![]() One of her students is a well-meaning boy who is frequently involved in gang activity and street crime. My friend really strives to reach those students who are really struggling, because of their situations outside of the school. Sometimes these methods have attracted the anger of the school authorities, but she so believes in these students and will do anything to help them achieve. I worry a little bit for my friend, she gives of so much of her own money and time to engage these kids. Her students write blogs and post on social media. She has used Childish Gambino's "This is America" to introduce social issues and unpack social criticism using media. Tambourine Man" to teach symbolism and metaphor once this is achieved, she progressed on to Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night". ![]() In order to introduce them to poetry, my friend used the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "Mr. She gave them all NCEA Level 2 from the beginning of the year - and to motivate them, told them that the only thing required of them was to maintain it. Her motto was "There are no victims in this classroom." My friend was desperate to reach the students, and to connect with them, and so devised heaps of classroom exercises that taught the principles of the curriculum, but used themes and language that appealed to them. When she did this, the students showed some interest in the activities and her efforts, but they quickly reverted to their former behavior when she tried to teach the curriculum. She changed up her dress sense, wearing a leather jacket and taught students karate and other self defense skills. She decided to tap into her own training and her knowledge to see if she could get through to them. In this, her first year of teaching, she was confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang, neglect, and drugs, flatly refusing to engage with anything. ![]() My friend is a former soldier, who applied for, and got offered a teaching job in a South Auckland high school. This is the story of a good friend of mine, who's a teacher. "You want to tell me what this is all about?" ![]()
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