everything. No one believed the man was 96 years old at the time.”Beer, a noted scholar of British and American politics, passed away on April 7, at the age of 97. “He was a spectacularly good teacher because his classes were all in the form of questions he addressed to himself and his students, for which he had all sorts of arguments before coming to his own conclusion,” said Hoffman. “It was very different from the typical top-down sort...