http://mtc.vox.com/library/posts/tags/education/page/1/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... en Vox Sat, 24 May 2008 10:38:30 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss education http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/governor-william-winter.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/governor-william-winter.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/governor-william-winter.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 24 May 2008 10:38:30 -0700 Former Mississippi Governor William Winter gives the keynote address at the 2005 Mississippi Teacher Corps Reunion. The next MTC Reunion is scheduled for July 10th and 11th, 2009. Interesting side-note, Gov. Winter served as a mentor to former P... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/governor-william-winter.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900fad68a03fe0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> president reunion education mississippi bill clinton governor mississippi teacher corps william winter http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/one-teacher.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/one-teacher.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/one-teacher.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 22 May 2008 06:42:13 -0700 Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, talks about the power of one teacher to change a life. See more clips from the same talk here. See Governor William Winter talking about, I presume, the same student here (from the ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/one-teacher.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900fa9677d06d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education mississippi teacher corps william winter dr. andy mullins http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/party.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/party.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/party.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 14 May 2008 15:52:51 -0700 Another hypothetical from one of the first-years: After a long day at work you are invited to a party at a social club in the small, rural town where you teach and live. Upon arrival at the party's venue the first person you see is a student of... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/party.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900fad68704040005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education hypothetical mississippi teacher corps http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 May 2008 10:19:50 -0700 Three links about teaching in America: High School teacher fired after these photos appeared online. Yet more evidence of America's insane prudishness... How do you, as a teacher, feel about cell phones in school? Would you feel differently ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf70fe70003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> links education http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:54:45 -0700 MAEP, the basic funding formula for K-12 education in Mississippi, was fully funded today. Key quote: This is the first time lawmakers have fully funded MAEP, a complex formula that provides money to schools to meet midlevel performance goals, ou... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f325d80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics education mississippi finance maep http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-box-cutter.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-box-cutter.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-box-cutter.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:14:41 -0700 Hypothetical: One of your best students, a conscientious and hard-working senior with good grades, a great attitude, and a full academic scholarship to Mississippi State, stops by your classroom during homeroom and asks to speak to you in the hal... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-box-cutter.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48d0ccd790001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education hypothetical http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/answer-c.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/answer-c.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/answer-c.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:55:25 -0700 Hypothetical: You are a first-year MTC teacher. While proctoring a state test another teacher comes in the room and tells the students, "Question 12 is tricky. Be careful. Answer 'c' is incorrect." The teacher leaves and the students go back t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/answer-c.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cedc9a10002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education hypothetical http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/advice.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/advice.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/advice.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:00:50 -0700 You are a young, female teacher from "up north." You teach high school Biology in a small Delta community with one church for every 30 residents. Several of your female students have discreetly asked you for advice on various birth-control measu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/advice.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398ef0eb00004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education hypothetical http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-12th-man.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-12th-man.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-12th-man.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:24:41 -0700 I like these "hypothetical" situations, so much so that I may try to incorporate them into the summer training. At the very least, I've found next month's blog topic. In any event, here is another one: You are the head coach of the high school... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-12th-man.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398eecf910005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> basketball education hypothetical http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/hypothetical-redux.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/hypothetical-redux.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/hypothetical-redux.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:47:50 -0700 Follow-up to the previous post. Same situation, but instead of being a nice kid, he's a jerk: makes fun of the other students; disrespectful to the teacher; disrupts the learning environment. Do you pass him now? <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/hypothetical-redux.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398eea2c40004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education hypothetical