Schoolhouses

Auvriana Novelllo was setting up the desks in her little one room schoolhouse in the country with a brand new notebook and a newly sharpened pencil it wasn 't often that there were one room schoolhouses anymore, but she just now moved away from her parents and their rules to a rural town in Maine that didn 't have a school. Well at least not until now. She thought about how well she would do without her parents being around her all the time. She was her own person, she was 20 after all. As she finished up the last few touches on her classroom she looked around and began to dream about the many things she would do here. She sat down at her very own teachers desk and closed her eyes, she was finally on her own, her schoolhouse was finished, lessons were planned and now all she had to do was wait and dream. A…

Dr. Ellis Ford Hartford (1905-present) is a 1947 graduate of the University of Kentucky, former Dean of the University school, and Dean of the community college system. Hartford began his education at Kentucky Wesleyan but after an injury pertaining to sports he decided to drop school and begin working at an oil refinery near Hammond and Gary, Indiana. Not long after he’d begun, he decided to instead move back to Kentucky where he received his teaching certificate at the Bowling Green State…

The one-room schoolhouse is a phenomenon impacting today’s modern school system. Historic schooling required the teacher to be in complete control over their student’s educational experiences. Curriculum design, instructional implantation, and classroom management were the sole responsibility of the classroom teacher. Opportunities to collaborate, problem solve, retain essential feedback from other individuals in the field of education was minimal. Unfortunately, this type of educational…

In David Laskin novel “The Children's Blizzard” he divulges many stories of the citizens who survived during the blizzard of 1888. On January 12, 1888 a monstrosity blizzard struck the Dakota territories and the surrounding states. With this in mind in took three minutes the temperature dropped 18 degrees and after an hour the wind chill dropped 40 below zero. There was no dire to the towns because settlers were too far from the telegraph wires to receive any messages. To demonstrate something…

One Room Schoolhouse In the 19th and 20th century, most American students had attended a one room schoolhouse. The teachers would have grades kindergarten through eighth grade. The largest number of students that showed up at a one room schoolhouse was 40 students. The history of the one room schoolhouse includes one room schoolhouses in the modern times, one room schoolhouses in today’s times, How are modern times and today’s times different, what was it like with one teacher and grades…

“This story starts with one student and one teacher.” That is how Salman Khan starts his book The One Room Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined. One student and one teacher. Khan himself, of course, is the teacher. The student is his cousin Nadia, a bright, motivated twelve-year-old. Nadia believed that she was bad at math, for the simple reason that she had received a lower-than-normal score on the math portion of one of her tests. Khan offered to tutor her to help bring up her scores, and thus…

CSCSU has a strict no cell phone policy while in the schoolhouse. Any student that enters the classroom with his or her cell phone simply shows lack of interest in learning, lack of self restraint and the inability to follow simple orders. When I was in high school, I often noticed students texting or playing games with their phones whenever our teacher was turned around writing on the board or absent from the room. By the end of the semester, most of those students wouldn 't be…

In Bruce Davidsons’ “boy in the schoolhouse” the photograph of the young African American boy writing on the chalkboard, he calls attention to two opposing viewpoints on life as an African American during the mid-1900’s: 1.) viewing the boy as normal, being in class expected hours, and treated equally or 2.) viewing the boy differently, spending extra time after class, and treated unequally. The young boy is portrayed standing with good posture fixated on the chalkboard in the dark, unlit…

He lets himself enjoy the scenery, which improves his mood even more. While mulling over the advice and lessons he has received from his relatives, he comes to the conclusion that the small things in life are not worth getting overly worked up over. In particular, he decides “that having your shins kicked in the subway is not the gravest insult to dignity ever suffered by common humanity.” After that, he reaches the old schoolhouse. There, he begins thinking about his two great-grandfathers, as…

Sreetej Kalapatapu Core 2 Loyalty As I looked down to see the wet grass beneath me, I heard my mother call me inside of the house for dinner. I swiftly crossed over to by abode as I hear my father shouting for me to come. “I am approaching father” I yelled. As I went inside, I pulled up a chair to the glass table- which was full of cracks- my mother greeted me and questioned me about my day from morning to present. Instead of avoiding the ultimate truth, I told my mother the exact happenings…