(I can't even bring myself to put a name on what happened yesterday)

Please come to the forum and post any ideas you have on how to discuss this event with students in class, presumably tomorrow. Is there a "science" angle to the story that isn't morbid or tasteless? Or forget science and discuss on a strictly personal level? Should students spend time in every class talking about it, or limit discussion to the first couple of periods?

-- Michael Gatton (mg143@aol.com), September 12, 2001

Answers

I came across two articles that may help us get through this in some small way.

Article: http://www.trauma-pages.com/bombing.htm

Website for National Association of School Psychologists (see "Coping with Crisis" section)

http://nasponline.org

It's just a resource.

-- Stacy Douglas (stacysher@aol.com), September 12, 2001.

I'm passing on this link from John Cafarella. AmericaRespon ds from PBS has some lesson ideas if you feel the need to continue discussing the events of 9/11 with your students. There are some good ideas also from the links above that Stacy supplied.

Anyone want to comment on how it felt to talk to the students today? I was unable to see my class because of the 2 hour delay and frankly I'm glad -- I seem unable to break my mind away from this event and focus on anything else. I also don't know my students yet and would feel wierd trying to connect with them on such an emotional level so early in the school year. So I would have had a hard time teaching a regular science lesson and I would have had difficulty talking to students about the event. But that's just me...

-- Michael Gatton (mg143@aol.com), September 13, 2001.