Teacher education

The DCSF have published a review of the impact of drinking on young people.  These are the risk and protective factors the authors identify which are associated with alcohol misuse by children and young people.

Risk Factors

Protective Factors

Original source : http://www.drugeducationforum.com/blog/?ArticleID=… Filed under: Uncategorized

Youth and the schools population – EMCDDA.

EMCDDA have made the figures from the last school survey about drug use available on their website; from which comes the above table.

Original source : http://www.drugeducationforum.com/blog/?ArticleID=… Filed under: Uncategorized

A Cup of Chocolate.

This video isn’t exactly aimed at children and young people, but it’s an interesting take on talking about addiction from the Cumbria Users Project.
More on how it was developed in Drink and Drugs News.

Original source : http://www.drugeducationforum.com/blog/?ArticleID=… Filed under: Uncategorized

Drug Test Your Kids? (2).

The News of the World follows it’s sister paper the Times in reporting the marketing (presumably largely via mentions in newspapers) of drug testing kits to parents.
 
They do a classic balancing act by getting one person to set out the case for and another to argue against their use.
Setting out the case for drug testing your children is the paper’s agony aunt, Jane Butterworth:
I don’t

Original source : http://www.drugeducationforum.com/blog/?ArticleID=… Filed under: Uncategorized

World Drug Report 2009.

The UNODC have published their World Drug Report for this year and while I can’t claim to have read each of the 300+ pages I have been searching through for things that might be of interest to this audience.

Here’s a slideshow with what I found:

Original source : http://www.drugeducationforum.com/blog/?ArticleID=… Filed under: Uncategorized

During informal conversations with some writer-friends, we have been encouraging each other to write stories for children — the kind that will be used in classrooms. The kind that will contain our culture and the values that we want to instill in our children. This is even before the MLE because we see the dearth in materials for classroom use.

As to retelling of folktales, I don’t recall any occasion discussing it with writer friends, but VF and I had talked about it sometime last year, before the launch of the Cabie-PINILI. We wondered about copyright issues should we start re-telling Ilocano folk lit. He calls it sarsarita di ugma — the kind that we heard from our grandparents. In fact, he tried to write two from memory, and one of them I have posted in Bilingual Pen. We both think his version needs some tweaks to make it more interesting for children.

I also have copies of the books by eugenio (borrowed from the NCCA library) and there really are so many interesting materials in there!

I would be interested to make projects such as this, not only because VF and I had talked about doing something like it, but because I really dream of writing (or rewriting) stories for children because frankly, I don’t want to read stories about weak women and other stereotypical western stories to my would-be children!

My observation among our writers is that they are able to produce good materials when there are contests (this includes me), because contests are good motivators, not because of the awards, but because they set deadlines and guidelines. There’s something about deadlines that fire at the writers’ creative juices. In fact, without contests and deadlines, I don’t think I could have written as much stories as I did last year. All of my stories were written three days before the deadlines some, even less.

If we can come up with programs, contests, activities etc, that could trigger our writers’ creative juices, it would really be good.

(Sorry manong no ti la napnapanan ti kunkunak. Diak suren no nasungbatak ti kunkunam dita ngato, basta nagtypeak lattan. Thanks. I hope I made sense. Hehe).

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eatsbugs
June 29, 2007 at 11:14 am

Thanks for commenting on my feast! Hope your summer vacation is going/went well. You’ll have to give us a recap here, or link to your personal blog for that recap. Either way, I want to hear about it!

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sphyrnatude
June 20, 2007 at 7:28 am

I have to disagree with this one. Yes, Beth was definitely out of line – both ethically and proffesionally. As for Lisa, her is unfortunate, and I do sympathise with her position. However, as you stated, if she had come to you BEFORE the grades were finalized, you could have addressed these issues then. By waiting until after, Lisa has created her own problem.
Think about it: how many other students do you have that would benefit from an after-the-fact opportunity to make up unfinished (or at least unrecorded) work, or a chance to do abit more on the final exam? By extending this provoledge to Lisa you are unfairly penalizing the students that don’t have the same chance.
Another unfortunate reality is that in the real world, Lisa will have to deal with life crisis. If she is having problems at her job, and she wawits until her exit interview to explain the reasons, she’s not going to keep her job. If she is proactive, and makes sure her boss understands her situation, her boss (if a good one) will make whatever allowances possible to allow for her situation.

Unfortunately, one of the unspoken lessons that college is supposed to teach is that the individual has to deal with the results of their actions (or inaction).

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Day twenty-six in the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger series was yesterday and asked us to look at Day 26: Tag, you’re it . Essentially, Steve discussed what tags were, the importance of tags and using effective tags.

This was an easy one for me. On the external front, I have always tagged each entry with “virtual school”, “cyber school”, “high school” and “education” – as those were the places I wanted to show up in the Technorati searches. Beyond that I tag based upon the specific topic of the entry – usually including geographic tags, descriptive tags, organizational tags, tags for major events (e.g., conferences), etc.. I also use the same terms I use in my tags in the categories field in WordPress as well.

