This woman teaches in an urban, multi-ethnic school in Australia. This is a fabulous post on the impact of ethnicity on the kids' self concept:
The best thing I've done with disaffected, ready-to-leave older kids recently is to give them a date, a lesson objective, access to all the materials available, and some decent time to prepare, then asked them to prepare and teach a lesson to the rest of their class.
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But the surprise of the term is how hyper enamoured these kids are of racial identity. At least one lesson in four will be entirely focussed upon race or the issue of racism, and it opens every sleepy teenage eye in the room.
(Ms. Frizzle found her), and this is my entry in Doc Shazam's Friday fun.
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