Deven Black

Location:
Nyack, NY
Gender:
Male
Service:
Middle School
Status:
Currently Teaching

Deven's Activity

Deven posted in: "I just graduated with an Ed.D. and I cant get a job.".

What state are you in? In NY there are two types of administrative credentials, one (SBA) for principals and other school-based administrators a...

July 24
Deven posted in: "What is the most daring, extreme activity you have done?".

apple4blea says ...

 

Would 30 hours of labor and delivery count?

Thi...

Deven posted in: "Social Studies/History Teachers".

Joel's answer reminds me of one of the most important things I try to teach my students about history, and that is that it didn't all happen in ...

Deven posted in: "List the attributes of the "best" teacher at yo...".

All the above, plus a mentor to others.

Deven posted in: "The Struggling Student".

I give the student opportunities to shine, to succeed in tasks that require effort but are within his or her ability level. I also make sure the...

Professional Information

Work

Employer:
NYCDOE MS127
Position:
Special Education Teacher
Industry:
Education, Training, and Library
Location:
Bronx, NY

Education

School:
Fordham Univeristy GSE, MS-Teaching
School:
SUNY Empire State College, BS

Personal

About Me:
I came to teaching as a profession at age 50 after finally realizing I've been teaching all my life in one way or another. Prior to teaching I was a political activist, news reporter on radio and for newspapers, an advertising copy writer, voice-over artist, bartender, restaurant manager and speech writer. The most common comment about me is that I am intellectual. Some mean it as a compliment, others see it another way. I am also accused of being funny. I think that's mostly a compliment.
Hobbies:
Reading, Animals/Pets, Cooking, Music, Computer Activities, Dining Out, Writing
Favorite Movies:
Guys & Dolls, A Night at the Opera
Favorite Music:
I have never found a form of music that I can't find something to like in.

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    c_gempz

    13 days ago

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    Goodness is the only investment that never fails." --- Henry David Thoreau --- Submitted by Richie Satyanjali --- I
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    c_gempz

    19 days ago

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    Your friends are very precious things; Their love is like the rarest gem. But friends are hard to find and keep Unless you are a friend to them. Ann Cragg
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    c_gempz

    about 1 month ago

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    "Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."-- Lida Clarkson
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    c_gempz

    2 months ago

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    “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    Jerome Bruner on the purpose of education: "It is to teach him to participate in the process that makes possible the establishment of knowledge. We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as a historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product."
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    "Should we privatize our schools? Should we have national standards of assessment? How should we use computers? How shall we teach reading? And so on. . . . These questions evade the issue of what the schools are for. It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise of how something should be done, afraid and incapable of thinking about why." - - Neil Postman, The end of education
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    "Because we are engaged in a day-by-day process of self-invention - - not discovery, for what we search for does not exist until we find it - - both the past and the future are raw material, shaped and re-shaped by each individual... Composing a life involves continual re-imagining of the future and re-interpretation of the past to give meaning to the present, remembering best those events that prefigured what followed, forgetting those that proved to have no meaning within the narrative." - - Bateson, M.c, (1989). Composing a life. New York: Penguin
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    c_gempz

    3 months ago

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    The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    “Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.” --Robert M. Hutchins
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." --Rene Descartes, mathematician, philosopher “Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.” --Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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    Deven

    3 months ago

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    “The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing." --Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
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    Jill

    4 months ago

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    Creative lesson plan!