Pencil sharpener

focus on pleasing the teacher and only doing as asked I had forgotten about my humanity and role to be there for the students. Chloe was frequently distracted, needing a sip of water from her tiny tightly-sealed Costco water bottle, a manual pencil sharpener, a trip to the bathroom, towels to…

The Fault in the Mental Health System Mental health issues effect more lives than a murder. They can effect grandfathers, grandmothers, mothers, fathers, siblings, and friends. A person with a mental illness, does not choose their disease, symptoms, job loss, burden to family members, or actions including murder. There has been an increase in attention towards the faults in America’s metal health care with the horrific acts of mass violence. Institutions were destroyed after the truth of the…

Introduction With one Educational Studies course and a positive field placement experience completed, I believed that I was ready for anything that Child Study and Assessment could throw at me. This field placement, however, is much different than I anticipated. My responsibilities for this field placement are two-fold. Most importantly, as aforementioned, I am to supplement my student, Michael’s [pseudonym], learning by bringing activities that interested him. Additionally, using in-class…

allow oneself to be discriminated against. For example, right- versus left-handed individuals. One experiment has participants completely eliminating use of the dominant hand, in this case the right hand. From technology (i.e. mouse) to schools (pencil sharpeners), discrimination occurs in very small but noticeable ways when those who are discriminated against experience them. Having to switch dominant hands is very frustrating and almost discouraging. While some have learned to adapt to this…

Classroom arrangement is a crucial part in having an effective classroom management. A classroom arrangement allows the teacher to observe, walk around, and help their students throughout the day in the classroom. Having an inefficient classroom arrangement allows time for students to become off task, disruptive, and to get up from their seats to wander around the classroom. Creating a layout that is efficient and easy to move around in allows students to learn, and participate more effectively.…

“Turn that music down. I thought you were doing your homework!” Perhaps you have heard or said this before. Those who listen to music while they do homework believe music helps them concentrate. This debate has been repeated over and over, but the real question is, does music actually help you concentrate or not? Researchers have divided it into five different categories, neuropathy, synapse, demographic, music, and musical genre. Each category is important in the debate of music and…

ability to go to school and gain an education. In this project, we collected and fundraised for school supplies including pencils, pens, erasers, and sharpeners. We collected these supplies throughout three neighbourhoods and fundraised by baking brownies and cookies. After this, we were able to make 50 bags and each bag had seven pencils, two erasers, one ruler, four pencil crayons, four markers, and two pens. This project was such an amazing project as it allowed us to raise enough supplies to…

Since I was a young child, teachers have been prepping my peers and I for the next step of school. From elementary school, we were taught how to act for middle school. From middle school, we were taught how to act for high school. In high school, we were told frequently "no one is going to hold your hand in college." What is this for? Why do these teachers put us students in this position where we expect the next step in our life to be horrible? We bite our nails to the bone in anticipation for…

Her perky alert nipples stand hard like two pink Bisoprolol pills. Her Kawaii shaped viridian eyes will end up staring at me with a concurrent void of intimacy and distance, when it's time to Man yoghurt on her phizog. Her Cupid- bow lips joined by ridges of a defined philtrum, which I'm intimately acquainted with by all measures of fellatio, although never shared a husband's peck that's systematically planted on a wife's ever increasing flabby cheek; when leaving for the good-old nine to five.…

cutting provided temporary relief from my anxieties, anxieties that I was hardly able to comprehend. A twelve-year-old is not supposed to hate themselves or be crippled by their own sadness, and yet at that time I was unscrewing the blades off pencil sharpeners anyways. For a large portion of my life I was not sure what had happened to me and why I was the way I was so early in my adolescence. This uncertainty drove my passion for learning, for understanding. And while all subjects hold…