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A journal from a teacher

Should our children be going to school?

Bird Droppings February 5, 2018 Should our children be going to school? I drove to my son’s house to watch and get y grandchildren ready for school and then take them to school. My granddaughter was up early and we talked and she played for a bit on an art app I have on…

February 5, 2018
Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends

Bird Droppings February 4, 2018 Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends A year ago I was fishing with my grandson at the Atlanta Children’s Museum, when my wife, who I could see with our granddaughter a hundred feet away playing in the moon sand called me. I looked over as…

February 4, 2018
Life is a puzzle falling into place and the inter-connectivity of all that is presents the final image

Bird Droppings February 3, 2018 Life is a puzzle falling into place and the inter-connectivity of all that is presents the final image It was a Monday a few years back when my co-teaching partner shared a card with me from one of our students. On the first day of the semester we handed out…

February 3, 2018
Writing for some, seems so difficult in a digital world

Bird Droppings February 2, 2017 Writing for some, seems so difficult in a digital world “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was…

February 2, 2018
Solitude is within ones soul and heart

Bird Droppings February 1, 2018 Solitude is within ones soul and heart “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear filled eyes, one affirmation endures..one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where…

February 1, 2018
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…

January 31, 2018
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…

January 30, 2018
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…

January 29, 2018
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…

January 28, 2018
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…

January 27, 2018

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