Just wanted to put this short video on my blog and to give a shout out to all Special Education teachers. I have watched this video of Chris Ulmer several times and always get inspired by what he is doing. I know that over 8.000 people have seen this video and thank ABC News for bringing teachers like Mr. Ulmer into the news. I hope his message is contagious. I also know that there are thousands of teachers who go above and beyond teaching their subjects to teach the child and I hope other news programs follow ABC and we see videos like this flooding facebook, twitter, and all other social media sites.
What I love so much about this video clip is that while Mr. Ulmer is showing the video where he spends time in class complimenting each student, there is a story in text playing that has an undeniably powerful message. While he is complimenting his students, one by one, the texts says, "Instead of talking about peace, love, and harmony, I display peace, love, and harmony." The text goes on to remind us that, "hate is a learned behavior." With all the tragedy we have been hearing in the news recently, this seems to be something we should be teaching and modeling even more than math, spelling, science, etc.
Like I said, I hope that we keep seeing more and more stories like this. I know there are so many teachers like Mr. Ulmer out there. Everyone needs to know how great he is at his job! Here is another article about him: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/florida-teacher-starts-day-complimenting-students/story?id=35259600
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