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Effects of Shared Curriculla

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Thomas Mets

This was an incident I observed while shadowing a teacher (let’s call her Ms. Smith) for mandatory observation houts. In the school, there was a decree that everyone in the seventh grade read The Outsiders, even though half the students … Continue reading →

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Philosophy on Teaching

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Thomas Mets

This was from a piece I wrote for a grad school assignment on my philosophy of teaching, especially in a multicultural setting… There are currently two conflicting developments within the field of education. On the one hand, policies such as … Continue reading →

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Student Notes on Dead Poets Society

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Thomas Mets

These were based on some notes I took when I was doing observations in my teaching program. This was with 7th Grade classes that were watching Dead Poets Society after taking a rather exhausting statewide assessment. The observations crystallized a … Continue reading →

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The Authority Who Tells You To Question All Authority: Foucault and Postmodernism

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Thomas Mets

I wrote this for a class on the sociological, historical and philosophical foundations of education. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, significant in the postmodernist movement. His writings on power and desire have been applied to education, a topic he … Continue reading →

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H is for Hornbook, M is for Moses, N is for New England Primer

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Thomas Mets

This was a mini-essay I wrote for one of my classes on the history of education in the United States. New England has a tradition of valuing education, sometimes for reasons that wouldn’t be as socially acceptable to hear from … Continue reading →

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On Reading 25 of The Best Short Stories Ever

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Thomas Mets

Recently, I came across a list of the 200 greatest short stories. I did the obvious thing and went through the anthologies in my house, reading a lot of the short stories. Some thoughts, mostly in the order in which I … Continue reading →

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