The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The daily meanderings of a teacher

  • Caring is a very precious commodity in teaching

    Bird Droppings January 9, 2011 Caring is a very precious commodity in teaching As I am pondering my last hours before the holiday is over. The air temperature is nineteen outside and we are under a winter storm watch tonight through Tuesday morning. The anticipation of several inches of snow and up to a half…

  • Mountians offer a more clear view

    Bird Droppings January 6-7, 2011 Mountains offer a more clear view “I have a pretty fair education, but I would hate to be turned loose in these mountains right now and be told to put food in my belly, clothing on my body, shelter over my head, and provide protection from my enemies, both two…

  • Being a wise guy

    Bird Droppings January 5, 2011 Being a wise guy “Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I found this…

  • Leaving behind and moving forward

    Bird Droppings January 4, 2011 Leaving behind moving forward “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 I look around my room and wonder what would…

  • Building sandcastles drip by drip

    Bird Droppings January 3, 2011 Building Sand castles drip by drip Back when I was going to Graduate School nearly every day and before switching to Internet classes and webct it took some getting used to going to school and then going to school. I was teaching from 7:20 – 3:00 students who have had…

  • A surgeon general, holy man, medicine man and a psychologist

    Bird Droppings January 2, 2011 A Surgeon General, Holy Man, Medicine Man and Psychologist “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” Dr. C. Everett Koop 1916 – Author, Teacher, former Surgeon General of the United States, and former head of Pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital in…

  • Risk

    Bird Droppings December 31, 2010 Risk How more appropriate to end the year than to look at the idea of risk and what lies ahead. Risk is a driving force of who we are and why we are and what we do. How we take chances and avoid risk are defining pieces of our personality.…

  • Sitting and wondering pondering laundering

    Bird Droppings December 30, 2010 Sitting and wondering pondering laundering So often we take our technology for granted. It has been about five years since our last washing machine decided to die on us. In thirty two years we have had only three washing machines you might say they become a part of the family.…

  • Example

    Bird Droppings December 28, 2010 Example “We taught our children by both example and instruction, but with an emphasis on example, because all learning is a dead language to one who gets it second hand.” Kent Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans I have over the years looked to the wisdom contained in Nerburn’s…

  • Naughty or nice

    Bird Droppings December 28, 2010 Naughty or Nice “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth One day when you look back and try and remember what was that act or when, you may not remember but the person to whom that small act…