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Privateer
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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:43 am Post subject: Teaching not to bully |
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Cedar used to post on here and now she's written a good article on teaching kids to be kind to the weak:
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/ethical-use-power-children-0222124/
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| �So now, why do people want to be kind? What do you get out of being kind?� �It feels better. They be kind back to us. I liked teaching my little brother. You get a reward. I feel happy. God knows about it.� I think these sixth graders in Indonesia understood the basics about the power differential, and I look forward to finding naturally emerging ways to build on this. Ethical and wise use of power is a universally important topic. |
More worthwhile than the average English lesson, I think. |
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Unibrow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Bullying is a part of life. Some bullying goes way too far and needs to be taken care of. But the world is not always a kind place. People pick on the weak and socially awkward after their school days. Bullying shouldn't be encouraged, but it's a normal thing that people should experience. |
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s.tickbeat
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Location: Gimhae
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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My own best anti-bullying tactic is to call it what is it - to students, adults, whatever. When you don't have time to explain why behavior can be hurtful, a simple 'that's sexism and it is unacceptable in the classroom' will work wonders.
Against other expats, it's also hugely effective.
http://education.illinois.edu/edpsy/documents/EdWkBeyondBullyPrevEspelage.pdf
Also, read that. ^ |
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Kimchifart
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching not to bully |
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| Privateer wrote: |
Cedar used to post on here and now she's written a good article on teaching kids to be kind to the weak:
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/ethical-use-power-children-0222124/
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| �So now, why do people want to be kind? What do you get out of being kind?� �It feels better. They be kind back to us. I liked teaching my little brother. You get a reward. I feel happy. God knows about it.� I think these sixth graders in Indonesia understood the basics about the power differential, and I look forward to finding naturally emerging ways to build on this. Ethical and wise use of power is a universally important topic. |
More worthwhile than the average English lesson, I think. |
These are not my people; an outsider cannot change the culture in schools and society here. We are metics, we are not citizens. |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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God has no place in 'mainstream' education - end of  |
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The Cosmic Hum
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Lucas wrote: |
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God has no place in 'mainstream' education - end of |
Yeah...that is a good point.
Once proselytizing enters the equation, education exits. |
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tardisrider
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| Lucas wrote: |
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| God knows about it |
God has no place in 'mainstream' education - end of |
Yeah...that is a good point.
Once proselytizing enters the equation, education exits. |
I agree in large part, but the quote about god (from the article) is simply coming from something that one of the children said; it's not any indication of proselytizing or of religious indoctrination on the part of the teacher. |
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lithium
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| Lucas wrote: |
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| God knows about it |
God has no place in 'mainstream' education - end of |
Yeah...that is a good point.
Once proselytizing enters the equation, education exits. |
Look at the state of the educational system in America since He was removed. Could there be a correlation? |
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The Cosmic Hum
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| tardisrider wrote: |
| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| Lucas wrote: |
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God has no place in 'mainstream' education - end of |
Yeah...that is a good point.
Once proselytizing enters the equation, education exits. |
I agree in large part, but the quote about god (from the article) is simply coming from something that one of the children said; it's not any indication of proselytizing or of religious indoctrination on the part of the teacher. |
Oops...I think you're right...good call. |
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The Cosmic Hum
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Look at the state of the educational system in America since He was removed. Could there be a correlation? |
There could be...and?
Look at the state of the world since they didn't put Me in charge.
Could there be a correlation? |
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fermentation
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jonpurdy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| A truly effective teacher can add social justice into any strand. Having students attempt to communicate their thoughts on bullying is a great way to use their English and hit the social justice piece at the same time. Plus, it's more interesting than the regular stuff from the textbooks. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:10 am Post subject: Re: Teaching not to bully |
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| Kimchifart wrote: |
| Privateer wrote: |
Cedar used to post on here and now she's written a good article on teaching kids to be kind to the weak:
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/ethical-use-power-children-0222124/
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| �So now, why do people want to be kind? What do you get out of being kind?� �It feels better. They be kind back to us. I liked teaching my little brother. You get a reward. I feel happy. God knows about it.� I think these sixth graders in Indonesia understood the basics about the power differential, and I look forward to finding naturally emerging ways to build on this. Ethical and wise use of power is a universally important topic. |
More worthwhile than the average English lesson, I think. |
These are not my people; an outsider cannot change the culture in schools and society here. We are metics, we are not citizens. |
If you see bullying in your classroom, you should do something about it, end of story. As a teacher in the classroom, metic or no, you represent authority and it is important that authority be moral. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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Metic. I just learned a new word I'd never heard before (thanks!) & it comes remarkably close to much about the longterm expat situation in Korea presently. History, like a merry-go-round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metic
Also, the article linked by the OP strikes me as fresh & thoughtful. |
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