catapult magazine

Items tagged teaching

• Helping students develop their culture vision

  *cino proposes to expand and market a media discernment curriculum developed by the author that is already being used successfully at Illiana Christian High School.

• Under my skin

  A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

• Cryin?, cheatin?, and leavin?

  A teacher?s assistant ponders what keeps him up all night grading students? papers.

• Failure and hope

  On the challenge of assigning students a grade and the qualities of ?failure.?

• Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be clueless

  On passing down skills in community.

• Spinning a yarn

  A family tradition of "making things" leads to a very rewarding waste of time.

• Ten things for teaching

  A moment of reflection before heading into a whirlwind of a term.

• Something that won’t compute

  Embracing downward mobility in the already-but-not-yet Kingdom of God.

• A foretaste of the feast to come

  A reflection on a full-bodied model for teaching, celebrating and practicing communion.

• Selfschooling

  What my son teaches himself, and how.

• If you want to teach well

  A short lesson on listening to and appreciating children for who they are.

• The Reader’s Digest version: B.S. Education

  A teacher shares what she’s learned from forty years of various teaching experiences.

• Taking a red crayon to a white wall

  How the students in a free writing workshop have taught the teacher.

• The Fourposter

  Weaving the story of four decades of gratitude and glory.

• I remember the names of all my teachers

  A “difficult” student reflects on the teachers who did and didn’t treat her as a problem child.

• Organic chemistry

  A second-career student reflects on making connections in class.

• A dangerous adventure

  A review of the book The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Rancière.

• A tale of three or four teachers

  Learning from the ancestral line about intuition vs. skill in teaching.

• The equation for education

  What have we gained and what have we lost in our progress beyond the one-room school?

• A beautiful mess

  Remembering Dad in the aftermath of an ice storm.

• Staging hurt and hope

  Albany Park Theater Project’s God’s Work shows us the kind of world we live in.