So, even if Technorati is showing me no love whatsoever (see Day Fifteen and Day Seventeen ), I’m still tagging…

UPDATE: Educator Announcements – November 26, 2008.

Thanks! I should let you know that the updated version is out in 2009 and has many more schools. It’s a very different world in (almost) 2009 than it was in 2006 when I wrote the first edition.

Comment by Tom Nixon — November 27, 2008 @ 5:14 pm | Reply

Voting For The Canadian Blog Awards.

Well, a few weeks back I mentioned the Canadian Blog Awards (see Canadian Blog Awards ). Jokingly I reminder folks that I was Canadian (I say jokingly because there wasn’t an education category and because much of my blogging content is not Canada – and lately is simply re-posts of things that people send me or things I find).

Anyway, it appears the joke is now on me as someone nominated me (and thanks to whomever that was).

The voting is available at:

Canadian Blog Awards – Vote 2008

You can find me under the Best Professional/Career Blog in the Lifestyle category. Polls for Round 1 close around the middle of Saturday, 29 November 2008 to give the folks at the Canadian Blog Awards time to count the votes and set-up the final round of voting.

So, since I’m there take a look at the other folks and if you feel I’m worth the click, by all means vote for Virtual High School Meanderings. And thanks in advance for your consideration.

Beginning with the Yahoo! News Alert virtual school.

Home, for some, is where the school is Villages Daily Sun Tue, 07 Nov 2006 6:18 AM PST

BUSHNELL — Children taught at home miss out on so many experiences that children who attend public school get to experience every day. Their parents are thrilled about it.

Moving on to the Yahoo! News Alert for cyber school.

Santorum, Casey race close; voters explain why Standard Speaker Sat, 04 Nov 2006 9:09 PM PST

Issues such as war in Iraq, taxes and immigration draw voters to either Rick Santorum or Bob Casey in the race for the U.S. Senate, but so do personal experiences.

General News Clarion News Tue, 07 Nov 2006 5:08 AM PST

KNOX – The Keystone School Board Oct. 16 agreed to enter a $7,500 agreement with the Intermediate Unit 5 for services aimed at drawing students back to the district who have enrolled in cyber charter schools.

Casey for Senate York Daily Record Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:21 PM PST

Robert Casey is a better fit ideologically for Pennsylvania than Rick Santorum. ·Residency: Sen. Rick Santorum has been hammered because he lives most of the year in a Virginia house with his family – rather than a modest home near Pittsburgh he also owns.

The Cyber School Option WNEP 16 Pennsylvania Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:58 PM PST

Some students in our area are getting their education not in the traditional classroom but over the internet.

Western Pa. voters show local passion in ousting Santorum, Hart phillyburbs.com Fri, 10 Nov 2006 1:11 PM PST

PITTSBURGH – The ballroom was decorated with red, white and blue balloons and posters of a smiling U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. But as his supporters waited anxiously for the results of his race with challenger Bob Casey on Tuesday night, the reality of what was to come started to settle in.

Something new this week, from eSchool News.

Study: Virtual-school enrollment explodesNov 7 FULL STORY

Enrollment in K-12 online courses in the United states has exploded in the past year, increasing by as much as 50 percent in some states, according to a new report from the North American Council for …

Similarly, from the ASCD SmartBrief.

Report: Virtual school enrollment soars

Thirty-eight states now regulate or sponsor virtual learning programs, while enrollment in online K-12 courses has soared over the past year, finds a report released by the North American Council for Online Learning at its annual Virtual School Symposium. The group also released the results of a separate survey that provided snapshots of virtual learning programs in 30 different countries. eSchool News (free registration) (11/7)

Minnesota district gets a boost from virtual schools

Launching two online schools for students statewide four years ago has turned out to be an enrollment and funding boon for Houston, Minn., a small district that until that time had been slowly but steadily losing students. Superintendent Kim Ross says the initiative — which has attracted about 850 virtual students, each accompanied by about $5,000 in state aid — has shielded the district from the fiscal pressures most districts face. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) (free registration) (11/9)

Next, the Google News Alert for virtual school.

Group behind Missouri’s virtual K-12 school launches website News-Leader.com – Springfield,MO,USA

… start offering K-12 courses online, has launched a website and an outreach campaign to keep families informed of developments with Missouri’s virtual school. …

And finally from the Google News Alert for cyber school.

Santorum, Casey race close; voters explain why Standard Speaker – Hazleton,PA,USA

… The children were enrolled in a cyber school until a Democrat on the school board in Penn Hills objected because the school district paid the tuition at the …

Cyber school support Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Pittsburgh,PA,USA

Cyber school is public school. My child happens … I am well aware not everyone should home-school or cyber-school their children. I don’t …

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