[Oe List ...] Salmon: Public School Project

[Elsa Bengel via OE]

So interesting. Thirsty for learning. Remember Friere. When we have a real problem to solve we accelerate learning. Extra-academic reminds me of teaching world geography and eating food, singing a song, learning to say hello, please and thank you in other languages. 
Elsa

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> On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:45 PM, William Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Steve, et al. --
>     Three years ago, I developed a curriculum for Special Education/Behavior Disorder High School students. It is an elaborate plan involving a closed classroom, featuring training of classroom teachers, an isolated camping experience for all involved, a model for a weekly staffing, and an outreach program for parents. This plan assumed that I would administer the program with the goal of teaching the staff the Institute's academic methods and philosophy.  
>     The topic involved current "brain research" highlighting appropriate responses to student classroom behavior. 
>     I'll dig this out and send it on to you.                    
>     The anticipations:   
> 1--The educational cooperative that hires  para-educators assigned their grant writer to develop finances for the project.
> 2--When reality finally broke in, I remembered I was 79 years old and in no position to administer the project, and it was dropped. The interesting thing is that my creditability was never questioned, and I was hired back for the next two years and I anticipate another year's work.
> 3--A follow-up paper was written this last year entitled, "Wounded Birds," that provide extra-academic* methods for identifying classroom behavior.
> 4--A paper is under development as a follow-up to this work entitled, "Is There a Better Way?" Interestingly, the idea was passed along by my academic mentor as teaching teachers to prepare to make students thirsty for what they teach. The subject illustrates extra-academic* teaching methods.
>     Inner Peace,
>     Bill Salmon
> * Extra-academic is meant to convey methods not ordinarily identified with the profession of teaching.
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