The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Teaching can make a difference each day

    Bird Droppings March 8, 2017 Teaching can make a difference each day   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing.…

  • Potential is only that unless it is acted upon

    Bird Droppings March 7, 2017 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly…

  • Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?

    Bird Droppings March 6, 2017 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?   This is perhaps a loaded question in lieu of today’s educational climate. Watching the news and the major effort under way to dismantle public schools through vouchers, “school choice” and other means we need to look at what we want…

  • Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves

    Bird Droppings March 3, 2017 Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves   I have heard and seen this in many forms. “’One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a debate that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It…

  • Puzzle’s always are missing a piece

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2017 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece   “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!” Gail Sheehy, American journalist, author   It has been a most…

  • I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2017 I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.   “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl…

  • Life, a journey only made difficult if there is no learning invloved

    Bird Droppings February 28, 2017 Life, a journey only made difficult if there is no learning invloved   “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” Henry Van Dyke   I was visiting with my mother yesterday and I walked by my fathers…

  • Wandering about while I am waiting

    Bird Droppings February 24, 2017 Wandering about while I am waiting   Sitting listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash acoustic while I write today. I have been saving my pennies to get a new lens hopefully to be ready for spring. There are so many possibilities with various flowers blooming all about and baby ducks…

  • An owl calling

    Bird Droppings February 22, 2017 An owl calling   Last night I woke for a few minutes as it turns out I forgot to turn on the ceiling fan. While up I stuck my nose out the door perhaps intuition who knows when wandering about the house half asleep. Deep in the pines an owl…

  • It is about random acts of kindness

    Bird Droppings February 21, 2017 It is about random acts of kindness   I was a bit later than I planned to get started this morning. I have a long day of writing for school and personally today. I got up this morning and my son’s faithful dog decided I did not need sleep late.…