http://teach4peace.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Writing my resume makes me red in the face. Going on interviews gives me the shakes. Looking for jobs makes me a big basket case. http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/03/05/job-search-anxiety/ Lately I have been struggling with the dichotomy of technology versus nature.  I am in a school that was founded on Outward Bound's Expeditionary Learning program.  The school itself and my cooperating teacher strongly believe that students need to have as many learning experiences in the outdoors as possible.  I ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/02/29/technology-vs-nature/ I want to use blogging and wikis in the classroom but the district blocks everything.  If anyone out there is interested in telling me their success stories of how they got around district firewalls, I would greatly appreciate the advice.  Also, I am looking for new and innovative ways to ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/blog-blog-blogging/ Why is it that I feel funny having people in my daily life read my blog but am fine with allowing thousands of perfect strangers read my inner thoughts? Okay, maybe I am over-estimating that thousands of people are reading my blog but please just entertain me for ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/blogging-incognito/ I have often wondered how to open my students minds to the many religions of the world.  It is often a difficult subject to discuss in a classroom, not wanting to offend anyone.  Today, I was witness to a fantastic discussion of religion with 4th and 5th graders.  They were ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/01/30/religion-in-the-classroom/ This was a question posed to our class by a professor the other day. Is social justice a set of specific values that people hold? Should they try to push "values" of social justice on other people? Does it have a place in our schools? Should students be made to ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/01/29/what-is-social-justice/ I am excited every day the kids begin arriving in the morning. I get so much energy from them. There were moments halfway through my cert program when I questioned if I was in fact doing the right thing. Do I really have what it takes to educate future citizens? ... http://teach4peace.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/a-step-and-then-anotherand-another/