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    Lesson Plans for Life
    Lesson Plans for Life
    Lesson Plans for Life
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    Lesson Plans for Life

    By Gary Millen

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    In his writings, lifelong educator Gary Millen reveals how helping others became a richly rewarding aspect of his life. His teaching, mentoring and civic involvement exposed him to all ages and backgrounds throughout his education career. Starting at an early age and continuing throughout his life, his stories provide inspiring and relevant lessons for parents, students, fellow educators, and just about anyone else who cares about their own or others' success. Writing this book is but one example of how he still finds time to follow his passion for helping others.

    Seeing our collective need to do so much more to prepare today's youth and tomorrow's leaders was the principal motivation for this book. Providing the lacking but vital life skills could prevent many from making the wrong choices that haunt so many for their entire lives. The secrets of success need not and should not be secrets! The author hopes to show how proactivity on his part and on the part of others was always the right approach.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTellwell Talent
    Release dateJul 21, 2021
    ISBN9780228848325
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      Lesson Plans for Life - Gary Millen

      Copyright © 2021 by Gary Millen

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Tellwell Talent

      www.tellwell.ca

      ISBN

      978-0-2288-4831-8 (Hardcover)

      978-0-2288-4830-1 (Paperback)

      978-0-2288-4832-5 (eBook)

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Prologue

      My Beginnings

      Life Skills

      Money

      Safety on the Road

      Safety and Health

      A Very Helpful Hint

      A Required Course

      Critical Thinking

      Relationships

      Music and The Golden Years

      Our Proud Tale

      Self-Esteem

      Please Let Me Boast

      Our Best Teachers

      Tutoring

      Mentoring

      The Rewards of Altruism

      Motivational Strategies

      Taking Risks

      A Success Story

      The Power of Role Models

      Empowering Students for Life

      Classroom Management Strategies

      Parent Involvement

      Dealing with Colleagues and Struggling Students

      One Semester Was Enough

      I’m Low Tech

      Academic Success

      Lessons for Math Empowerment

      Place Value

      Make a Simpler Problem (Empowering)

      The Metric System

      Pattern Blocks

      Making Connections with Money

      Understanding Quantities

      Scrabble Math

      Math Tricks

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to thank the following people for their assistance with this book:

      My wife, Linda, for her guidance in every step from start to finish.

      My daughter, Audra, and my son, Vincent, for not only encouraging me to undertake this project but also providing some of the content.

      Alfreida Degroot for typing the entire manuscript and for her kind support.

      Introduction

      My purpose in writing this book is to pass along the scores of strategies and techniques that I have found successful in my fifty plus years working with students, parents, teachers and school administrators.

      During my career and beyond, I have served as a teacher, principal, administrator, mathematics consultant and mentor to young boys. My revelations will go beyond mathematics instruction to how I was often able to empower my clients with many other valuable life skills. My experiences have allowed me to become more and more aware that the scope of our teaching is quite deficient. When I see so many of our citizens, young and old, making bad choices regarding their health, safety and financial independence, choices that negatively impact them for years going forward, I’m convinced we could, and should, be doing so much more. That includes education that goes beyond traditional academic expectations but could be every bit as important.

      Though I will reveal a sampling of the mathematical lessons I’m proud to share, I intend for this book to be filled, chapter by chapter, with the stories I hope will help the reader use what I have learned and developed to create a brighter future for all.

      Prologue

      You see things and you say, why? But I dream things that never were, and I say, why not?

      —George Bernard Shaw

      For the past fifty plus years, my wife Linda and I have been blessed with the opportunity to be involved in the education of young students. Over these years, we have watched young people grow and develop into successful adults. But at the same time, we have also witnessed scores fall far short of their potential to become productive citizens. It pains us to see young athletes, for example, who can do wonders with their powers on the court or on the field, only to go rapidly downhill when the cheering stops.

      Sadly, despite the hard work of thousands of very dedicated teachers, we are still selling our children short by not instilling critical life skills and the strategies and motivation needed for success beyond graduation. John, a personable young Black student, had a full two-year athletic scholarship to a small liberal arts junior college in the Midwest. However, he wasn’t prepared for a lifestyle much different from the comfort of the hood and lasted but two short weeks in college. Back in the inner city, he saw some of his high school friends driving nice cars and buying nice clothes with their income from dealing drugs. Needless to say, it was not long before John was selling drugs, too. This venture ended tragically with his arrest. John spent the next nine years in the penitentiary.

      As far back as I can remember, the dropout phenomenon has been a problem that has never been successfully addressed. When these individuals, many from poor families, transition through our school systems, they are sooner or later faced with the realization of how ill-prepared they are for the demands of high school or the opportunities that lie beyond. After all, which of us would like to go to work each day only to be reminded of our failures? Therefore, these young students are tempted to find fulfillment in negative endeavors.

      Be assured, on most any day, there exist several frustrated and angry young men walking the streets of our cities with the potential to make decisions that will lead to disaster for them and their victims.

      There is so much more we could be doing to empower tomorrow’s citizens with appropriate life skills. In the chapters that follow, I will focus on how positivity and proactivity worked for me and the many teachers, parents and school personnel I had the pleasure of working with. I will address the topics of safety, math, family relationships, values, money matters, tutoring, mentoring, grading and classroom management, with an emphasis on my love of teaching math. I will include a sampling of the lessons I developed that I found very effective. And I hope to pass along many good examples and stories that I hope will touch the hearts and souls of my readers.

      The best argument in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that will do that is a good story.

      —Richard Powers, novelist

      My Beginnings

      Good Friday, April 3, 1942, was a good Friday for me because it was the day of my birth. My earliest

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