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Publication Date: 2005
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Chalk Is Cheap: Nurturing Teachers in a Famine Culture Professional Starvation Is Gnawing Away At Teacher Motivation. Here Are Some Ways For Principals To Provide Needed Nutrition.
Schmidt, Laurel
Principal, v84 n3 p57-59 Mar-Apr 2005
Scarcity has been such a constant in education for so long that self-sufficient teachers routinely purchase classroom supplies at their own expense. Sometimes desperate measures are needed to obtain even the most basic equipment. I heard of a teacher whose chalkboard was so slick from years of use that it had become chalk-proof. Her first graders cringed every time she went for the chalk and produced a sound like squealing tires. When her pleas for a new board fell on deaf ears, she scrawled an obscenity across the surface with a permanent marker and promptly reported an act of vandalism. A new chalkboard appeared a few days later.
National Association of Elementary School Principals, 1615 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Tel: 800-386-2377 (Toll Free).
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Language: English
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