What Makes a Great Teacher? - Amanda Ripley. On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C.
Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor’s math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools—not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it’s worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. As for the other boy? Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but the school, statistically speaking, does not matter as much as which adult stands in front of their children. Mr. Mr. Next, Mr. Mr. Sandy Hook Elementary shooting: What happened? Before events at the school At some point before he went to the school, investigators believe Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother, Nancy Lanza.
He grabbed three guns from the house -- a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle made by Bushmaster and pistols made by Glock and Sig Sauer -- and went to the elementary school wearing black fatigues and a military vest, according to a law enforcement official. The above weapons are similar to the ones found with the suspect: A Bushmaster rifle, a Glock handgun, and a Sig-Sauer handgun. Classes were under way at the school. Approximately 700 students were present. Earlier this year, the school principal, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, ordered a new security system installed that required visitors to be visibly identified and buzzed in.
The door was locked when the gunman arrived. Authorities now know the gunman used "an assault weapon" to "literally (shoot) an entrance into the building," Connecticut Gov. A graphic depicting the site of the shooting. Teacher talks armed student into giving up, police say. Authorities say teacher Ryan Heber helped talk the gunman into handing over his weapon.
NEW: Teacher rejects the label "hero"A well-liked science teacher persuades a student to give up his shotgunAlso, a campus supervisor distracted the teen while other students escaped, police sayTaft, California, high school classes are canceled Friday as students receive counseling (CNN) -- The teacher stood in the classroom, face-to-face with his 16-year-old student, who was holding a shotgun. Ryan Heber, 40, talked to the teen, trying to persuade him to end an armed assault in which one student had already been shot.
Heber had no idea whether the student -- whose pockets were filled with ammunition -- would put the gun down or pull the trigger. Campus supervisor Kim Fields helped distract the teen, allowing other students in the classroom to escape, while Heber talked to him, according to CNN affiliate KGET. Eventually, the teen let go of the gun, and police took him into custody. Teacher Resources. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
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