Upstream B2+ Teacher 39;s Book
Rachal Langwith
Recently, Kelli and I were talking about why teaching can be so exhausting. She used the analogy of Salmon swimming upstream to illustrate how we are so often doing what we do in the face of so many other contradictory and conflicting forces.
These forces may sometimes be policies and expectations put in place by governments and education departments based on decisions which are often made by people with little or no educational background apart from the fact that they went to school. In many cases, these policies and expectations are in complete conflict with what educators know to be true about children and learning. And so, most teachers play the game while still trying to do what they believe is right even though their ability to do so (and their time, space and energy to do is) is dwindling.
I recently heard this story about a village along the banks of a river. The current was very strong and potentially life-threatening. One day a fisherman saw a person crying for help while being swept downstream by the river. Luckily the fisherman was brave and also a very strong swimmer. He did not hesitate to jump in and pull the drowning person ashore. He carried the young mother to safety in the village center. The next day a teacher from upstream nearly drowned being carried by the same raging waters but was rescued by another villager and the villagers rejoiced. In fact, in the next days and weeks and years, more and more people nearly drowned being pulled downstream. The villagers worked together by setting up nets to catch them. Hundreds of thousands of people were being pulled from the water. Even children! The villagers set up shelters and hospitals. They were proud of their accomplishments in becoming more skillful in rescuing the folks who were swept downstream.
Overcrowding. Lack of materials. Lack of support. A general distrust of initiative. Those are just some of the vexations that fourth-year teacher Rebecca Solomon of Los Angeles High School says push new teachers out of high-poverty, high-minority, and low-achieving schools.
Studies have pointed to a number of factors that contribute to the difficulty of attracting and keeping teachers in such schools, including noncompetitive salaries and the characteristics of the students themselves. But increasingly, researchers have targeted working conditions as a vital piece in explaining why new teachers leave--or stay.
The following articles profile hard-to-staff schools in three different environments: an elementary school in the midsize city of Baton Rouge, La., a high school in rural Halifax, N.C., and a middle school in Philadelphia that has managed to build a stable teaching staff.
Their experiences underscore the complex challenges of making such places attractive to highly qualified teachers with other options. While each site has adopted strategies to lure teachers in and keep them there, administrators admit they are swimming upstream.
Thank you for shopping at NTI Upstream. You may return most items sold and distributed by NTI Upstream within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. A proof of purchase/receipt must be provided with the returned product in order to receive your refund.
You should expect to receive your refund within fifteen business days of NTI Upstream receiving your returned package, however, in most cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This period includes the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
All items that are returned must be in new or re-sell-able condition in order to receive a full refund. Damaged items, excluding damage caused by initial shipping from NTI Upstream's warehouse to your shipping address at time of purchase, are not eligible to receive a refund. Items returned after the initial 30-day period after purchase are not eligible for refund.
Webinars: NTI Upstream must receive a cancellation/request for refund at least 24 hours prior to the start of the Webinar. Refunds will not be given after a webinar is completed. It is each individual's responsibility to ensure that they have the proper technical capability to participate in the webinar. Unless experienced/exhibited/or demonstrated by NTI Upstream, technical difficulties are not the responsibility of NTI Upstream and will not warrant a refund. Please ensure that your spam filter or firewall is not limiting or blocking your access to the webinar.
If you paid by Credit Card, your refund will be issued back to your card
If you paid by Check, your refund will be issued by check
If you paid by Money Order, your refund will be issued by check
If you paid by Purchase Order, your refund will be issued by check
If you are currently receiving email from NTI Upstream, and do not want to receive additional content in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail to us at the above address or by calling us at the above telephone number.
NTI Upstream takes your online privacy very seriously. You may visit this site anonymously as often as you like without providing any personal information. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. There are times when we do need information to provide services that you request, and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations.
During your visits to our websites, you may request information, contact us, conduct transactions online, or sign up for an event or training. At that time, personal information will be needed in order to respond to your request. This site, www.ntiupstream.com, uses an SSL that encrypts the data collected.
There is also certain information that NTI Upstream collects about your computer hardware and software. This information may include your browser type, IP address, operating system, access times, domain name, and referring website addresses. This information is only used by NTI Upstream as general website statistics.
NTI Upstream also collects information regarding the pages that guests choose to view within our site. This type of site visitation data is identifiable only through a unique ID number, and is never linked to personal information unless a user consents.
We are always trying to enhance the user experience. In order to better serve our online guests, NTI Upstream may use software tools such as \"cookies\" to collect information about guests' browsing activities.
NTI Upstream and its IT partners collect and use your personal information. These services may include the display of customized content based upon the information NTI Upstream has collected. NTI Upstream does not use or disclose sensitive personal information without our guests' consent.
NTI Upstream does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. There might be occasions when NTI Upstream may contact you on behalf of external business partners regarding particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
The protection of children on the Internet is important to our organization. For that reason, we do not intentionally collect information on our websites from those guests we know are under the age of 13. It is advised that parents be proactive and limit website access to their children by installing special filtering and protective software.
A child can unknowingly visit inappropriate websites and be exposed to unnecessary risks. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects children under the age of 13 from the online collection of personal information. To find out additional information about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission's web site for children's privacy at
Our website contains links to sites that are not under our control, even though they may use the NTI Upstream name or logo on their site through an agreement with us. In most cases, links to non-NTI Upstream websites are provided solely as resources to information on topics that may be useful to the users of www.ntiupstream.com. Because third party web sites have different privacy policies and/or security standards governing their sites, we advise you to review their privacy policies and terms and conditions prior to providing any personal information.
NTI Upstream will occasionally update this information. If there are changes to the above statements regarding how NTI Upstream will use your personal information, NTI Upstream will prominently post these changes prior to implementing them. Thank you for taking the time to visit our site and we encourage you to periodically review our site and this document to see how we are working to protect your information.
For example, there can be unwanted and detrimental inconsistencies in lessons. Here, we can go from downstream inconsistency to upstream clarity, and we can keep asking: how can we as leaders keep bringing clarity, constantly communicating, revisiting, reiterating and reinforcing the most important routines with the rationale for how consistency supports each other?
Plenty of feedback to staff who seem to be misfiring in lessons or beyond, might not have to be given at all, if in the first place our support around teaching involves excellent support, examples, live modelling demos. We can go from downstream, responsive feedback to upstream, preemptive support.
Suspensions and exclusions are downstream. Combining a behaviour curriculum, wellbeing curriculum, resilience curriculum, CPD, role-modelling, listening, understanding, resilience mentoring, pre-teaching, conversations, consistency, reading intervention, safeguarding, early help, sleep/wellbeing knowledge, parent/family support, career mentoring, disability screening, graduated response, specialist expertise, excellent alternative provision, pupil support units, off-site directions are upstream.
c80f0f1006