February 2012
20 posts
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How I Flirted with another Teacher Today
I told kids to chase her instead of me. She told them to chase me in return. We proceeded to send a few kids back and forth for about three minutes.
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I just wrote a paper for one of my classes on a person I met on Tumblr. I think I deserve a cookie, however, that person probably should be awarded lots of Orange Juice from me for allowing me the honor of writing about them.
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Touching
When teaching children or really any age-range of people, the use of touch or lack thereof is an effective way to show approval, understanding, or means by which to regaining one’s attention. Touching an individual under certain circumstances is appropriate and in other instances is not. Touching someone is almost never referred to as “touching,” unless that is by a child. The...
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Humans are 'naturally nice' →
This fills with hope hope and happiness.
So guess what this guy just found out?
My family will be moving to New Mexico at the end of June for many reasons, mostly financial, and if you have a NM driver’s license and therefore are a resident you can go to the University of New Mexico for free, after paying for the first semester, until you get your Bachelor’s degree. I almost feel like not submitting my applications now. I will submit them, after spending $400 and...
Why Down Syndrome Is on the Decline →
positivelypersistentteach:
itssnix:
Disabilities are not the enemy.
Wow.
Empathy Test →
msjennyanthem:
mikemussinastractors:
partypenguin:
sherlockstark:
wyndampryces:
0 - 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20) 33 - 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42) 53 - 63 is above average 64 - 80 is very high 80 is maximum
Your score: 28
i got 36
hm
37. Meh.
20.
Strange since my mother thinks...
Anonymous asked: 2, 7, 10, 13, 15
Anonymous asked: 12, 17, 19
TMI Tuesday
buddhistintraining:
1. The meaning behind my URL 2. Weakness 3. Why I love my bestfriend 4. Last time I cried and why 5. Piercings I have 6. Favorite Band 7. Biggest turn off(s) 8. Top 5 (insert subject) 9. Tattoos I want 10. Biggest turn on(s) 11. Age 12. Ideas of a perfect date 13. Life goal(s) 14. Piercings I want 15. Relationship status 16. Favorite movie 17. A fact about my life 18. Phobia...
Fun, Fearless, Female.: "Just" a preschool teacher →
auntkiki:
“Before you start to judge pre-school teachers, realize that you have put your prized treasure in our hands. Your children are the nation’s future. The people you degrade are the very people who fill the hearts of your children with compassion, love and joy. These people whom you frown upon are…
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Early childhood teachers: why are they being... →
stiffanie:
“We don’t do it for the money. We do it because we see children like no else does, for their potential.”
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A Director or just a teacher?
“Hey Kyle, so are you going to open up a child care center?”
“What?”
“Are you going to open up a child care center?”
“Uh, I don’t know that’s a lot of work. I just want to get a degree right now and then figure everything else out.”
This happened today, but somehow every Early Childhood Education major, 99% of whom are women in my...
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If I had to pick my three favorite points about...
1) The look of astonishment on a child’s face when they do something they never thought was possible.
2) The conversations about anything and everything, in real and made-up languages.
3) The hugs.
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The Quiet Teacher?
During a workshop on Desired Results Developmental Profiles, mentor Director lady brought up a quote about teaching, “The quiet teacher wasn’t a good teacher for the loud and rowdy students because she couldn’t understand them, but give her a quiet child and she was the best teacher that child could hope for.”
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about that quote lately...
January 2012
30 posts
diaryofahumanbeing asked: challenge accepted.... #11 & #15... favorite material items, & reason you started Tumblr :]
STOP STEM CELLS EXPERIMENT ON DEAF BABIES →
thesedeafeyes:
ewitty:
[Click the link above to sign the petition]
We, the People of the United States of America, strongly condemn the FDA’s decision to allow Cord Blood Registry® and the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital to conduct stem cell experimentation on Deaf newborns and infants (6 weeks old to 18 months old). We strongly consider this experiment to be inhumane and unethical and...
I’ll take, “want to curl up in bed and cry my eyes out” for 500, Alex. This shall be my last depressing, self-pity post for at least tree weeks or that’s the goal.
Going to a Deaf event and nervous because I don’t want to see ex-potential girlfriend. If I do I’m probably going straight home. That is all.
Also, I should really start doing education posts again. Noted.
