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Poetry Contest: Write a Haiku on How We Can Improve Education
Elana Leoni
Director of Social Media Strategy and Marketing @Edutopia, edcamp organizer
Posted on 3/31/2011
Poetry Contest: Write a Haiku on How We Can Improve Education
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate the month, we're having a fun poetry contest.
Here's how it works:
:: Post your haiku on how to best improve education below
:: Invite others to vote on your haiku. To vote, simply click on the thumbs up icon in the top right-hand corner of the post.
:: At the end of the month, the top three haikus with the most "thumbs ups" will have their haiku promoted on edutopia.org's homepage and in our enewsletter! Plus, you'll get a fabulous bag of art/poetry-inspired goodies (worth over $100!)!
Let the Haikus begin! Deadline is April 30 at midnight PDT.
P.S.: A good reminder about haikus: Haiku poetry type is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
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Give Students Confidence
did I do this right
yes you did now explain how
I knew all along
Teach them today. Prepare
Teach them today.
Prepare them for tomorrow
Lives full of changes
Look within a child; what we
Look within a child;
what we should emphasise is
his most inner worth.
Realising his dreams,
teach him for who he is and
who he wants to be.
Without agendas,
beyond jingles and slogans,
he's all that matters.
To be a teacher is to know
To be a teacher
is to know your pupils more
than everything else
standardized madness equals
standardized madness
equals indoctrination
not education
Teach by Learning
Inspire, evoke, plan.
Model discernment and growth.
Incorporate praise.
Scandinavian Wisdom
Give gifted teachers
A nice paycheck and freedom;
It works for Finland!
It takes a village Stop
It takes a village
Stop protecting status quo
Think outside the box
Adults should ask this: Not
Adults should ask this:
Not what do all children need;
What does THIS child need?
Technology
Technology now
It's in their world and their hands
Let's start using it!