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Failing or Not
Posted February 29th, 2008 by Christina MerridaMy name is Christina Merrida and I am in Dr. Gabbards EDU 3200 class. My transformative leadership project is on how when you come to ECU as a freshman and your struggling with a class or failing a class you get a email sayign how your endangereed of failing and potientally on academic probation. From expericence I think that is a good idea because then its kind of a kick in your butt to get things together. But what happens when your a sophmore, junior or senior. You know longer get those emails. I know that you have more experience, but then it brings you back to the question of equality and fairness. Should we just help the people who we identify as failing or should we put all concern out to all of our students...think about it.!
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Posted February 5th, 2008 by Christina MerridaHi, my name is Christina, and I am a soph. are ECU. Im majoring in Elementary Education because I love little kids. Their full of so much joy and happiness and I know it will be a new challenge everytime I go to work. After reading, Parker Palmers' Heart of a Teacher, it really made me think of what kind of teacher I want to be. I always knew I wanted to the one of those "cool" teachers, that students would always rememeber and respect when they got older. But I also wanted to be one of those teachers who teaches you something new everyday when you come to class. I want my students to feel different about education and take it more serious.
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