Jason Kopanke’s blog

Blog 41: Comparison of two consecutive first years of school, examination of the change

2009-09-01T02:04:16Z

Blog 41: Comparison of two consecutive first years of school, examination of the reason for the improvement The first week of school this year has been worlds better than that of last year. Last year I started on the wrong foot. I was ill prepar...

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BLOG 39: Teacher Skills

2009-06-02T18:11:29Z

June 2, 2009 The three teacher skills I want to practice and improve upon this summer at the MTC Summer School… and one strength I have and will employ The three things I want to improve on for this summer school session are to improve que...

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Blog 37. Swine Flu

2009-05-02T20:27:03Z

Swine Flu The truth is the swine flu is here. Originating from Mexico, the swine flu is spreading across the country from tourists escaping the wet northern spring. Returning home, these unsuspecting vectors are spreading the disease across t...

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Blog 36: To strip search or not to strip search, that is the question...

2009-04-25T19:08:57Z

April 25, 2009 This article is talking about the legal ramification of strip-searching a student for contraband. The article details a case where an honor student was suspected for dealing drugs and she was thoroughly searched for these susp...

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Blog 35: The Second Years!

2009-04-17T01:52:25Z

I always find this kind of letter difficult to write. What can I say about the second years that has not already been said? This program tends to attract positive, outgoing people with a desire to help and possessing the naivety that they believe...

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Blog 34: What the students say about Mr. K.

2009-04-16T03:12:48Z

Student 1 Grade 12 Female in my Biology 1 Class (Student has failed each term) From my perspective, Mr. Kopanke is a good teacher. He makes us write too much, but I enjoy coming in here. He sometimes talks weird by deepening his voice. He al...

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Blog 33: Authentic Assessments

2009-04-10T14:00:09Z

Authentic assessment, alternative assessments, application based learning- these are three different names for the same things. The concept behind these learning strategies is instead of giving the traditional facts based test a project can be mor...

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Blog 31: A Portrait of Mississippi

2009-03-27T10:32:32Z

A Portrait of Mississippi This paper peaked my interest on a lot of levels. It reviewed the Human Development Index relative to the various states in the country. This index gives a relative standard of living by taking into account life expe...

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Blog 30: Two Maps

2009-03-26T02:35:02Z

Map One: I picked this map because I thought it was interesting. This map showed where the standard of living was the highest in Mississippi. As mentioned previously this standard of living is an index based upon expected income, education attain...

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Blog 29: Summer School

2009-03-01T02:25:41Z

February 28, 2009 Summer School Unfulfilled Promise Reflection: This article was an interesting read. As the title would suggest it examined how various states run summer school. It was particularly focused on the Chicago summer school prog...

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