I have an addiction...
The last few weeks I ate nothing but candy... It is so good. Chocolate, winegums, cake, pie.. everything!
Everyday I tell myself that I need to quit but it seems that I love it too much.
dinsdag 12 oktober 2010
zaterdag 29 mei 2010
My opinion about the article below
My opinion
First of all I did not sign up for this education to become a bad teacher. No one did, I hope. Every teacher who has a diploma have the freedom to teach and to continue teaching because her/his diploma proves that she/he has license to teach. However, there are still teachers who prove opposite despite the diploma.
First we need to identify what bad teachers are: no passion for teaching, no complete knowledge, cannot cross information over, no respect, do not know how to keep order etc. If this is the case then yes, you should fire those teachers. It is a major problem of course that we have a lack of teachers. However, is it better to have no teacher at all? It is proven that some teachers do more damage when they are around. Therefore, it is better to fire bad teachers and search for new teachers, good teachers!
First of all I did not sign up for this education to become a bad teacher. No one did, I hope. Every teacher who has a diploma have the freedom to teach and to continue teaching because her/his diploma proves that she/he has license to teach. However, there are still teachers who prove opposite despite the diploma.
First we need to identify what bad teachers are: no passion for teaching, no complete knowledge, cannot cross information over, no respect, do not know how to keep order etc. If this is the case then yes, you should fire those teachers. It is a major problem of course that we have a lack of teachers. However, is it better to have no teacher at all? It is proven that some teachers do more damage when they are around. Therefore, it is better to fire bad teachers and search for new teachers, good teachers!
Hundreds of bad teachers sacked
Ben Russell Education Correspondent
MORE THAN 3,000 teachers have been warned and hundreds sacked in the past year over the standard of their work, according to the first such statistics to be collected.
Six hundred lost their jobs and 440 are still under review, figures from local authority employers disclose. An estimated total of about 6,000 staff - 2 per cent of serving teachers - will eventually go through the capability procedures.
The survey by the National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers found that only 29 were sacked under new "fast-track" procedures for removing staff. About 200 whose work was questioned had improved. More than half the cases were dealt with informally.
The statistics will reopen a long-running debate about the number of incompetent teachers in schools. They contrast sharply with claims made by Chris Woodhead, the chief inspector of schools, who has said that as many as 15,000 staff are consistently teaching unsatisfactory or poor lessons.
Graham Lane, chairman of the employers' organisation, said claims about the numbers of incompetent teachers had been "grossly exaggerated".
He said: "There are probably 2 or 3 per cent of people in any job who should not be doing it. I also fully expect the number to drop because the Government has reintroduced the induction year for new teachers. This was abolished by the last Government and some people slipped through the net who shouldn't have. Now staff who fail their induction year will have their licences to teach removed."
The figures are based on a survey of 116 of the 172 local authorities in England and Wales. It found that 1,800 staff were subjected to informal procedure, although there is no record of whether they subsequently lost their jobs.
Under new rules, staff whose standards cause concern are monitored for a year and have to improve or face the sack. But fast-track procedures can remove teachers in as little as four weeks.
Doug McAvoy, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "I was confident the exaggerated claims of the chief inspector could finally be disproved. These figures do that. Parents can be assured that the vast majority of the 450,000 teachers in our schools are doing a satisfactory job or better and that the claims of Chris Woodhead should be ignored.
"GCSE and A-level results show how successful schools are today and the hard work and dedication of teachers should be celebrated along with the achievements of their students."
MORE THAN 3,000 teachers have been warned and hundreds sacked in the past year over the standard of their work, according to the first such statistics to be collected.
Six hundred lost their jobs and 440 are still under review, figures from local authority employers disclose. An estimated total of about 6,000 staff - 2 per cent of serving teachers - will eventually go through the capability procedures.
The survey by the National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers found that only 29 were sacked under new "fast-track" procedures for removing staff. About 200 whose work was questioned had improved. More than half the cases were dealt with informally.
The statistics will reopen a long-running debate about the number of incompetent teachers in schools. They contrast sharply with claims made by Chris Woodhead, the chief inspector of schools, who has said that as many as 15,000 staff are consistently teaching unsatisfactory or poor lessons.
