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Deven
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Deven Black
- Location:
- Nyack, NY
- Gender:
- Male
- Service:
- Middle School
- Status:
- Currently Teaching
Deven: Activity
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I affect the persona of a radical from time to time, but it has little effect. |
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Add the word "lesson" to those search strings and you'll get even better results. |
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Google "heat science upper elementary" or "heat science 4th grade and you'll find lots of ideas. |
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batiera says ...
The government is the people...or at least it should be. But I ask you, is that still the case? Our... |
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I have told that to WWII vets, Korea vets and Vietnam vets. Actually, it was a vet who pointed this out to me and turned me onto to Gandhi.As John ... |
Professional Information
Work
- Employer:
- NYCDOE MS127
- Position:
- Special Education Teacher
- Industry:
- Education, Training, and Library
- Location:
- Bronx, NY
- Employer:
- NYC Department of Education
- Position:
- Teacher
Education
- School:
- Fordham Univeristy GSE, MS-Teaching
- School:
- SUNY Empire State College, BS
Deven: References
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philip panaritis
ny City DOE, supervisorSummary: Deven is very conscientious and hard-working. He is a self-starter and extremely generous with his colleagues. He has a rare grasp of history, geography and current events.
Personal
- About Me:
- I came to teaching as a profession at age 50 after finally realizing I've been teaching all my life in one way or another. Prior to teaching I was a political activist, news reporter on radio and for newspapers, an advertising copy writer, voice-over artist, bartender, restaurant manager and speech writer. The most common comment about me is that I am intellectual. Some mean it as a compliment, others see it another way. I am also accused of being funny. I think that's mostly a compliment.
- Hobbies:
- Reading, Animals/Pets, Cooking, Music, Computer Activities, Dining Out, Writing
- Favorite Movies:
- Guys & Dolls, A Night at the Opera
- Favorite Music:
- I have never found a form of music that I can't find something to like in.
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paulmah
about 1 month ago
68 comments
Kids Are Quick
TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: 'K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell
it.
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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we
didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with
'I.'
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry
tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father
didn't punish him?!
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.
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TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good
cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same
as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.
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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking
when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
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PASS IT AROUND AND MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH! LAUGHTER IS THE SOUL'S MEDICINE!!
SBonilla07
3 months ago
588 comments
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A TEACHER, though, awakens your own expectations." _Patricia Neal_
c_gempz
6 months ago
412 comments
Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
--- Henry David Thoreau --- Submitted by Richie Satyanjali --- I
c_gempz
6 months ago
412 comments
Your friends are very precious things;
Their love is like the rarest gem.
But friends are hard to find and keep
Unless you are a friend to them. Ann Cragg
c_gempz
7 months ago
412 comments
"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."--
Lida Clarkson
c_gempz
8 months ago
412 comments
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
Jerome Bruner on the purpose of education: "It is to teach him to participate in the process that makes possible the establishment of knowledge. We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as a historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product."
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
"Should we privatize our schools? Should we have national standards of assessment? How should we use computers? How shall we teach reading? And so on. . . . These questions evade the issue of what the schools are for. It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise of how something should be done, afraid and incapable of thinking about why." - - Neil Postman, The end of education
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
"Because we are engaged in a day-by-day process of self-invention - - not discovery, for what we search for does not exist until we find it - - both the past and the future are raw material, shaped and re-shaped by each individual... Composing a life involves continual re-imagining of the future and re-interpretation of the past to give meaning to the present, remembering best those events that prefigured what followed, forgetting those that proved to have no meaning within the narrative."
- - Bateson, M.c, (1989). Composing a life. New York: Penguin
c_gempz
8 months ago
412 comments
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
--Robert M. Hutchins
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
--Rene Descartes,
mathematician, philosopher
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.”
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Deven
8 months ago
588 comments
“The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
--Sigmund Freud,
founder of psychoanalysis
Jill
10 months ago
750 comments
Creative lesson plan!