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February 01, 2005
NCCAT
We began the day with a school wide video to address the issue of bullying among young people. It was a very strong subject matter in the video but it did deliver a significant message. There was a good deal of discussion on the issue and each student took a 6-page survey (which I spent the better part of the rest of the day tallying up) on his or her own experiences. I believe the students took their survey pretty seriously and really poured themselves into it. Over the next six weeks we will conduct several classroom activities that will further explore this idea and search for solutions.
I also brought in a “different” kind of lesson for the students to participate in. A friend of mine from Wilson has a 14-year-old daughter who is working on a science fair project. She prepared an iMovie of several forty-five second driving scenes around Wilson, NC. The students watched the clips with the instructions to “pay attention”. Sometimes I wonder why I even say it. :-) There is a simple twenty-question test the kids took immediately after. Simple questions about items they should have observed during the video. Needless to say, the scores ranged from 15 to a high score of 60! Yes 60 out of 100. In case you wondered if they were really paying attention to all these things you tell them, here is your proof – Nope.
I will be out of the classroom the rest of this week at a workshop at NCCAT in Cullowee, NC. The Gathering of Holocaust Educators is a chance for me to share a couple of highly effective lessons I have conducted with my classes since last school year when I was chosen to spend a week at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Besides being able to share my lessons, I get an amazing opportunity to learn from some of the best educators in North Carolina. I will try to post the best of things from NCCAT as the week progresses. I know the kids are begging for snow, but let it hold off until first of next week so I can learn a lot for them and get home. If you need to reach me, please feel free to email. I will check it regularly.
Posted by hlperson at February 1, 2005 09:24 AM
Comments
Have a good time at NCCAT (affectionately referred to literally as "N-CAT")
I uploaded the presentation PDF by secure FTP (I can show you how to do this, it's easy), and I created a quick image file as your "proof". It shows the mean, median and number of test-takers by sex and age for your class.
Posted by: Alvin Phillips at February 2, 2005 09:19 AM
Mr. Person, thank you for addressing the issue of bullying. Keep up the great work. Oh, I hope that you can get home from your trip safely, however, LET IT SNOW!!!!!!!! :-)
Posted by: Kyle's Mom and Dad at February 2, 2005 06:06 PM
I think that the people who bully are very mean and disrespectful to other kids that go nuts when there bullied by peolpe who are bigger. I also think that bullying is stupid because you just bully other kids because you want to be so mean! I think they should quit and get on with their life and DON'T RUIN SOMEONE ELSES LIFE!!!
Posted by: Patrick Langley at February 5, 2005 11:37 AM