Graham Lane, chairman of the employers' organisation, said claims about the numbers of incompetent teachers had been "grossly exaggerated".
He said: "There are probably 2 or 3 per cent of people in any job who should not be doing it. I also fully expect the number to drop because the Government has reintroduced the induction year for new teachers. This was abolished by the last Government and some people slipped through the net who shouldn't have. Now staff who fail their induction year will have their licences to teach removed."
The figures are based on a survey of 116 of the 172 local authorities in England and Wales. It found that 1,800 staff were subjected to informal procedure, although there is no record of whether they subsequently lost their jobs.
Under new rules, staff whose standards cause concern are monitored for a year and have to improve or face the sack. But fast-track procedures can remove teachers in as little as four weeks.
Doug McAvoy, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "I was confident the exaggerated claims of the chief inspector could finally be disproved. These figures do that. Parents can be assured that the vast majority of the 450,000 teachers in our schools are doing a satisfactory job or better and that the claims of Chris Woodhead should be ignored.
"GCSE and A-level results show how successful schools are today and the hard work and dedication of teachers should be celebrated along with the achievements of their students."
Hamlet's duality
Hamlet has many characteristics. This is best shown in his soliloquies. One of his famous soliloquy is ‘to be or not to be.’ Hamlet has shown many sides of him: he is melancholy; he is critical; he is full of hatred for his uncle and his mother’s sexuality and yet his position as a tragic hero is supreme.
What clearly has been stated in Hamlet is that he had the feeling that he could not cope anymore. He desperately wanted to escape from his life, because he hated it so much. ‘Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,’ he mentioned. Which means he wishes that his ‘flesh would melt. ’ Furthermore, his mother’s treachery against his father ribs the very last breath out of Hamlet’s being. He is enraged that his uncle married his mother after a small period of time. Hamlet tortures himself by recalling his precious moments with his father’s tenderness towards his mother. After having a little chat with the ghost, Hamlet his anger had grown inside and gave him the motivation to do what had to be done: killing his uncle. After a while Hamlet could not kill his uncle therefore Hamlet had to create a mask because he had to act insane because then his uncle had to leave to England.
The insanity became useful at that time because it gave him power to get rid of his father’s killer: his uncle. Because of his weaknesses and his flaws he became a tragic hero. It is his character which leads him to death, his own death, because of his major weakness. He portrays a person with irresolution, the uncertainty of how to act, which is shown in many soliloquies and merely when he had to make a decision whether or not to kill his uncle.
Hamlet, who is devastated of his father’s death cannot follow his task through. Hamlet’s delay in punishing Claudius, his uncle, causes his own death but also causes death of many other people. He is too late to achieves his outcome, which is therefore a tragedy. And that makes him a hero.
What clearly has been stated in Hamlet is that he had the feeling that he could not cope anymore. He desperately wanted to escape from his life, because he hated it so much. ‘Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,’ he mentioned. Which means he wishes that his ‘flesh would melt. ’ Furthermore, his mother’s treachery against his father ribs the very last breath out of Hamlet’s being. He is enraged that his uncle married his mother after a small period of time. Hamlet tortures himself by recalling his precious moments with his father’s tenderness towards his mother. After having a little chat with the ghost, Hamlet his anger had grown inside and gave him the motivation to do what had to be done: killing his uncle. After a while Hamlet could not kill his uncle therefore Hamlet had to create a mask because he had to act insane because then his uncle had to leave to England.
The insanity became useful at that time because it gave him power to get rid of his father’s killer: his uncle. Because of his weaknesses and his flaws he became a tragic hero. It is his character which leads him to death, his own death, because of his major weakness. He portrays a person with irresolution, the uncertainty of how to act, which is shown in many soliloquies and merely when he had to make a decision whether or not to kill his uncle.
Hamlet, who is devastated of his father’s death cannot follow his task through. Hamlet’s delay in punishing Claudius, his uncle, causes his own death but also causes death of many other people. He is too late to achieves his outcome, which is therefore a tragedy. And that makes him a hero.
woensdag 26 mei 2010
BIRTHDAY
I had a lovely birthday yesterday! It started a little bit rough though but I went OK after a few hours. I gave a nice lesson and afterwards my friends came to celebrate it with me!
I had some nice presents!
I had some nice presents!
zaterdag 15 mei 2010
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