The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 15, 2020Walking along the way in my own journey I walked nearly twice as far today as I did yesterday. I am trying to build up my endurance. As I think back over who I am as a teacher and as a person I often wonder as to how I came to…

Bird Droppings October 13, 2020 Hearing an owl “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.” W.…

Bird Droppings October 12, 2020What about adding to our current reality TV: The great teachers of America? I am back in grad school and today working on writing. A time ago I had been set up to teach several new college classes when I received notification of a reduction in force just before I started on…

Bird Droppings October 9, 2020  We are so missing out on teaching creativity It was another quiet morning as I wandered out, although a bit too chilly for crickets and frogs. Yesterday afternoon as it warmed up, however, several tree frogs visited around the house. The air was still, not a breeze as I sat…

Bird Droppings October 8, 2020 Are great teachers intuitive? IESP I have mentioned in my writing that I can tell when a child has emotional issues most of the time, after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted, observations are part of most evaluations, but I was referring to an intuitive observation aspect. Something we…

Bird Droppings October 7, 2020 How do you feed the wolves? I walked outside very early this morning to a sky filled with clouds leaving and a brisk wind. Crickets were almost silent, chirping slowly in the unusually cool weather. My morning started long before sunrise today, and the sounds as I went on our…

Bird Droppings October 6, 2020 An epiphany of sorts on a chilly October morning   I spent the better part of yesterday avoiding any direction, so intent on the moment I was missing cues to the past and future. It was last year that our neighborhood changed. On top of everything, I was severely injured, so…

Bird Droppings October 2, 2020 Teach to where the learning will be, not to where it is I got a text from my middle son that a package was coming from my granddaughter and fragile. My box arrived today, and I thought I should open while videotaping. I carefully opened as per instructions from my…

Bird Droppings October 1, 2020 Why are we deliberately wrong? I stopped playing the lottery nearly three years ago. However, I will admit that I was pondering retiring on a previous Saturday night with a Powerball jackpot of only about one hundred fifty million dollars if I bought a ticket and won. I think I…

Bird Droppings September 30, 2020 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind? I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s Little Strong Arm…