<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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. </div><div>Elsa<br><br>Sent from my iPhone <div>617.359.6807</div></div><div><br>On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:45 PM, William Salmon <<a href="mailto:wsalmon@cox.net">wsalmon@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Steve, <em>et al. --</em></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> 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. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> The topic involved current
"brain research" highlighting appropriate responses to student classroom
behavior. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I'll dig this out and send it on
to
you. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> The
anticipations: </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">1--The educational cooperative that hires
para-educators assigned their grant writer to develop finances for the project.
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">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 antic</font><font size="2" face="Arial">ipate another year's work. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">3--A follow-up paper was written this last year
entitled, "Wounded Birds," that provide extra-academic* methods for identifying
classroom behavior.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">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 <em>thirsty for what they teach. </em>The subject illustrates
extra-academic* teaching methods. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Inner Peace, </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Bill Salmon</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">* <em>Extra-academic</em> is meant to convey
methods not ordinarily identified with the profession of
teaching.</font></div></font></div>
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