Tag Archive for ‘classroom behavior’ at The Core Knowledge Blog

Tag Archive for 'classroom behavior'

This Is Your Brain On Caffeine. Any Questions?

Published by Robert Pondiscio on May 12, 2008 in Students. 0 Comments

The Partnership for a Drug Free America has been warning parents about prescription drug abuse in recent months, but the Sacramento Bee points out today’s drug of choice among teens is “perfectly legal and packaged in an aluminum can with a catchy name like Bawls or Amp or Hype.”

In the last year, the Bee reports, the California Poison Control System has handled 26 calls about dangerous reactions to energy drinks in kids, most of them ages 14 and 15. And it’s not just teenagers who are drawn to the hyper-caffeinated drinks. “I am seeing kids drinking them on the elementary school campus,” said Patty Mancuso, a past president of the California School Nurses Organization. “What we see are kids who come to school who have a lot of caffeine in their system. They get jittery and they have poor behavior.”

Update: Same story, different state (Oregon).

Teachers on the Verge (and Beyond)

Published by Robert Pondiscio on March 9, 2008 in Teaching. 4 Comments

Wander on over to Joanne Jacobs and Dangerously Irrelevant for one of the more interesting and emotional discussions about life in the classroom you’re likely to read. It started when DI last week posted a collection of You Tube student-filmed videos of teachers losing their cool over classroom disruptions. Joanne blogged about it this weekend and both sites are now crackling with debate. Is it the teacher’s fault? The students? The parents? Is video taping student activism or turning provocation into a sport for entertainment.

Watch the videos and read the posts, which feel like nothing less than a contemporary education rorschach test.