2. Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

This collection includes 105 color cartoon images from Flying by the Seat of Your Pants.

Showing 51 - 60 of 106 Records

Pumped Up

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a woman lifting weights on a barbell. The tag line reads "Mrs. Hart gets pumped up about teaching a full range of students, because even though it's hard work, the results really show."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Placement Matters

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a car driving away with a bird nest on the tire and the bird flapping her wings and trying to fly away. The tag line reads "Examples from nature remind us that placement really does matter." A note on the left says, "Inspired by a robin in my yard."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Fear of Formulas

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a man watching TV. The man on the TV is saying "A new national study revealed that a majority of the nation's special education teachers choose their college major to avoid taking advanced math classes." The man watching the TV's thought bubble says "And all this time I thought I was the only one." The tag line reads "Having never advanced past math 101 (math in everyday life), Fred is comforted by the realization that he was not alone in his fear of formulas."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Three Bears

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a Mama bear, a Papa bear, and a Baby bear sitting on Papa bear's lap. Mama bear is sitting on a stump knitting listening to Papa bear who is sitting in a chair reading to Baby bear. Papa bear reads out loud "When Goldilocks went to school, they gave her support services. The first set was too small and it didn't fit...the next set was too big and didn't fit...the next set was just right and it fit!" The tag line reads, "Support services that are 'only as special as necessary' fit just right!"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Family-Centered Approaches

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a group of educators sitting in chairs in a circle with a man and a woman sitting in the center of the circle back to back. The woman says to the man, "This isn't exactly what I had in mind." The man says "Me either." The tag line reads "Family - Centered approaches gone bad."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Option Paralysis

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a principal of a school standing on the left side of the panel in an office with a woman in the lower right corner of the panel. There is a table and chairs and papers on the table. The principal holds a very long list and says "In planning your daughter's IEP, we'd like you to chose from this comprehensive list of 13,941 learning outcomes." The woman looks at the principal. She is overwhelmed and has with huge confused eyes. The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Mrs. Baker Experiences 'Option Paralysis'."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Multiple Personalities

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows two panels stacked vertically. The top panel shows a man sitting in a chair across from a psychotherapist holding a clipboard. The psychotherapist says "When you count to 3, you vil vake up and remember nothing from hypnosis..1..2..3." In the lower panel it shows the man wake up and he says, "What happened?" The psychotherapist says, "Ed, you have at least 5 personalities, Early Ed, Special Ed, Vocational Ed, Bilingual Ed, and Regular Ed. Resulting in internal conflict." the tag line reads "Ed is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Fashionable Footwear

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a woman looking in the mirror wearing a pair of waders. The tag line reads "Mrs. Foster finds fashionable, functional footwear to attend her daughter's due process hearing."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Remodeling

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows six men all doing different tasks trying to remodel a bathroom and all of them are getting in each others way and making a mess of things. The tag line reads, "If we remodeled bathrooms the way we delivered support services using a specialist-reliant model..."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Whole Language

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows Mr. Moody sitting at a desk with papers and a phone on it. He is on the phone and says, "You're darn right I'm in favor of a whole language! Those partial language approaches are completely inadequate." The tag line reads "Mr. Moody left the district in-service on teaching reading before they discussed the importance of combining literature and phonics."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants