Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea is to build self-esteem by showing youngsters they can cope with fear. Says Former Phys Ed Teacher Kenneth Musko, who developed the program: "Some of them do panic, but you'd be surprised how most of them cope with new situations that normally would terrify them." A few of the 52 stress activities seem particularly dangerous: riding through rapids on a rubber raft, rock climbing and "parasailing" (hanging from a parachute while being towed by a truck). One prosaic activity-incarceration at a nearby jail or detention center-is supposed to show the students the life they...
Much of the abiding charm of the evening rests in two sentimental yet spirited courtships. Doing a bike repair job for Daisy (Virginia Vestoff), Frank falls in love with her. Daisy is a teacher who poignantly wonders how the quiet lessons of the classroom can ever erase from little children's minds the terrorist traumas of the streets. In flashback, Frank's grand father woos Kitty (Maria Tucci), an ardent prototypical feminist...
...Malcolm was first and foremost a teacher. At the end of his life he was talking about human rights, placing the situation of black Americans in the context of the world," Butler added...
...would expect the teacher recommendations, another important subjective criterion, to give some insight into the performance of Third World students. Here also the Third World is shortchanged. The teacher cannot possibly give a good and informative recommendation for a student when he barely knows the students. This is inevitable when the teacher is trying to effectively teach 50 or more students. In addition to this, the typical situation is that many teachers do not sympathize with, understand, or have confidence in the aspirations of their Third World students--largely because most of those teachers are white...
Even if the teacher writes a good recommendation, that involvement stops outside the classroom...