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"Falling slowly, you have a mermaid."

[One of my students in a particular course fellow sufferer who was tangled in her chair.]

The plan was of course another phrase, but by his own admission, she had a lump in the tongue today and earlier this already several times made in an unusual consequence of the test, this slip was then the crown.

"Deep water is still."

[One of my students at the vocational school on a very quiet, withdrawn classmate. The slip of the day.]

I confess I am a shirt carrier. T-shirts I do not like anyway. Classically, sometimes unusual, but it must be shirts. Because there is no alternative. As in suits but I'm less notorious. Suits are garments for special occasions, the university and the school and the daily monotony definitely are not among them. But perhaps I should probably reconsider. At least the use of a necktie would not be wrong at times.

This morning I'm sitting at the crack of dawn 'in the car, the students were waiting for me. To beat the clock acht lessons should beginnenl. Although I function then usually sufficient, but come home because of the children not so pretty to eat breakfast. "Eat muesli!" "Put your underwear on!" "Brush teeth, girls!" Something like that goes in the morning before breakfast nursery and the kindergarten with us. Clock must be delivered by seven of the first ten past then the second, otherwise the skin is not the point. The journey from Hamburg to Lauenburg drags on - 35 miles, constantly villages, everything turned down to 70. So the coffee is consumed in the car.

Well, now you know it, but what do the coffee consumed in the morning hamburgisch-Holstein border area with ties and to my propensity for shirts? What's up with the neologism "Schlemd" all about?

The Highway 25 between Hamburg and Geesthacht a samba line. "Uneven pavement," says the Englishman. It is scheduled to bring a coffee cup is not too often in harmony. The caffeinated drink spilled from the small opening of the Starbucks thermal mug and landed on my fresh shirt. Critical time without changing the way his shirt is then not at all well. Some curse tirades later and after a selective use of paper towel ("spots, not rub!" I had mother's well-meaning words in the ear) I wished for a new shirt - or a tie optional. I'm going to plug in any case such a future, you never know what's going to hit unfortunate chain of Straßenhuckeln and hot drinks can, and then I'm in doubt with a wise Schlemd.

"Oh, Angela Merkel, the old Stasi bitch who can lick."

[A man in a savvy gray sweatpants, a T-shirt with a completely reasonable free English print, white tennis socks with blue and red stripes and - I admit, it sounds so much prejudice, that it cries out to heaven, but it was so - flip-flops to a vendor at the flea market in Gartow, Wendland.]

Oops! Strong stuff, right?

This sentence will be thinging embedded in a context, so it can be duly appreciated.

The level at which this quote was picked up, offered for sale various computer games. The man who made the quote about falling Merkel wanted to acquire a well-indexed in the foreseeable future PC game that conjured the seller promptly from a box. There was an altercation, during which high-rocked both sides against each other. Basically, there was, however, agree that the government should prohibit any games, not the glorification of violence, which are brought into a relationship with school shootings. Eventually came the sentence.

True soul of the people at the flea market. Stammtisch slogans at the games booth. To make matters worse the man may be served all prejudices - linguistic, visual and olfactory . The real Dittsche!

Graffiti, taken under the bridge over the Elbe, B404, in Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein. Not only for the current economic situation, the degree of certainty that the swine flu will not become a pandemic disaster, or as a synonym for academic success in Germany suitable, but also for the percentage chance a welcome kiss of esteemed Frollein Sez get hold of, can be used.

Recently I wrote about the drug use in the United States. Now comes this map , presented by Nationalgeograf. Which region is most happy where dark clouds dwell in your head?

The map shows the percentage of residents who have felt the last time "frequent mental distress" (FMD) - frequent mental suffering with stress, depression and emotional problems.

Since this was a telephone survey, the team was the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)" relies on the honesty of the respondents. The darker the color on the map, the more depressed mood. It is striking that the JW Bush home state of Texas presented apparently without emotion - perhaps remember the cowboys and cowgirls do not have much, or it is same to them.

My advice: Stay away from the Mississippi Valley and the Appalachians away.

It is interesting now would be a meta-analysis: Where are taken which drugs and drug use wiie correlated with the mental status?

Hamburg is facing a massive restructuring. The schools should be reorganized. One of the - in my opinion - good ideas. Why is an attempt to do it differently than before, quite ingeniously, is telling you , Christa Goetsch, Hamburg's Senator for Education and Vocational Training .

I have been studying ... oh, we do so, minor delays are justified, then I work as a teacher at a vocational school and have children ... where was I? Oh yes, exactly, I study for upper secondary school teachers at vocational schools, specializing in health, and have me over the years of theorizing and practicing so made my thoughts on this topic.

Recently I found a note in my records, to which I have written about three years ago my idea. We should move things from time to time in the heart, reflect and reassess. I've done, but it does not change much in my opinion. At most, it's more like three minutes to midnight, when it comes to implementation. Time is running out - we give away potential squander.

Here are the thoughts that I wrote years ago. (I also remember exactly where: A seminar room in possibly ugliest building in the University of Hamburg, in which the professional educators are housed - a plain, functional building, inadequately equipped, and yet to this day, the liveliest, most inspiring place on the planet - because Wolfgang citizens the "fire" orators among the teachers, the seminar led.)

First Idea: education should not depend on the social and / or ethnic origin!
Because there should be no doubt. In Germany, the transfer of "bottom" to "top" is still a problem. language barriers stand in the way of genuine integration . Only those who are certainly moving in the terrain of the mother tongue, has a chance to learn a second language (in this case, our German language as a common basis). The immigrant must not be hidden as a stigma, but should be integrated, best early childhood even in education. Especially this time window in which children are especially curious and receptive, offers an incredible amount of potential. A mandatory pre-school kindergarten year, ideally, free of charge, with the inclusion of different cultures, but also a language support, in my opinion is indispensable.
German as a second language, however, requires a fundamentally different approach, also from the school. There must be places where German can be practiced, lived spoken. For that reason I am for the introduction of all-day schools, which offer the chance to absorb deficits may be present in the family - and I include both German and migrant families.

