Subject – REWIRING YOUR BRAIN on Dr. Robert Rose’s Blog Talk Radio program

STRESS REDUCTION, HAPPINESS BUILDING – guest: Tom Von Deck, author of Oceanic Mind – The Deeper Training Course

TOM VON DECK is a personal and workplace meditation …

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The following will get some of you angry, defensive, but most will at least silently admit that I’m right. However, you will continue to believe that you’re helpless against the politicians of both parties who are equally cowardly. This belief is self-fulfilling – and crippling!

Most teachers would be glad to see the schools get rid of the few who
make a mockery of teaching. Few teachers would object to yearly
evaluations like I’ll suggest because they are clear, verifiable, have
a built in opportunity to improve or change, and are not based just on
one person’s evaluation, but on other criteria as well. It is complex,
but it is necessary to insure that good teachers are not punished and
ineffective ones are not allowed to continue to teach.

In my second year I had a terrific bunch. There were six gifted children in my sixth grade class who became my teaching assistants. Melinda of the straight A’s was one of them. I found that if I taught them the concept or skill first, then they were excellent intermediaries. It is the basis of what is known as “peer teaching.”

There you stand trying to get the attention of your thirty-four students. Each one is so different from the others that it would take hours to list their physical, mental, emotional, and cultural differences. Yet, your job is to impart to this group a very specific body of information and skills in a prescribed amount of time using pre- scribed texts and materials – and you are to keep them quiet, attentive, and on-task after you give them an assignment. Totally impossible to do hour after hour, day after day.

“Don’t touch me you white M…F…!”

I wouldn’t be normal if his anger didn’t hurt me. I had the legal power (1965) to paddle or suspend him, but I didn’t. I didn’t even have this concept clearly in my mind, …

Patsy was one of the smallest girls in my class. Her parents came from Cambodia and they taught her to be quiet, courteous, and thoughtful of others. She was calmly, confidently pointing to her teammates exactly where each was to play.

Would you hire a person to educate the students in your town if he told you 20% would fail or be below average and another 60% would be average?