The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 11, 2019 How difficult is it finding ourselves within the fog of education?   “The more sand that has escaped the hourglass of life, the clearer we should see through it.” Jean Paul Sartre   As I was looking for thoughts and ideas to start, I actually was going a different direction…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2019 Can we find truth in an untruthful world?   I went back to a book again for the third or fourth time, a book titled; every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women, by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2019 Pondering and thinking about the lyrics from an old friend   By chance I stood in line behind a young man mid-thirties and I assume his wife at a BBQ place at Stone Mountain Park. I know we can argue it is a memorial to the south carved on a…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2019 Making 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. As I…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2019 Should teaching be a habit, a routine or neither?   “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed…

Bird Droppings April 3, 2019 I detest shopping but I really like Kroger   About three years back I spent nearly a week of using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until getting the fan fixed. It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2019 Watching a hawk fly by   I have over the years attended numerous track meets. I would take a few photos as I tend to do. I recall about eight years ago when I was not able to get to the region meet till after school. Since it started before…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2019 My pedagogy is evolving as I learn, see and listen more   “We would do away with examinations. They measure the inconsequential type of learning. We would do away with grades and credits for the same reason. We would do away with degrees as a measure of competence partly for…

Bird Droppings March 30, 2019 Is it passion or just obsession?   “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games…

Bird Droppings March 24, 2019 Children Teach what they Live   It is a beautiful spring day outside and quiet after a crazy open house next door. It seems the solitude of the country has changed rapidly in only a few weeks. A developer bought sub-division and has put up houses. People are moving into…