Summer Training

Bodie

There are two weeks left in the Mississippi Teacher Corps initial summer training.  We have finished one week of the July session of Summer School.  In the afternoons, the first-years are working on extreme classroom management situations: sexual harassment, verbal confrontations, and potential physical confrontations.  It is important that we cover a lot of different situations through role-plays so that our teachers are prepared.  A lot of times, simply being confident that you know how to handle a situation prevents the situation from occurring.  As the surfing philosopher Bodie says in Point Break, "Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."