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Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!
Posted by Success Friend on 8/03/07

    Thanks for the info about the Secret, I will check it out. If Oprah
    endorses it, it must be pretty cool. Thank you for the information. I
    like a nice, healthy debate, but you made a reference to a book that I
    have no idea about. My philosophy is based on experience and
    observation, not one particular book. If you don't think your comment
    contained negativity or sarcasm, I guess we are not fit for a debate.
    Can you provide evidence for your hypothesis? Have you conduted an
    experiment that disproves what I am saying? My philosophy is based on
    my experimentation in classrooms across the U.S. with children of all
    learning abilities and ethnicities. Even a child with autism, or
    mental retardation has a brain which can be challenged and expanded.
    It may take longer, or several attempts in finding the best learning
    mechanism, but anything is possible. I also read quote books, and
    trust what people have done before me. If they say anything is
    possible, I believe it. I have seen myself lifted out of poverty,
    violence, and abuse to a new dimension of enlightenment. Because of
    the influence if teachers who told me that I was brilliant and
    believed in me, I was able to believe in myself. I remember performing
    a poem at an assembly in 5th grade. It was in front of everybody, the
    entire student body. I was scared to death, as I was constantly teased
    by other kids. My teacher encouraged me to jump, move, and dance while
    expressing my poetry. I thought I looked stupid doing these things,
    but after the assembly, teachers, students, and principals
    complimented me on my performance. This was a pivital point for me in
    my life. I realized that what others thought was not important, it was
    all about me. I have been labeled dumb, slow, retared, stupid,
    unintelligent, charcoal, homely, and ruined by Ebonics. But because I
    believed I was brilliant, I continued to overcome obstacles to life.
    Life is a learning experience. I thank God that I am 25 years old, and
    have made it out the projects of Chicago. Although others around me--
    my brother, sister, father, and mother were plagued by drug abuse,
    illness, and prison life, I was able to accomplish many things before
    the age of 15, including starting my own motivational speaking
    company. I am evidence that all children are brilliant. I was dumb
    when I thought I was dumb. When I realized that my thoughts were
    powerful and that my environment was only external, I demanded change
    and got it.