Foul-mouthed liberty: Guns & kids →
foulmouthedliberty:
I don’t know how much of this is socialized (although this is Idaho, so probably a lot), but I have noticed that boys will turn anything into a play gun. I don’t allow toy weapons in my preschool, and I don’t let them play wars or battles. But the boys are downright ingenious. I’ve seen them…
It is very common with all boys for probably at least for the last hundred...
keenasayslumos:
Something I REALLY need to talk about:
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Thank you! Thank you for being a caring person in the sea of self-absorbed jerkbags out there. I had a pretty bad day and this really made me feel better. I’ve never really communicated with you but I appreciate your thoughts, Doctor Who reblogs, and even the torrent of nature spam, because nature is beautiful. Anyways,...
kicksandgiggles asked: 22, 35, 41, 45 Ready.... go! :)
anonymously or not put a number in my ask. →
kanzakijun:
1) Was your last real relationship a mistake? 2) Do you have a good relationship with your parents? 3) Who did you last say “I love you” to? 4) Do you regret anything? 5) Do you have nicknames? If so, what are they? 6)Are you insecure? 7) What is your relationship status? 8) Do you have an attitude? 9) Do you like someone? 10) Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? 11) Do you hate anyone...
Emotional Kyle is not allowed to drive
Also, Barnes and Noble has been cancelled as such.
Barnes and Noble then gym to try to get over this on three?
Reasons why relationship is over
She is:
Busy with work
Family and friend issues
They are actually real reasons so I can’t be upset about them. I’m alive, life goes on.
Operation Sneak Surprise Attack
has been cancelled. Potential Girlfriend and potential relationship have also been cancelled. I think this is the least emotional I have ever felt after this kind of thing.
Either tonight or tomorrow
I was suppose to go out with potential girlfriend (I think I shall now change this nickname but not sure what to; I’ll get back with that later), but she is going to be watching her nephews the whole weekend so she wants a rain check. Operation Sneak Surprise Attack commences at roughly 1400 hours tomorrow! Not sure what it entails besides me showing up and signing with her for a few minutes...
reasons i am a teacher:
elliotthebrave:
normal people are afraid of me, while kids find me hilarious.
Would anyone even believe me if I cited this as a true statement for me?
So I fell on the floor
frakenrackel:
How did Helen Keller’s parents punish her?
They moved the furniture.
How did Helen Keller’s parents really punish her?
They hung bowling balls from the ceiling.
How did Helen Keller’s parents really really punish her?
They left the plunger in the toilet.
This is not funny at all. This is downright horrible and in turn, you are a horrible person for posting this. Please...
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Preschool Moments #1
I came in early today and got to see half the children in my main class (right now it is inter-session and classes are merged and I work the afternoon instead of morning). So I walked in and sat down at circle time as different lead teacher is trying to read a story. All of my children recognize me, keep staring at me, and want to give me hugs, totally not overstating this either. One child, H,...
Deaf Aspie: Reblog if you think this should happen... →
deaf-aspie:
The establishment of some sort of tag mod or comptroller to remove offending posts from the “Deaf” tag, in the vein of what happened in the “History” tag.
Said person or people wouldn’t remove the tag from the posts — only from the public queue of the tag itself, as to keep the space safe.
The…
deaf-aspie:
andromedalogic:
can we make it a common idea that a non-autistic person calling an autistic person ‘high-functioning’ is roughly equivalent, in terms of appropriateness and respect, to a white person calling a black person ‘articulate’
Yes.
All of my heart goes right here.
Tumblr is crashing/timing out on only one of my...
the education one and OCD is making this really difficult.
EDIT: directly after I posted this it stopped happening. Stop trolling me Tumblr!
lindsaygrace asked: TMI Tuesday- I'm curious as to what that girl you were starting to date/see wanted to talk to you about after New Years...you seemed stressed on it and typically that phrase from girls is not a good indicator of a positive conversation lol
So my Internal Anxiety Boy
was completely wrong and I feel utterly dumbfounded.
Goals
Transfer to another college
Learn more ASL
Be happy
Think less, act more
Be happy
Inspiration in the Last Place You Look
(Whilst cleaning the tables at my part time job, a random old lady walks in, stops, and looks at me for a couple of seconds before saying)
Random Lady: Are you happy?
Me: *Stares at woman blankly, trying to decide if she means right at the moment, in general, working there, or what*
Random Lady: I mean are you really happy?
Me: Yeah I'm ok. *I was actually lying because I had been having a rough week*
Random Lady: You know the best advice I ever got? One thing that saved my life? Well I used to be depressed, on medication, in and out of rehab, I wanted to die. Then one day a person came up to me, and they said "If you really WANT to be happy, then just BE happy". I took that on, I started really being happy, looking at the positive. I'm off my meds, been sobre for years, and I am happy.
(This lady made my day, and often when I'm feeling down for an extended period of time, I remember what she told me "If you want to be happy, then be happy", and the world seems a bit brighter.)