Desks

The role of the student in the RTI change initiative was very limited. The pupils selected for intervention could not choose whether or not to take these classes. Though test scores were consulted, students, themselves, were not consulted during the planning or implementation of the initiative. Students were merely “potential beneficiaries of change” (Fullan, 2006, p. 170). As beneficiaries, these learners were only to be engaged as recipients of the remediation services being offered to…

Card It is an average day at Cumberland Elementary; my face warms from the sun gleaming through the windows, and I sit in my desk in Mrs. Huffman’s second grade classroom. It is a rather cheerful classroom; chairs of all different vibrant colors stationed at each desk, my own being purple. A cushy rug with a checkered pattern displaying the alphabet fills space between the desks and the chalkboard. The wall to my left has the sticker board marking how many teeth each student has lost. I had six…

Over thousands of years, intellectuals have presented their viewpoints on the guidelines of human existence. The Age of Enlightenment, hence the name, was a time of new thoughts, ingenuity, and a stronger understanding of the universe. In his The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), author William Blake attempts to defy the teachings of an Anglican Church—which he believes has become far too corrupt to impose its authority on the laity of England. One of Blake’s aphorisms states that: “What is…

Productivity is often a term I think about in an individual sense, but after reading Joshua Rothman’s article,“Big Data Comes to the Office”, I have learned that it has more to do with collaboration than I ever expected. In the piece, he describes how an MIT computer scientist helped to discover that people work more effectively when they are allowed to communicate. He writes, “Pentland found that, of the four twenty-person teams he tracked, the ones with the fastest “average call handling…

“When someone touches my phone, I automatically turn into a ninja.” While in math class, I learned never to leave my phone sitting on the edge of the desk or it might get knocked off. One day while in math class I had my phone sitting out on my desk doing homework. I was working on an equation when someone put a box on my desk and knocked my phone off. I watched as it fell onto the ground. My phone landed on the leg of the chair face down. Cautiously, I bent over to pick it up. As a result of…

the base of them to avoid making that terrible scratching noise that everyone hates. In some classroom students have a regular desk. In Mrs. Wallach’s classroom, the desks are regular and Mrs. Hriniak’s classroom has desks that are more table like as if they once had belonged inside of a science lab. Of course the desks are oriented facing the board with the teacher’s desk off to the side or in the…

or other containers, with the price marked on each. A customer, on entering the shop, was provided with a wire basket, and having selected from the shelves the articles which he wished to buy, he put them in the basket and took them to the cashier's desk at one or other of the two exits, whore the cashier stated the total price and received payment. That latter stage of every transaction involving the sale of a drug was supervised by the pharmacist in control of the department, who was…

their desks. They will work in small group activities sometimes just in their surrounding areas which is 4 or 5 desks by each other. He talks very soft, which is how he keeps the room so quiet and mellow. When he has the students break off into doing their own assignments, he will go back to his desk and have a few students go back there with him to work on something together. Everyone feels safe and accepted all of the time because everyone is allowed to engage in everything, and the desks are…

office of Nursing Support and Float pool for both of the hospitals. I do the staffing and handle sick calls right next to the Patient Placement office. The Patient Placement people use three desks, two of them are right by each other with the third desk off to the side. They have phones on their desks and computers. Their…

He looks towards his typewriter that is illuminated by a single lamp with balled-up failed attempts that scatter his desk and floor; a picture of a woman on the beach hangs above the desk; a fan oscillates behind a large book by W.P Mayhew. The camera tracks in towards the desk and the picture, sort of beckoning Barton towards his typewriter. He sits at his desk, a hand under his chin, his eyes darting along the page on his typewriter almost in contempt. Note that Barton is dressed in a…