Cheating in high school.

Read this article: http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/March/Schools-Attempt-to-Redefine-the-iPod-War.html
(For some reason, I don't have a hyperlink option..)
However, this article was found from the NCTE blog and is about how some classrooms are allowing students to have Ipods in study halls and break periods. I didn't realize that most school implement rules against having them as a prevention of theft and cheating! This issue of cheating is something we haven't talked about in our education classes yet!

How as a teacher do you prevent this from happening? I think back to my high school years and I remember students would cheat ALL the time (I cannot emphasize enough)!! Teachers were so oblivious about this too. I remember this one time, I actually wrote an annoymous letter to my teacher telling him that half of the class would always cheat on vocabulary tests. After I sent it, he had his eyes fixed on us like we were a steak dinner! Does it come to this--where we have to watch our students the entire period? Do we distribute different tests? Do we trust them? Do we test hard? I guess the answer lies in the way you handle classroom management, but in my experience of witnessing all the cheaters while in high school, I'm afraid that we cannot escape this problem.

Week 15. ALREADY??

Wow. I cannot believe it is already the end of another semester! I am getting closer and closer to student teaching and I feel more and more ready! I'm so glad that Kent State incorporated our Multi-Modal Literacies class to the catalog year. I think we would have missed out on a lot of valuable information if this change didn't take place.
I've come to the realization that the classroom is evolving. Whether it be our technology, our classroom activities, or our wrinkles, as a teacher, we gotta be ready to be on our feet. We have to stay up to date with the times and connect with our future students.
In my experience with Dr. Kist, I've acquired so much information and outlooks on my perspective classroom that will definitely assist me in maintaining a sense of professionalism, modernism, and optimism with my future staff and students. I look so forward to being that teacher that is approachable, knowledgeable, and committed to granting all students to an equal education.
We've come so far in class. From blogs, to wikis, to graphic novels, to classroom games, I've got a handful of things that can be applied to my English classroom! Thank you Dr. Kist for an excellent start to an excellent journey!