Special Activities Division

Although a humongous amount of schools do not allow the boys and girls to play on teams together, it is probably a tremendous experience because when the children are older, they will work with everyone. In the future when the children get a job, they will work with all sorts of people. There are many reasons why girls and boys should be on the same team together. School teams are usually divided up into boys and girls, but being on the same team together could help you later on in life. As a…

School can be a very stressful and chaotic place. However, it's helpful and rewarding. Students have many responsibilities to deal with in such little time. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything due the amount of time provided. Time is important to keep track of, once you lose track of time everything starts gets more complicated. The time in between classes is especially chaotic for most students. Therefore, Goessel students should have more time in between classes. Being late to…

anyway? If you stay up a little later than usual, it wouldn’t hurt. Besides, you can catch up on late work for school or even special events. Teens should be able to stay up late, because they are not young elementary students. They are in middle school now, and they should receive privileges along the way for all the hard work they have put in to achieve more. One activity that they can get busy with would be watching a movie or even watching T.V. on the couch. Now, I know that some…

latest marking period grades.” A problem with this rule is that it is not pushing students to get higher grades for school. As the DSISD states in their Beliefs and Expectations Program, “Students who participate in co-curricular and extracurricular activities tend to have higher grade point averages, better attendance records, lower dropout rates, and fewer discipline problems than students…

Once upon a time, there was school. Wait what? Whether you know it as a cliché for once in the past or the basic formula for beginning fairy tales, this indium is easily recognizable by many. Oftentimes it is followed by character histories full of leisure and seemingly missing any aspect of violence. Consequently, the ensuing conflict seems a better comparison for such a diabolical topic as school. Millions of students have had to groan themselves awake on a Monday, realizing that they would…

Some High Schools have sports programs like football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, Cross Country, and etc. My twin cousins are part of cross country, and they hardly get sick since they joined. I strongly believe High School programs have many positive out comes for students, like by practicing for games which you have to stretch/workout your muscles to build them and get them stronger. To be part of a sport's team you have to be in good shape, because nobody wants someone who can't kick hard…

structured out-of-school activities are enormously important to them, with 85% saying that kids who participate in such activities are better off than those who don't” (Rizzolo). Although some people may think that extracurricular activities are important to public education others may think the opposite. Extracurricular activities have been proven to improve academics in core subjects such as math, social studies, language arts, and science (Chen). Extracurricular activities have also been…

Although Wall High School is an accepting environment, I feel as if we do not offer activities that cater to all students abilities and talents. For instance, in regards to this past pep week, I observed that a majority of the events pertain to only students who are athletic. Tug of war requires strength, while the three legged race requires coordination, and the potato sack race calls for jumping skills. These competitions only appeal to those who can take on the task of recreation games. What…

classes and then go to the learning resource room for the rest of the time where my teacher would help me with the work and sometimes unfortunately my teacher would do it for me. I truly believe now since I have been a teacher and now becoming a special education teacher, I might not have been identified if some of these interventions would have been in place. Now, we speak of inclusion within our schools and I have to say I totally agree with it, especially those students like myself who just…

The practice issue I will be exploring in relation to Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) is the active participation of children in their own learning, with an emphasis on the importance of appropriate differentiation. I have chosen to investigate this fundamental issue as it strikes me that I have seen little evidence of children with SEND being encouraged to actively participate in their learning. Firstly, I will attempt to define inclusion and what it means to be engaging in…