The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Being an example is such a simple lesson plan

    Bird Droppings January 31, 2018 Being an example is such a simple lesson plan Early this morning a video was posted on several educators’ social media pages. It was of a seven year old child who had been violent in the class room. It was a general education class room and the child had a…

  • LIFE

    Bird Droppings January 30, 2018 LIFE Morning is a special time a beginning. Several aspects make it special first one of taking the dog out and talking with them as he sniffs and does his thing in the yard. Then I go to my writing and reading which has become my meditation for the day…

  • Learning is a journey strewn with boulders

    Bird Droppings January 29, 2018 Learning is a journey strewn with boulders   “In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point…

  • The fragility of life

    Bird Droppings January 28, 2018 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened a bit early with the pouring down of rain. I also getting old and needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I the rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the…

  • Our goal in teaching is for students to create new questions

    Bird Droppings January 27, 2018 Our goal in teaching is for students to create new questions   Over the past month I have been pondering New Year’s resolutions and advice for next year posting, emailing and even a billboard or two driving home from Mount Yonah on a quick trip with my son. With all…

  • A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou

    Bird Droppings January 26, 2018 A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou   For several weeks now we have been balancing between warm and cold weather in the early mornings which still is too cold for the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature a bit…

  • Should we be examining the threads of life?

    Bird Droppings January 25, 2018 Should we be examining the threads of life?   “Man did not weave the web of life he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle, 1854   It has been a few years since I read a National Geographic…

  • Reconciliation of trust

    Bird Droppings January 24, 2018 Reconciliation of trust   “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation   Sort of difficult beginning a dropping with a…

  • All in words we find

    Bird Droppings January 23, 2018 All in words we find   “The farmer channels water to his land. The fletcher whittles his arrows. And the carpenter turns his wood. So the wise direct their mind.” Dhammapada   Many years ago there was a folk song entitled, If I were a carpenter. As I read this…

  • Sitting thinking of a circle

    Bird Droppings January 22, 2018 Sitting thinking of a circle   I missed the last rerun of a favorite miniseries, Into the West, and one of these days will find the DVD set or Netflix will add it.  The movie starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west…