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What You Can Learn from my PLN Quiz #5 (July 9th) – Teaching Village — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:03:46 +0000

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Why Recognition Matters – Teaching Village — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:08:00 +0000

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By: Melania

Melania — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:56:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Deven

The class you have is not your fault but it becomes your problem to solve as soon as that class has been assigned to you, I’ll have to agree with you on that… Here’s a Romanian proverb: “You may be held responsible for your friends – you chose them! You can’t be held responsible for your relatives – God gave them to you!”. For us, teachers, classes/students are like relatives/family… and putting up with them becomes our problem…

By: Deven Black

Deven Black — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:27:40 +0000

Thank you for reminding me of something very important that I, even in my sixth year, sometimes forget (oddly enough, also when dealing with 8th graders). I would love to have a class that is so attentive to each other that they are able to contradict what one of their classmates say. That I don’t have a class like that is my fault and my problem to solve, not my students’ problem.

By: Melania

Melania — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:43:13 +0000

Thank you for the opportunity you offered me, Barb! I was honoured by your invitation to write for the Teaching Village and I am happy to have added Romania to your list of nationalities meeting in your cosmopolitan ‘village’!

I’m glad you liked my story and you’re right, it doesn’t focus on me but on the relationship between any teacher and their students and on how fortunate I consider myself to have such an intelligent, gifted and creative colleague. She makes me see the future of teaching English in my country in brighter colours.

Congratulations for your blog and all your work! You are an inspiration to me! Thank you again!

All the best to you!

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By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:04:28 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Melania, this is beautiful. This is one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen about the relationship between respect and classroom behavior.

Thank you for giving us a chance to listen in as you helped your colleague find her own answer–I can see why you’re such a powerful teacher educator!