    On 8/03/07, hmmmm wrote:
    > sorry, can't tell you about "the secret" because i haven't read it.
    just saw the oprah
    > episode about it. sounds like what you are talking about.
    >
    > thanks for the sarcasm. i'm done with you. talk about negativity.
    >
    > On 8/03/07, SuccessFriend wrote:
    >> I have been trained by Teach for America and by the great Marva
    >> Collins of Chicago who has proven the fact that all kids are
    >> brilliant. Based on your remedial response, I understand why you
    >> believe what you believe. You don't even believe in yourself, let
    >> alone in a beautiful child full of potential. Your belief system
    >> is damaged with negative thinking. I read a variety of materials,
    >> including John C. Maxwell, Napoleon Hill, the Bible, Wayne Dyer,
    >> Malcolm X, Harry Wong, and the list goes on and on. I have heard
    >> of the "Secret" but haven't had the opportunity to read it. Can
    >> you tell me more about it, since you know so much about it?
    >>
    >> On 8/02/07, hmmm wrote:
    >>> what i'm hearing you type is that all people have the same
    >>> capability to learn, and that's simply not true.
    >>>
    >>> sounds like you've been reading "the secret".
    >>>
    >>> On 8/02/07, SuccessFriend wrote:
    >>>> Brilliant is the correct terminology. Children are brilliant
    >>>> because they have the potential to learn as much and as
    >>>> quickly as any adult. Children are sponges. With the right
    >>>> adult influence in their lives and the will to do it, they can
    >>>> explore many possibilities. Intelligence is not a measurable
    >>>> thing, although many try to measure it. Because the mind is
    >>>> always expanding, your so-called intelliegence level changes
    >>>> daily, as with every cell in your body. No one stays the same
    >>>> unless they are not allowed to explore their brilliance.
    >>>> Intelligence is more that memorizing facts and doing basic
    >>>> mathematical operations. It involves intuition and creativity,
    >>>> which every human being possesses. We do not allow our
    >>>> children in America to feel capable because we are too busy
    >>>> pointing out their weaknesses. When in fact we should be
    >>>> focusing on their stregths. One may "appear" to be more
    >>>> intelligent than the next, when in reality we all are unique
    >>>> individuals. We all learn in different ways. We cannot
    >>>> categorize ourselves as disabled because we are not presented
    >>>> information in our appropriate mode of learning. Who are we to
    >>>> judge? We are all uniquely brilliant, even if we don't believe
    >>>> it. The reason I KNOW that I am brilliant is because I believe
    >>>> it. The reason I KNOW every child is brilliant is because I
    >>>> believe it. The children I encounter are brilliant because I
    >>>> help them to see why they are uniquely brilliant. They were
    >>>> created from the same material as Einstein, Bill Gates, Oprah
    >>>> or any other successful person. We all come to the Earth on a
    >>>> clean slate. Our beliefs about ourselves determine how
    >>>> intelligent we actually become. Intelligence is not only in
    >>>> the mind, it begins in the heart. If you believe you are
    >>>> smart, then you are. You will begin to behave in such a way to
    >>>> harmonize with being a smart person. If you believe you are
    >>>> dumb, then you will begin to behave in a "dumb" manner. Its
    >>>> all about perception. I want to open all of our eyes as
    >>>> educators to understand that ALL KIDS ARE BRILLIANT. The
    >>>> future is full of possibilities. Look at Dr. Ben Carson who
    >>>> was labeled special ed. Look what he has become just through
    >>>> the sheer determination of his mother, who always told him how
    >>>> smart he was. If you tell kids they are smart, they will have
    >>>> no choice but to eventually believe it. But if you continue to
    >>>> tell children that the person sitting next to them
    >>>> is "smarter" because he passed the test with a 90&37; average,
    >>>> then you are sending a strong negative message. You are saying
    >>>> that some are born smart, and others dumb. That couldn't be
    >>>> farther from the truth. Again, until you believe that you are
    >>>> brilliant, how can you see the brilliance in any other human
    >>>> being. We cannot sit around and judge others based on our own
    >>>> DISability to see life as what it really is. People are all
    >>>> the same in the core, and every person is full of
    >>>> possibilities. It is when you believe that something isn't
    >>>> possible that you give up on life. Let's not give up on our
    >>>> children by labeling them and hinting around about Bell curves
    >>>> and other antiquated psychology. We are in the information
    >>>> age, not the industrial age. The education system is 40 years
    >>>> behind, and it shows by the opions expressed by educators who
    >>>> have little vision. Lets clear our goggles and see children
    >>>> for what they really are---BRILLIANT!
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> On 8/02/07, hmmmm wrote:
    >>>>> saying that all children are "brilliant" sounds to me like
    >>>> saying that all children
    >>>>> are "special." if everyone's special, then special loses
    >>>> its actual meaning and
    >>>>> negates itself, making no one actually special.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> imho, defining brilliant as "all children have talents" is
    >>>> more accurate. but in
    >>>>> terms of pure intelligence, i disagree. i see evidence of
    >>>> the 'ol bell curve every
    >>>>> year. not every student is intellectually brilliant, but
    >>>> they all have a talent.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> On 3/28/07, Success Friend wrote:
    >>>>>> Our children in America are being cheated in many ways. I
    >>>>>> want you to first remember who is teaching our children---
    >>>>>> children who have increased in age and who probably
    >>>>>> received the same public education growing up. These
    >>>>>> former public education students are now given the
    >>>>>> label "teacher," because of a 4-year degree and a state
    >>>>>> teaching licensure. No matter how "educated" a teacher
    >>>>>> appears to be, it does not guarantee that he or she is an
    >>>>>> effective teacher. An effective teacher is able to teach
    >>>>>> well because he or she is constantly learning right along
    >>>>>> with the students. Teachers have seemed to lose their
    >>>>>> ability to learn. Why do I say this? Well, because
    >>>>>> students are rapidly changing, so should our methodology
    >>>>>> for teaching students must change as well. The students
    >>>>>> you have this year are very different from the students
    >>>>>> you taught 5 years ago. The truth is that EVERY student is
    >>>>>> very different from the next. Therefore, an individualized
    >>>>>> instructional plan is neccessary to help students learn.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> I believe that we are too quick to label our
    >>>>>> students "special education" because of low performance on
    >>>>>> standardized tests. I know for a fact that EVERY child,
    >>>>>> regardless of his or her perceived disability is
    >>>>>> BRILLIANT! Until we collectively as a community start to
    >>>>>> believe in the brilliance of our children, then they will
    >>>>>> continue to perform at a low capacity. We are too busy
    >>>>>> looking for our children's disabilities rather than their
    >>>>>> abilities. With that said, teachers should especially
    >>>>>> believe in the brilliance of their students and treat them
    >>>>>> as such. Just because little Johnny doesn't analyze
    >>>>>> mathematical equations with the same accuracy as Jackie
    >>>>>> doesn't mean that Jackie is more intelligent than Johnny.
    >>>>>> It only means that Johnny has some other talent--like the
    >>>>>> drawings he makes in his notebook that his teacher
    >>>>>> repeatedly asks him to "put away." When you ask kids to
    >>>>>> surpress their God-given talents and focus on some other
    >>>>>> skill they have no enjoyment or interest in, then you are
    >>>>>> creating an unhappy and unproductive child.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Only until we start to learn how to adapt state standards
    >>>>>> to a child's given talent, we will continue to subject our
    >>>>>> children to hell in the classroom. It must feel like hell
    >>>>>> to sit in a school for 6 hours a day and learn absolutely
    >>>>>> nothing! The left-brain focused curricula of most public
    >>>>>> schools neglects the right -brain potential of every
    >>>>>> student. Every student can learn how to think. They first
    >>>>>> have to believe in their brilliance, then learn to use
    >>>>>> their talents to increase their knowledge and potential
    >>>>>> for success.

     
     

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