And one thing is essential: we are a country of immigrants with different ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. The so admit, is important for integrative processes.

Second Idea: Repeal of the different types of school, instead of common classes up to 10th Class!

My son is a model of primary school. There are preschoolers, first-and second-graders and third-and fourth-graders are taught together. Social skills, mutual assistance for the construction of knowledge and acceptance of responsibility towards others because are part of the learning culture. It works great. The graduate with a mother tongue other than German cut on average from when it comes to the command of the German second language. Children learn together, and with each other. The primary school, which will be introduced from 2010 in Hamburg allows, after all learning together to 6th Category. IMHO a step in the right direction.

Third Idea: teaching must be based on the acquisition of skills!

Professional, personal, social and methodological skills - we learn at university. There are a number of others who are using learning techniques, media, design etc. . deal The teaching of these skills has been the focus of school-based learning are. Today's children are tomorrow's adults. Many companies bemoan the lack of skills of school leavers. We can not and must not afford this army of some insufficiently-armed man!
I know that this word can also have a negative connotation, but: Human capital is the most important thing we have.

4th Idea: Individualized instruction that everyone there picks up where he stands!

Education, which measures all students with a degree, undifferentiated and without consideration of individual learning goals, can anyone get into the boat. In this way, some driving more and incidentally, at best, or they drift off and are out of reach, at worst. The high number of early school leavers without a diploma is a consequence. You can lie down a school biography, which satisfies the compulsory education, her purely on the number of schooling years without notable success were recorded. In principle, this is anti-social. We must look to promote and discover strengths, weaknesses, work on, and awaken the joy of learning. This is not abgespultem curriculum, which has only the curricular requirements in mind. Schools must teach students that they will be perceived seriously. (Eg My students have my home number, my ICQ and Email Address To put it bluntly. No, they do not abuse them, although many friends had these concerns, but just in case they have a contact person.)
No one can nothing! No one is useless. You just have to shake up the creativity. This is sometimes unusual methods required.
However, we have too many who have hatred for school, find the learning and teaching me sick view as enemies. Even at the elementary school my son is already sprayed it: "This school is shit".

5th Idea: more use out of your mind!

We are mad, if we do not pack the learning conducive Potetial of his mind with dread. "I did not understand now," Be-attacked in the truest sense of the word. Feel, smell, see, experience, taste - how it works with the learning!

6th Thought: We go early before too selective?

For many children has until the end of the 4th School year is not a sufficient tendency to one of the types of schools trained. You then have to sort into boxes is often (granted, not always) makes little sense. Shortly after my own primary school was the introduction of the transition cycle - apparently it was recognized that the change in the 5th Class often no information about the suitability can be made. But why must it be broken functioning learning groups? Then let them learn to prefer six years together. Or even better: 10 (See second thought.)

7th Idea: Get rid of the lessons that separates strictly according to subjects. Dear interdisciplinary teaching and with real problems!

Explained largely by himself, right? Case studies from real life to solve require different content from different disciplines. We had earlier called in math word problems. ("When three construction workers working on a construction site 6 days, how long will 17 construction workers working on the same site?"), However, required the responses I think too little cross-disciplinary content. Let's be honest: you buy one and rely solely on your computer skills? Even on such a real-life example can be made much more firmly: Healthy eating, reading, planning processes, writing, calculation ...

8th Idea: abolition of grades based purely on evidence, instead of introducing learning development reports!

I once wrote a term paper, added some kätzerisch, notes were issued in a few minutes. This was chalked up to me then, and from experience in several professional schools, I know it's not true. And yet: A grade does not tell much. Whenever I assign grades, it was the end of the probationary period, before a conference or on the exam, most students ask for a meeting to find out why. You want to know their strengths and their weaknesses. Where they need to start to change things? What they can encourage individual strengths? A report may make a little more work, but it is more meaningful.

9th Idea: promote your own thoughts and opinions!

School does not mean something to learn by heart and save pure facts. Learning is not, save for a good grade all in the short-term memory, retrieve it in a nutshell - and then forget again. Learning needs to be sustainable, focused and meaningful. The why has to be taught - why do I need it? When I think back to my history class ... oh my ... as no one has asked initially why the preoccupation with the past in the here and now and the future is important. There were queried dates, and even if the exact date was minimal wrong, it was considered wrong. Here, the view back to open the eyes of current problems, if it is filled with reflection, reflection and evaluation. Not nachkauen, is superior to related foreign exchange, but, and viewpoints. That's the way my son's school is already quite excellent - and he's only in the first Class!
Verknüpfendes learning with looks far beyond the obvious, the promotion of cognitive abilities and the claiming of opinions, even if they are perhaps inconvenient times - all this brings forward people.

10th Idea: learning can and should be fun!

What is the trend? Through to lifelong learning. For various reasons, it is important not to rest at some point on their laurels, put your hands in your lap and wait for the pension (which is otherwise safe). rewiring of the brain is possible at any age , and it is necessary. Those who learn with abdominal pain and rejection that does not get very far. Curiosity, creativity, desire is to promote the task of learning par excellence in the education system. If you ever had a training course or seminar for your visit, or the like so that on-and inspiring was like a waste paper collection, then you probably know what I mean. Or was the learning accordingly?

Sometimes you can even put a bag on his head, to reach people - after the laughter followed one of the most successful, most beautiful lessons of the last time. What you are doing is not anything to keep the learning group in a good mood ...

In this sense ...