Animal School (5 min. video)

Motek

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 8:36 am

http://www.raisingsmallsouls.c......html

(turn on the sound)

1234abcd

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 8:47 am

oh wow! this is great!

basmalkah

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 10:32 am

Thank you!!! Every principal and teacher should see this before the new school year!!!

timeout

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 1:00 pm

Thanks Motek I had tears in my eyes if you've read about what I went thru with my sons Yeshivah this justifies my feelings.

Crayon210

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 1:37 pm

Thank you...that made me cry!

All those poor children. Sad

Meema2Kids

Tue, Jul 11 2006, 2:29 pm

I also cried...

healthymama

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 6:32 am

it was nice, but I don't agree with some things. You can't expect a kid to skip english and just focus on math because he does well in one subject and not the other. Unlike animals, we do not know what kids will or will not be doing when they grow up.

I did agree that being flexible and sensitive to differences is important.

Crayon210

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 9:51 am

Where did the video say that a kid should skip English and just focus on math because he does well in one subject and not the other? With the duck? I davka thought the video was against that idea...

healthymama

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 10:14 am

yeah, with the duck. We are supposed to realize how dumb it was that they made the duck drop swimming to focus on climbing, just like the child who excels at math, but is not good at English.

I liked most of it, this part irked me though.

Crayon210

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 10:22 am

Why does that irk you?

Rochel Leah

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 9:50 pm

very impressive!

hardwrknmom

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 7:56 am

very inspirational. ty

HappyPurim

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 8:08 am

Beautifuly said and done...

red sea

Mon, Jul 31 2006, 3:40 pm

http://www.raisingsmallsouls.c......html

I got this in an e-mail

(just a heads up - there is music so you can keep your speakers off for now)

merged with previous thread on this clip - mod

Estee2

Mon, Jul 31 2006, 4:10 pm

Excellent, moving video.

While I feel it would be greatly beneficial for all parents and teachers
and administrators to watch this to gain a greater insight of all the different
types of children out there, as a teacher for over 14 years, I have
a couple comments :

1) I have a middle school student who has a hard time writing more than
3- 4 lines in a half hour. While I let her take part of her tests orally, and
do other class papers verbally, in the long run, she has not had the writing practice to succeed.

2) Same if Hebrew/English Chumash is used. Yes, a learning disabled child will enjoy drawing the Perek instead of taking a test or doing her HW, but if she is a few years behind in skills when young, she will be 6 yrs. behind in skills -- or never learn Rashi if so busy spending time on the things she is good at.

3) If the student who had to jump out of her seat every 6 min. disturbs the other 18-20 students in the class -- great, she's happy, but, the other students can't learn.

So, I agree with the video -- focus on their strenghts, as that
is most probably where their talents are. ANd if they like Dance, Choir,
Drama, Art -- make these projects !

However, sometimes we may also harm if they do not read well
when young, we may have missed a window of opportunity
once they are older. Crying

avigayil

Mon, Jul 31 2006, 5:39 pm

Wow, that is one of the most inspring clips I have seen in awhile.

Mitzvahmom

Tue, Aug 01 2006, 11:20 am

Beautiful!

I passed it on to my daughter's teacher... maybe that will give her some insight Wink