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Poetry Contest: Write a Limerick on How We Can Improve Education
Elana Leoni
Director of Social Media Strategy and Marketing @Edutopia, edcamp organizer
Posted on 4/2/2010
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate the month, we're having a fun poetry contest.
Here's how it works:
:: Post your limerick on how to best improve education below :: Invite others to vote on your limerick. 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 five limericks with the most "thumbs ups" will have their limerick promoted on edutopia.org's homepage and in our enewsletter! Plus, you'll get a fabulous bag of art/poetry-inspired goodies!Let the Limericks begin! Deadline is April 30 at midnight PDT.
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There once was a national aim
Fair education for all to attain
They started to test
Forgetting all else
Teachers they decided to blame.
... Unless They Know How Much You Care
It is true that each child needs a voice
fellow teachers, first give them more Choice
then, Love each one a lot
next, Give each all you've got
they'll Learn, and you will rejoice!
Choice
There once was a teacher whose choice
Was in how to give students more voice.
A say in their learning
To keep them all yearning,
"Yes, yes!" agreed Principal Noyes.
P.S. That really is my
P.S. That really is my principal's name. ;)
Very nice!!!!
Very nice!!!!
Lifelong Learning is COOL NEW Idea!
The kids today seem hard to teach
Old tricks successful before cannot reach
It’s time for new ideas out of the box
Change your thinking and throw out the clocks
Lifelong learning is the cool NEW idea, even at the beach!
One-on-one or some
Teaching and learning are best done one-on-one,
or at the very least in a classroom of "some,"
there will never be an educational solution,
if we keep making our community schools large "institutions."
We need to keep our schools and class sizes small,
to benefit students, teachers, parents -- us all!
How to help
We teachers don’t work in a bubble
If we find ourselves in trouble
We can collaborate
And commiserate
And in our efforts, redouble
There once was a teacher who couldn't teach
He became an admin who couldn't think
He said he came to help not preach
But all he did was cause moral to sink
clock
Hickory Dickory do away with the clock
every childs brain to un-lock
teach em all teach em well
leave none behind
to live a hellish life
try as we may try as we might
leave none behind
raise all to the light
show them the way
teach them to read
give them something to fight with
knowledge, intelligence, love and kindness
Change the world one child at a time
God did why can't we?
Jody Robbins