Bullying
No. 80; March 2011Click here to download and print a PDF version of this document. Bullying is a common experience for many children and adolescents. Surveys indicate that as many as half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years, and at least 10% are bullied on a regular basis. Bullying behavior can be physical or verbal. Boys tend to use physical intimidation or threats, regardless of the gender of their victims. Children who are bullied experience real suffering that can interfere with their social and emotional development, as well as their school performance. Children and adolescents who bully thrive on controlling or dominating others. If you suspect your child is bullying others, it's important to seek help for him or her as soon as possible. If you suspect your child may be the victim of bullying ask him or her to tell you what's going on. It's also important to respond in a positive and accepting manner.
7 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
Bring TeachThought Professional Development To Your School! 7 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions by Terry Heick Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers. The latter is a topic for another day, but the former is why we’re here. 8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions 1. The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy is a template for critical thinking that frames cognition across six categories. It imagines any learning product, goal, or objective as a “thing,” then suggests different ways to think about said “thing”–mitosis, a math formula, an historical figure, a poem, a poet, a computer coding language, a political concept, a literary device, etc. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A literary device–a metaphor example, is usually studied in isolation. Self--Identity what you do and don’t understand about the metaphor The upside? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs
FERPA and Teaching With Technology - Digital Teaching Strategies
Security / David Goehring / FERPA is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act . It regulates the privacy of student educational records and data. How does this involve teaching with blogs, wikis, and social media? Emerson College Registrar's office considers educational records to be: Grades / transcripts Student schedules Names of Students' advisors Papers / student thesis / tests Personal information such as Social Security number They go on to advise To avoid violations of FERPA rules, DO NOT: Use the Social Security number of a student in a public posting of grades, or link the name of a student with that student's Social Security number in any public manner; Leave graded tests in a stack for students to pick up by sorting through the papers of all students; Circulate a printed class list with student name and Social Security number or grades as an attendance roster; Provide anyone outside the College with lists of students enrolled in classes;
Friends . Bullies
someone else. No matter what situation or form it comes in, bullying can make you feel depressed, hurt, and alone. It can keep you from enjoying the activities and places that are part of your life. Bullying happens everywhere, whether it's your town or Paris, France. It happens all the time, and it's happened since forever. Because it's so common, many adults think bullying is just a normal part of growing up. But why should something that can make a person so miserable have to be part of growing up? Let's start by looking at the different kinds of bullying: Physical bullying means: Hitting, kicking, or pushing someone...or even just threatening to do it Stealing, hiding or ruining someone's things Making someone do things he or she don't want to do Verbal bullying means: Name-calling Teasing Insulting Relationship bullying means: Refusing to talk to someone Spreading lies or rumors about someone Making someone do things he or she doesn't want to do What do all these things have in common?
How to lose weight (in the browser)
And what if we got together a bunch of experts who work on large sites to create a definitive front-end performance guide? And not just one of those boring guides made for robots, what if we did something fun? What about getting together Briza Bueno (Americanas.com), Davidson Fellipe (Globo.com), Giovanni Keppelen (ex-Peixe Urbano), Jaydson Gomes (Terra), Marcel Duran (Twitter), Mike Taylor (Opera), Renato Mangini (Google), and Sérgio Lopes (Caelum) to make the best reference possible? That's exactly what we've done! — Zeno Rocha, project lead. Of course it matters and you know it. There are three basic ways for you to include CSS or JavaScript on your page: 1) Inline: the CSS is defined inside a style attribute and the JavaScript inside an onclick attribute for example, in any HTML tag; 2) Embedded: the CSS is defined inside a <style> tag and the JavaScript inside a <script> tag; 3) External: the CSS is loaded from a <link> and the JavaScript from the src attribute of the <script> tag. Bonus
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