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Lowe's Grove Middle School
Hometown:
Greensboro, NC
Class Information:
Room Number: 401
Students per Class: 700
Class Description:
I teach 6th Grade Career Explorations and 7th and 8th Grade Exploring Technology.
Position:
Technology
Needs:
I'm also Technology Coordinator for the School so I support all of our teachers with their Technology Needs.
Personal Information:
About Me:
My name is Michael Maxson and for the past 7 years I’ve been a Middle School Technology and Careers Teacher at Lowe’s Grove Middle School here in Durham, North Carolina. In addition to my teaching duties I’m also Co-Technology Coordinator and Chairman of the School’s Site Based Decision Making Committee.
College and Degrees:
I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Radio\Television Communications from Western Carolina University. I’m currently working on my Masters in Education, Technology Curriculum and Instruction, from Grand Canyon University which I hope to complete in 2008.
Activities:
What I enjoy most is Traveling and hanging out with my wife and three daughters..
Favorite Books:
The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn UnconditionalParenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong Do You Know Enough About Me to Teach Me? by Stephen G. Peters Inspiredto Learn: Why We Must Give Children Hope by Stephen G. Peters Batman:The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) by Shelby Foote The Layman's Parallel Bible: KJV, NIV, Living Bible, NRSV by Zondervan Publishing House
Favorite Quotes:
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave." --Lord Brougham "Moderncynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing." John F. Kennedy "This hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here you can build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, is each other." Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Interests:
There's not much you can find that wouldn't hold some interest for me... for me the world is a very interesting place...
Employment History:
Prior to coming to Lowe’s Grove I spent 12 years doing Technical Information Technology (Computers and Networks) Training in personal computer Hardware and Software; mostly Microsoft Certified Training. I also did IT consulting, setup, and management.
Why Do I Teach?:
To make a difference...