A dedicated young teacher faces challenges motivating her diverse group of at-risk students in a racially divided Los Angeles high school. Despite facing resistance from administrators and colleagues who don't believe the students can learn, she works to understand her students' experiences and inspire them by making the curriculum relevant to their lives. She encourages them to open up by keeping anonymous journals and helps change their views about the importance of education and their own potential futures.
A contest, sponsored by the Emmy-award winning PBS series Independent Lens, to honor those life-changing teachers out there. For more information, please visit http://www.itvs.org/educators
A contest, sponsored by the Emmy-award winning PBS series Independent Lens, to honor those life-changing teachers out there. For more information, please visit http://www.itvs.org/educators
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Part of a special educator’s responsibilities include understanding the characteristics of the major disability categories and how the characteristics affect typical development. When conducting observations and consulting with staff who work with students with disabilities, teachers must be able to articulate the differences in development and prescribe appropriate interventions. Understanding the effect of culture and language development must also be considered in meeting student needs.
Tomas, Kindergarten
Tomas entered Mrs. Richards' kindergarten classroom at the beginning of the school year with great excitement! He showed great interest in learning and being in the classroom with other students. As the school year progressed, however, Tomas' excitement quickly turned into frustration. He struggled with recognizing the letters in his name, identifying different shapes, and consistently could not follow two-part instructions. He also was dramatically less able than his peers to focus on a task. His frustrations have led to impulsive actions. Mrs. Richards has called a meeting with his parents to address her concerns.
Harper, 3rd Grade
Harper attends Sunset Elementary School and is in a class with 25 other third graders. Harper loves her teacher Mrs. Hernandez and struggles when a substitute takes her place. She excels in math and tends to get bored when the other kids in her class struggle. Harper also loves reading about the weather, somewhat obsessively, and can share weather facts and details for hours. She enjoys going to school, but does struggle with the loud noises a school brings. In school assemblies, for instance, she becomes overly upset about the noise level and tends to rock back and forth to calm herself. She also does not like fire drills and has refused to leave the classroom because of the sound of the fire alarm. Instead, she will flop to the ground, kick, and cover her ears.
Austin, 5th
Grade
Austin was 9 years old when he was hit by a car while riding his bike on the sidewalk. He broke his arm and leg and hit his head very hard. When he came home from the hospital he looked just fine, but he needed help. Now back at school, there are changes in Austin that are hard to understand. It takes Austin longer to do things, and he has trouble remembering. He cannot always find the words he wants to use. Math is hard for him now, but it was his strongest academic area before the accident.
Mary, 9th
Grade
Mary and her mother recently moved to the school district from Mexico after divorcing her father, who still lives in Mexico. Mary and her mother now live with Mary’s uncle, his wife, and five kids. Mom is working two part-time jobs to make ends meet so they can eventually afford to move to an apartment nearby. Mom can speak and read English, but is often working during times when Mary is home from school. Mary speaks some English, but only reads and writes in Spanish. She is reading at the third grade level in Spa ...
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How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
2. SUMMARY:
This Story was all about how the teacher
changed the lives of her students by having the
courage, determination, perseverance and patience.
Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job as a
freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow
Wilson High School, which in just two years earlier the
school implemented a voluntary integration program.
For many of the existing teachers, has ruined the
school, whose previously stellar academic standing
has been replaced with many students who will be
lucky to graduate or even be literate.
3. Despite of choosing the school on purpose
because of its integration program. Erin is unprepared for
the nature of her classroom, whose students live by
generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at
all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody
that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the
Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on.
4. The only person the students
hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until
Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion
about a recent drive-by shooting death
that she fully begins to understand
what she's up against. And it isn't until
she provides an assignment of writing
a daily journal - which will be not
graded, and will remain unread by her
unless they so choose - that the
students begin to open up to her.
5. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources
provided to teach properly she seems to face greater
resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as
Margaret Campbell her section head the one who
discourages her that her students from room 203 don’t
have the chance to be a good students and change
for the better, who lives by regulations and sees such
resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will
protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior
honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her
teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to
Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own
idealistic way in life.
6. But in behalf of this situations Erin didn’t find it as a main
problem to stop her job as an English Teacher instead she
continue her passion though they separated by her
husband because of this job. Erin handle and embrace her
diverse students. Her students Eva Benitez a girl who is
more resistant to Erin, Andre Bryant learned how to
respect people. Marcus quitting the gang and ends up
moving back to his mom and Jamal Hill thinks that school
is just a waste of time but with Erin’s helped, her
motivations helps the students to changed their views
about going to school and also for there selves until they
achieve the goals of one another because of the help of a
very dedicated and passionate teacher like Mrs.Erin.
7. Personal Insights
As a teacher Mrs. Gruwell helped change each child's
life. The focus on the movie began with her deciding to change
her career choice and become a teacher. Every event that took
place involved her trying to help her students become better and
let them know that they were in the safe environment. She was
the reason why her class had become united and everyone
understood each other and showed respect for each other.
Mrs Gruwell is a daughter, a wife and a teacher. She is a
new teacher in school, which have a racist problem among the
students. For man of the students, Mrs. Gruwell method were
their first experience including detailed stories of abuse, explicit
street language and extreme violence.
8. Aside from the students attitude the scenario of the
school clearly manifest how environment affects
students learning. Majority of the students suffer
from the issues regarding racism and cultural
diversity which sets them apart and made them
involved in serious gang wars. This results in low
classroom performance plus the fact that most
students are not given proper support and attention
by their families. Students are motivated from what
surrounds them. When the learning environment is
full of negative elements, students will loose their
focus and will stop them from achieving their goals.
9. As a young teacher who inspires her class of at-risk students
to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education
beyond high school because of her dedication to help the
students to change not just their attitudes but also to change
there views going to school and also to make there sections
up not just like before that everyone will gonna look down
and make them feel that their not welcome.
A dedicated teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles
school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of
learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to
take an interest in their education and planning their future.
She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and
encourages them all to keep journals.
Moral values
10. Erin Gruwell, has chosen to be a teacher over becoming a
juvenile lawyer. Gruwell was from a middle class, Caucasian
background that valued education. She saw education as a means
to a better future. She believed that education was a better path
because by the time adolescents reached the court system, the
youth was already lost.
Gruwell was discouraged from teaching by the Head of the
English Department, the Honors English teacher, her father and
eventually her husband. Even the students were disrespectful and
gave Gruwell little reason to be encouraged. The fights, murders
and gang activity would have disheartened a less courageous or
less determined teacher. Against all odds, Gruwell searches for
ways to get her students to attend her English class and learn. She
wears her string of pearls with pride. Her pearls were a graduation
gift from her father and come to represent Gruwell’s rejection of the
cynical administration, and rebellion against all that have no hope for
her students.
11. Last but not least, the most important moral
values that I has learned is that the student's
motivation. We have to improve our level of motivation
if we want to success in this challenging lives. The
students in "Freedom Writers" have very low
motivation due to their background and the history of
their life. They have no motivation to success, to be a
good person and even they only told their oneself to
take revenge on what they have gone through their
life. The teacher has instilled a motivation to the
students slowly. She motivates the students by talks to
them about the history and emphasis on the
importance of each life and also the importance of
being tolerate plus have a peaceful life.