Category Archives: Practice of teaching

Rescuing a Child by Stopping Labeling

“Labeling” is a well known concept in social-pyschology. Apparently not very well known in education. Or known in reverse.

Today, please consider one of my other victory stories. I saved a child. He was labelled as “bad.” I don’t know why. He was being hounded by his first grade teacher. What stories! And was being treated like he was recalcitrant and behind. He was not. He was acting normal, but he was bored — because he was extra bright.

I was Academic Dean. I was in the classroom helping a new to the school but experienced teacher. Thank God, I saw what as going on!

Let’s not leave it at one child rescued academically — and surely you know a bright 7 year old boy, labelled as bad would end up with behavior problems. The juvenile halls are filled with “learning disabled” boys! Let’s learn how to avoid these problems.

Let’s be sure our children, and our students are labeled. And let’s reform teaching all together — but that will be another book and another episode.

The power of words. No where more powerful than in the ears of a young child!

Contact me for help to start a school

Contact me for help to start a school. I will help you start a micro-school.  Maybe you need just a conversation for encouragement. Maybe you need a short course. Most want a map and some hand holding for a year, along with some sample documents for parent and employee policies.

Also see www.teachachildchangeanation.org  for more information about a micro-school and for a course in how to start a licensed childcare facility — yes, in any state.

The first lessons help you discover if your building is sufficient and tell you how to sell this to your church congregation, if that is necessary. If your building is not sufficient and you want to cancel the course, you can.

There are ways to have smaller schools in your own home. Much less restrictions for elementary school.

If you are a graduate from homeschooling your children or grandchildren, you may be the ideal person to start a micro-school or pod. If you have taught in the government system and are a certified teacher, please do not sally forth, thinking  you can start a school. You have been trained in foolishness, in invidious expectations, and do not necessarily have any expertise in business or management. Please spend at least 3 years in getting a better education about children and civics and education.

Sharon Sarles info@orgstrat.net  also see my consulting site: www.orgstrat.net

How to OVERCOME Test Anxiety

Contrary to the false charity folks (read deceptive communist controllists) we OVERCOME  — or solve problems. So, yes, some student exhibit test anxiety. Better to overcome test anxiety than to spin the yarn that this in a disability that can not be helped and therefore the student should not be expected to learn Math. Good way to induce a problem, and then cement it, and then cause a ruined life and worse off society. No, these problems can be solved — one way or another. If there is a will.

Of course, yes, some of the solution might cause adults to work, or conversely, not get paid quite so much for not working. Still, let’s solve the problem.

She Was NOT “Kicked Out” of Class — How to Handle Controversy in College

Keying off a post on X.com that sparked a big controversy about ideological indoctrination in colleges and universities, I teach you how to handle controversies in class as a college student. I also expose the trickery in this particular post and how the controversy got sparked. I even give you some tips about how to be effective in the controversy about sexualization and leftist indoctrination in college.Charlie Kirk was effective because he was truthful and knowlegable.

NOTICE AND AVOID DISTRACTION THAT DETRACTS FROM YOUR LIFE

Some people want to make hay by … spin. Other want to pick our pockets or worse while distracting us by getting us to fight with each other. Find out how to avoid this.

So, the incident a couple of weeks ago claimed that a student was kicked out of class for refusing to go along with sexual indoctrination. Actually what the video showed was the professor agreeing to let the student leave, after the student makes some outrageously ignorant comments. She was not kicked out. We don’t have enough of the video to actually know the professor was up to.  What we do hear is not adept, but without context we can not judge that she was indoctrinating the student. Maybe she was, but everyone in the story handled themselves badly.

HERE IS HOW TO PROCEED IN A MORE EFFECTIVE MANNER

Here is how to do better.

Controversy is a must as a subject in college. It is a must because one will face societal controversies when one graduates and becomes a professional. Perhaps that is what the university president meant to say. We don’t know. What we know are a very few words, again, taken out of context. Not a good look.

Just like the student didn’t seem to know the rules of the game of college classroom, so the politician didn’t seem to know the rules of the game about college administration. The college president has no control, or shouldn’t, over the teaching in the classroom.  We already had ongoing controversies about academic freedom and tenure. The politician who started this might indeed know the game of political “gotcha” with regard to media. That is not how we want to controvert issues, not how we want to be lead, and certainly not the kind of character we want to govern.

Let’s get into it.

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Related to this episode,please notice my book on how to not lose your faith while in college.

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Also, a teaching series on how to teach (whether your children or your students) in these dangerous times. It is an exegesis of 2 Timothy 1 and 2.  Go to shop. Notice we have a sale.