NIUMA MOHAMED
A proud mother of a sweet teenager and cute toddler. I like politics and current affairs. Family is the most important part in my life but I do manage to live a composed life along with my profession. I make time for vacations & social networks. I watch movies with my daughter, spend play time with my toddler and enjoy outings with my hubby and family.
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The Ron Clark Story
The movie was inspiring. Mr. Clark’s passion for teaching was evident throughout the story. He gave up his stable job at his hometown to move to Harlem, a city completely unknown to him, and provide his services to those children. Upon getting there, Mr. Clark was determined to find a teaching position after so many failed attempts. His decision to choose the ‘worst’ class and how he dealt with the many situations that arose continue to demonstrate his love for teaching.
The movie provides a good example of a teacher supporting the standards of this profession. Mr. Clark illustrated what it means to be a teacher. He had the knowledge in the subjects needed to teach the 6th grade level. The families and community was involved. He visited the parents of his students to try and include them with the student’s learning. At the same time, Mr. Clark had a firsthand look into their backgrounds. The music of the age group and area include hip hop and rap which was incorporated to encourage active learning when studying the topic on the U.S. presidents.
It was not easy, but the confidence in himself and his students helped Mr. Clark look forward to the better days. I would place Mr. Clark on standard 2 that states, “Understanding how students, families and communities affect the culture of a school.” It seemed the main problem with the students in this class was the view everyone around them had about them. The society has sort of labeled them through the test scores, the school labeled them as the ‘worst’ the students because of those scores, and their families did not seem to recognize much potential in the students. Mr. Clark was sensitive that it was not really the learning part, but their acceptation of the view everyone had for them.
He was able to change this idea by his belief in the capability of every single one of the students. It was achieved by the improvements in the classwork and ultimately through the test scores that labeled them in the first place. It was the first time I had heard of teacher accountability. Mr. Clark displayed this through his teaching, the students learning, and changing the view. His effective teaching resulted in the students learning. I’m sure that this changed the quality of education provided for students with slower learning abilities at that school. He gave evaluation tests to see how much the students were learning. Mr. Clark continually assessed his teaching and found new, creative ways to hold the students attention.
Mr. Clark’s commitment to teaching must be the reason he chose to enter the field of education. This decision is seen throughout the movie. Mr. Clark is able to engage the student’s attention (after so many failed attempts), the learning of all the students have improved, and his role as the leader of the classroom has been gained.
What is the root cause of the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Israel occupied the Palestinian lands, oppressed the Palestinian people and deprived them from their basic rights; here is a brief history of the conflict: The seed of this conflict was planted in 1882 when the Zionist movement started with a group of secular European Jews to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Up to the 1930's, Jews lived in peace with Muslims and Christians in Palestine for about 1300 years (except when the European Crusaders killed all the Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem 900 years ago). Most of the Jews who lived in Palestine till then were Arabs. When Britain occupied Palestine during WWI, they gave a declaration (Balfour Declaration1917) to the Jews that they will give them a homeland in Palestine. There was one big problem however: the land already was populated by indigenous Arabs (Mostly Muslim, but with significant Christian 6% and Jewish minorities 10%). Britain opened the door to Jewish immigration from Europe, which escalated during WWII and after because of the Holocaust. In 1948 the Jews made up 33% of the population of Palestine, but owned only 5% of the land. The UN voted to split Palestine 55% for the Jews and 45% for the Palestinians to establish a Jewish and Arab States in Palestine, and to make Jerusalem an internationally controlled area. War broke out between the Arabs and Jews in 1948 and the Jews occupied nearly 80% of Palestine and established Israel on it. In the process Israel ethnically cleansed 80% of the Palestinians from the land they occupied and destroyed and depopulated more than 400 Palestinian villages, massacred thousands of Palestinians and made 3/4 million Palestinians refugees. The UN voted in 1948 (Security Council Res. 93 and General Assembly Res. 194) to tell Israel to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, but until today Israel never complied. In 1967 Israel militarily occupied the remainder of Palestine (The West Bank and the Gaza Strip). The Security Council again voted in 1967 and 1973 that Israel return to the 1967 borders and allow the refugees to return, but Israel never complied (Security Council Res. 237, 242, 338). This gives you a brief history of the roots of the problem. The Palestinians now negotiate to get only the lands occupied in 1967 back to establish their own state on it, and for Israel to allow the deposed people in 1948 and 1967 to return to their original homes. Israel is only accepting to return only parts of the lands occupied in 1967. The land they accept to return has no borders with the outside world (making it an effective jail guarded by the Israelis). They also refuse to allow the refugees to return. They also have built many illegal settlements in the West Bank and planted nearly 350,000 Israeli extremists in them. Israel has taken control of nearly 5/6 of the water resources in the West Bank, and has built an apartheid wall that dwarfs the Berlin wall around and through Palestinian cities and villages in the West Bank. They also refuse to return East Jerusalem, which is part of the West Bank, to the Palestinians. Again this is a very brief background. It in no way describes the daily suffering, abuse, humiliation, terror and deprivation of basic human rights the Israelis inflict on the Palestinians.
Related:
Israeli army targeting children:
http://israelingaza.wordpress.com/2009/0...
Israel war crimes in Gaza video:
http://www.supportgaza.com/gazavideo/
What Israel doesn't want the world to see:
http://sites.google.com/site/forampmfala...
What America doesn`t Want You To Know AboutIsrael: