Hello Five Readers (more or less!) -
My 8 week vacation is drawing to a close and I am back in my classroom trying to ready myself for ~200 freshmen on Monday. These same students have been on break while I was on-break so we are back to "it" in a few days. LIFE SKILLS, what's that? The course I teach use to be called Education and Career Planning (ECP) but it was renamed circa 1999 to Life Skills for the Twenty-First Century. Initially with the name change came in-service trainings about how to teach Ethics and Morality. Some teachers embraced it and went for the whole 5 week package of lessons, me, not so much. Generally it's one week with 4-5 lesson plans but then reminded and referred back to when we moved on.
Unfortunately, while I was on vacation there was a number of horrible incidents involving teen bullying and subsequent suicides. Generally these have been middle school and high school but one well known incident was at Rutgers University on the East Coast. While I don't see much bullying or teasing it has to exist on this and every campus. I have an article ready to go but haven't developed questions yet to go with it. Will probably do that in the next day or two. My next post will let you know how it went. In the meantime, let's all PREACH TOLERANCE!
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