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Deven
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Deven: Friends
Deven: Groups
- New York Teachers
- New York City
- Special Education Teachers and/or Support Staff
- Classroom Creativity
- I Love Being a Teacher
- How One Teacher.....
- Brain Food: eating to teach, teaching to
- The Apple Advisory Board
- Teknowledg-E-Matters in Education
- The Photography Workshop
- Summer Fun
- Filipino Educators
- ie3 Network (One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education Network)
- A New Variety of Apple
- The Book Writers
- Can't Live Without My Pet(s)!
- Teach 'R' Us
- For Those Who Teach & Parent
- Positive Social Change
- Weekend Warriors*
- Second Language, EL, BCLAD
- Gifted Education
Deven: Quiz Results
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How Outgoing Are You? taken 4 months agoYou are mostly outgoing |
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Are You at Risk for Burnout? taken 6 months agoYou probably are not at risk for burnout |
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Could You Pass 5th Grade? taken about 1 year agoExcellent |
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Which Celebrity Teacher Are You? taken about 1 year agoI teach like: Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society |
Deven Black
- Location:
- Nyack, NY
- Gender:
- Male
- Service:
- Middle School
- Status:
- Currently Teaching
Deven: Activity
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I would like to invite you to visit my school in New York City. It is a middle school (students 11-14 or so) in a high-poverty urban setting, but s... |
Deven: References
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philip panaritis
ny City DOE, supervisorSummary: Deven is very conscientious and hard-working. He is a self-starter and extremely generous with his colleagues. He has a rare grasp of history, geography and current events.
Personal
- About Me
- I came to teaching as a profession at age 50 after finally realizing I've been teaching all my life in one way or another. Prior to teaching I was a political activist, news reporter on radio and for newspapers, an advertising copy writer, voice-over artist, bartender, restaurant manager and speech writer. The most common comment about me is that I am intellectual. Some mean it as a compliment, others see it another way. I am also accused of being funny. I think that's mostly a compliment.
- Hobbies:
- Reading, Animals/Pets, Cooking, Music, Computer Activities, Dining Out, Writing
- Favorite Movies:
- Guys & Dolls, A Night at the Opera
- Favorite Music:
- I have never found a form of music that I can't find something to like in.
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metot
19 days ago
90 comments
Hello Deven, thanks for accepting:)
weker
about 1 month ago
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Hi, how are you?
chekae
3 months ago
308 comments
MyNiceSpace.com
SBonilla07
about 1 year ago
578 comments
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A TEACHER, though, awakens your own expectations." _Patricia Neal_
c_gempz
about 1 year ago
396 comments
Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
--- Henry David Thoreau --- Submitted by Richie Satyanjali --- I
c_gempz
about 1 year ago
396 comments
Your friends are very precious things;
Their love is like the rarest gem.
But friends are hard to find and keep
Unless you are a friend to them. Ann Cragg
c_gempz
about 1 year ago
396 comments
"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."--
Lida Clarkson
c_gempz
about 1 year ago
396 comments
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
Jerome Bruner on the purpose of education: "It is to teach him to participate in the process that makes possible the establishment of knowledge. We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as a historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product."
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
"Should we privatize our schools? Should we have national standards of assessment? How should we use computers? How shall we teach reading? And so on. . . . These questions evade the issue of what the schools are for. It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise of how something should be done, afraid and incapable of thinking about why." - - Neil Postman, The end of education
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
"Because we are engaged in a day-by-day process of self-invention - - not discovery, for what we search for does not exist until we find it - - both the past and the future are raw material, shaped and re-shaped by each individual... Composing a life involves continual re-imagining of the future and re-interpretation of the past to give meaning to the present, remembering best those events that prefigured what followed, forgetting those that proved to have no meaning within the narrative."
- - Bateson, M.c, (1989). Composing a life. New York: Penguin
c_gempz
about 1 year ago
396 comments
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
--Robert M. Hutchins
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
--Rene Descartes,
mathematician, philosopher
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.”
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Deven
about 1 year ago
598 comments
“The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
--Sigmund Freud,
founder of psychoanalysis