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Story Archives: Weekly devotional and church listings: Feb. 16, 2012


Weekly devotional and church listings: Feb. 16, 2012
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By GARY ANDREWS
gary@gadevotionals.com

In the late 1990's I taught Journalism, part-time, to high school students. I am not a certified teacher however I did, at that time, have over 25 years of journalism experience and was considered a professional in the field. This qualified me to help out our local high school which was short a teacher.

It was refreshing to be with most of these students. It was a challenge to be around some of the others.

Having no textbooks for the elective course, I had to bring in materials I had gathered over my print media span and use it to the best of my ability. The students were hungry for what I had to say, but did not appreciate the fact that I made them write a lot of stories, read a lot of material, but most of them really hated my spelling tests. They couldn't believe juniors and seniors in high school had to take spelling tests, which was desperately needed. Most of them did not want to think on their own. They wanted every answer given to them and it bothered them that I wouldn't do that. I thought students needed to learn the way I did when I was in school.
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