Kathleen Robinson

A Voice For The Children In The Back Row (eBook, ePUB)

Children Who Become Invisible In The Classroom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When a serious educator decides to deliberately improve his/her praxis, professional development may take many forms. Workshops, textbooks, residencies and internships all lend support and a well-defined, formal perspective on the nuance of a classroom. One seemingly seldom prescription or improvement is travel. Cultural immersion expands the mind like nothing else. It offers different and fresh perspectives as well as confirmation of the similarities between people regardless of location, socio-economic status, or ethnic affinity. The stories outlined in "Children in the Back Row" highlight the universal challenges that teachers encounter around the world. It makes a plain and effective case for empathy, an essential element to classroom instruction, besides data analysis, pacing charts and strict pedagogy.

Sean Lloyd, MPA

New Jersey,USA

School Founder & Administrator

In an examination-oriented, mass education system, where one size seldom fits all, the ubiquitous drive - obsession almost - to "complete the syllabus" conspires to ensure that some passengers are ultimately left sitting disconsolately in the back row. To get their destination they must, invariably, either take another taxi or walk. Kathleen Robinson's 'A Voice for the Child in the Back Row' mirrors, in many ways, my own experience in the classroom for more than three decades, virtually on his own, to fulfill mainstream societal expectations. In 'A Voice for the Child in the Back Row' I find solace in the fact that this issue has been so well articulated and documented but more importantly, I feel renewed sense of hope that, with this latest strident presentation, some appropriately qualified social architect or engines will finally assume the mantle to oversee meaningful, coherent and sustainable change at the systematic level.

J. Baisden, Educator

January 2012

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rustik Haws LLC
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781649340825
• Artikelnr.: 59745558

Autorenporträt

I began teaching French at the age of 18 at a Private Secondary School. It was a part-time evening job. Before the age of 19, I began teaching at a Primary/Elementary Boys' School. I enjoyed both levels of students. I migrated to Boston, USA and then later on to Toronto, Canada where I attended York University - Glendon College, Education Faculty. There I developed my expertise of teaching for levels K to 13. Years later, in Trinidad, I received a Master of Education in Literacy from Mount Saint Vincent University of Nova Scotia, Canada. I returned to Trinidad and began teaching at the Secondary/High School Level. Additionally, I privately tutored students who were aged 10+ in preparation for their Secondary entrance examination. Eventually, I lectured part-time at the Education Faculty, University of the Southern Caribbean (also known as Caribbean Union College- CUC). Finally, I lectured at the Centre for Education, full time, at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, (UTT). Each class is a chapter of a story to be told, my own story included. My overall objective was always to make learning fun.