1 World Education
THINK LIKE A WRITER, and
THE COOPERATIVE CLASSROOM
Educator, Penelope Torribio
Hello, Thank you for visiting 1worldeducation.com
I am Penelope Torribio, known to many as Mrs. T.
Early in my teaching career, I began working with children and teens in danger to themselves or others.
On my first teaching day, in my first classroom, I realized that I could not teach my students subject matter without addressing how they thought and behaved.
Because my students were frequently behind in academics and social skills, I developed a motto:
“Never teach one thing when you can teach two or more.”
I call it high-density learning.
Below are several quotes by poet, and
learning advocate, Maya Angelou
“It is our shame and our loss when we discourage people from being creative. We set apart those people who should not be set apart, people who we assume don’t have a so-called artistic temperament, and that is stupid.”
“Too often, creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be a climate in which new ways of thinking, perceiving, and questioning, and I must add creative action, are encouraged.”
But how? How do we create this climate, this atmosphere of creativity? This is what 1 World Education is about. Developing creative thinking is the foundation of the tools and techniques presented in 1worldeducation.com. Penelope Torribio is an educator, teacher trainer, behavior transformation specialist, and author.
When she started teaching, she was not a creative thinker. She had never written anything outside her school assignments. She had never held or owned a guitar or sung outside her bathroom. She had never owned a puppet, and her teacher training did not provide her with a system for working with some of the most challenged students in the California school system.
Penelope Torribio, known by many as Mrs. T, developed her philosophy, her structures, tools, and techniques with the help of her students in the classroom. She has worked in preschool through high school; the structure basically remains the same.
Her became an award-winning educational author, a brain-based learning specialist and presenter, a teacher-trainer in behavior control and transformation, and teaching Think Like a Writer from the stage.
The site will have many examples. To keep the pages short, created several pages. Click on the titles below to move around this site.
Think Like a Writer and the Cooperative Classroom provide the foundation and philosophy for all the tools and techniques. Please visit the 1 World Store for educational material.
Think like a Writer
The Cooperative Classroom
The Education Journal
Directive Drawing
Education and the Magic of Puppetry
Educational Stories, Songs, Scripts, and Videos
Educational Musicals
Edu-Tainment Novel
About Penelope
1 World Education Store
1 World Education Podcasts
1 World Resource Page
Contact 1 World Education. Email Penelope Torribio
