Can Teachers Be Taught to Teach Better?

According to Doug Lemov, "teaching is not just instinctive." He believes it to be something that consists of techniques that can be taught. This is why you go to school. You go to learn to become the best teacher you can be. Little lessons help you to improve. In the article, he described a teacher who gave some advice. She said that you should not to do more then one thing when giving directions. It helps the children focus on what your announcing and not zone off. She was right.

You can always be taught to do something better because we are always trying to learn how to be beter people. Teaching is an instinct. Not everyone has the patience to want to help someone, but it is a step-to-step process. Even a teacher is constantly learning from other teachers and students.

Behavior: Napping Can Prime the Brain for Learning

According to the New York Times, "toddlers are not the only ones who do better after an afternoon nap." Research has shown that adults who take a ninety minute nap after lunch raised their learning power. Their memory primed in order for them to retain more information. Apparently, naps do restore your ability to learn. Your brain is a sponge that soaks up more information when it is well rested.



I take a nap practically every single day. An hour nap, or so, gives me the energy boost and motivation to get things done. I can agree with this article. It puts enough logic together to actually make sense. Maybe this is why I do better in my afternoon classes then morning classes. I napped in the beginning to prepare my brain.

$400 Hourly To Get Them Off the Sofa

Susan Dominus, wrote an article about college graduates trying to find a job. Ms. Mitler is hoping to offer a high-end service in a thriving market. For four-hundred dollars an hour, she wants to coach college graduates how to land their first job. It would almost work as a tutoring company. According to Ms. Mitler, parents pay thousands of dollars for their children to attend a college. Now of days, kids can not get jobs after they have graduated. Instead, you'll find that due to not being hired at an early stage, they are sitting on the sofa playing games. What is the point in that? While this tutoring program may be helpful, it may also just be another four hundred dollars gone to waste.

Colleges are meant to prepare you for the job you want. You spend a minimum of two to four years in colleges. Those years of schooling is supposed to be your training. Having an additional program can only cause more stress instead of help. Instead of spending another four hundred dollars, have your children shut down the game system. they need to get ut of the house. The more you apply, the more options you have.

U.S Won't Prosecute in States That Allow Medical Marijuana

Recently, it has been determined that people who use marijuana for medical purposes will not be prosecuted against the law. Provided, they must act accordingly to state law. There are guidelines that the person must follow. Such as they can not have possession of firearms, they can not sell to minors, and can not have evidence of money laundering activity. Although marijuana is legalized for medical use, the government is still against cilvilians using it just to get high. They are still out to catch and fix those issues.

Honestly, if it helps ill people then why can't others have it too? If states fully legalized marijuana for recreational and medical use then they would be able to tax it. The tax on that alone, the legalized distribution of it, would give our country almost enough money to get out of debt. Technically, I have read that it is better then alcohol. You've never heard of an angry high person before. It would be monitered better and people should make their own decisions.

Investigating Tiny Voices at Air Tower

This article, written by Michael Wilson, was very interesting. At Kennedy International Airport, an air traffic controller brought his children to work last month. The United States has a whole day dedicated to taking children to work, but apparently airports will not allow it anymore. The air traffic controller, father, allowed his children to speak over the air to other planes. Their voices were recorded. Nothing was said wrong and the children were told they did a great job by their father. However, the airport thought differently. They are firm believers that children should not be giving orders to other planes. The poor, role model, father is now in big trouble.

There are two easily understandable sides to this story. For one, the father was just being a father. He got his children involved in what he loves and fulfilled their day. As a father, he did an amazing job. As an air traffic controller though, it is looked at completely differently. After all our nation has gone through with plane problems, it is understandable. Although children have loud voices, they do not have certification to control other planes. If the father didn't let other planes know this was taken place, then things could have gotten mistaken. I belive that he was a good father, but he should have seeked permission from his higher-ups first.

"When is Spanking Child Abuse?"

On October 21, 2008, Lisa Belkin, wrote an article about when it is okay to allow child abuse. The article involved a man hitting his twelve-year-old son with a wooden paddle. The father didn't like that his son was lying to him and decided to take action. The son was sent to the hospital with bruises, but none of them showed that he was in terrible pain. They took the family to court and the son claimed that he was wrong for lying. He announced that a child who is wrong needs to face their consequences. He also claimed that he loves his father and they were both crying while he was being beaten.

Lisa Belkin is baffled over when deciding to hit a child is right though. While some people believe that hitting children fixes the issue, others believe that it is morally wrong. It has been a compelling controversy for years. Schools have banned smacking with rulers, but homes have not banned hitting completely.

Sometimes things fire up in the heat of the moment. Although the parent should always be the level headed one, things happen, and every one does make mistakes. I think it is wrong to hit a child though. There are better ways to teach and show that they are wrong then physically causing harm. That only scares the child away and makes them hide more.

High in Caffeinem Monks' Wine Packs Punch for Scots

On February 4th, Sarah Lyall wrote an article for the New York Times about alcohol and the issues it has been causing in Scotland. According to her information, the wine "Buckfast" is beginning to cause an uprise in the area. Buckfast is considered to be a reginonal favorite of most Scots. The drink contains fifteen percent alcohol, is a bit stronger then most wines, and contains the most caffeine. The people studying the wine, believe that the fights going on at bars are due to the high caffeine and alcohol percentage. Scotland's government believes that their health, social, and productivity issues are all due to the "Buckfast" wine while others believe it is not the wine's fault.

Bars and alcohol stores are filled up with many different bottles of liquid with different tastes. They all vary in the amount of alcohol per volume and caffeine amount. Although the wine may affect your energy level, I believe that selfcontrol still exists. It is not the wine companies fault for the issues that Scotland has been faced with. Instead of banning the popular drink, the governement should stress more selfcontrol. A drink is just a drink. It doesn't punch people at bars, only humans do that on their own. As a person, you can control how much you comsume so that your liver does not explode. As for the productivity issues, if each person is more responsible with their drinking problem then Scotland won't be smacked with costly misuse rates.

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Nikki Aronowitz
English- 122
In the Thursday paper, of the New York Times, I read an article on a teenage killing. “Third Trial in a Teenager’s Killing Takes a Toll on Both Sides”, was written by Sam Dolnick. It was about a young boy, Quindel Francis, who was sixteen when he committed his first murder. He had been having problems with a former classmate, Fernando Corea, for a long time. They both played football for their high school together. Eventually Francis met up with Corea on a street to make peace when a gun slipped out of his waistband and killed Corea. Corea’s family now wants to find justice in the case. Francis has been put into jail for five years so far and is still facing trials for the death of a schoolmate. The memories of what happened that terrible day are now being questioned.
Francis claims that the shooting was accidental; however the Corea family believes that it was on purpose. Now that it has been about five years later, it is hard to determine who exactly is right in this case. The attorneys are digging through information in past trials and events to find the correct answer.

Things happen for reasons that sometimes we can’t understand until later on. At the age of sixteen, we don’t concentrate on every move we make as children. Carrying a gun on Francis’s waistband didn’t seem like a big deal until it was triggered. That mistake of having it on him has cost him a good amount of his life. Although the Corea family wants justice for what has happened to their son, there are other ways to punish Francis. Now that he is twenty-one years old, he is wiser and hopefully grown into a better person.