ERIC Number: EJ726021
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Jul-1
Pages: 2
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
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Dealing with the Elephant
Raymond, Michael
English Journal, v94 n6 p18 Jul 2005
The teacher comes to the classroom after a long medical leave taken for getting his legs amputated for having developed gangrene and follows his normal plan of teaching thus ignoring the various questions that his students may have about his physical disability. He realizes his mistake and in the next class uses his condition to explain a version of show and tell, where he explained about his wheelchair and computer-aided IV machine calling it an elephant and further he uses his medical and physical condition in phrases and short narrative stories. He emphasized that writing can be a means for dealing with problems.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Assistive Technology, Physical Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Coping, Writing (Composition)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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