The daily meanderings of a teacher

    Bird Droppings August 27, 2012 How do you spell Essential Bird Pedagogy?   “If a university can’t have two out of five of their student-athletes graduate, I don’t know why they’re rewarded with post-season play” Arne Duncan               Over the past few years I have been looking at how I see teaching…

Bird Droppings August 26, 2012 Where can I find the ends of a bell shaped curve?   I have had several statistics and testing courses during my undergraduate and graduate school experiences and I recall about on page 3 or so “the bell shaped curve” was mentioned. I always find it amazing how in education…

Bird Droppings August 24, 2012 Are not compassion and passion spelled similar? When does the FIDO principle not seem appropriate? Frequency, Intensity, Duration and Over Again is the basis for how to teach a topic in many management courses. Perhaps in a debate when asked a question and you answer with the same politic rhetoric…

Bird Droppings August 23, 2012 Can we teach an unteachable child?   “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy…

Bird Droppings August 22, 2012 I wonder what is really my favorite store?   Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out.  One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife the other morning from a radio announcer recalling an old Bush quote, and…

Bird Droppings August 21, 2012 Can we make a beginning from an end?   “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein  …

Bird Droppings August 20, 2012 Why should we listen more closely?               I was out in the back yard walking the dog, weeding and watering my herb garden when a commotion caught my attention last evening. Three crows were chasing a red tailed hawk. One on one the hawk would be able to dispatch…

Bird Droppings August 19, 2012 Why does it take courage to teach?               It has been several years’ back a tradition was started in my home town of Coatesville Pennsylvania. I recall an email about an that event, one of the members of our high school graduating class lost his daughter to cancer a…

Bird Droppings August 18, 2012 I was wondering about pondering today?   My daughter in-law has lost two loved ones in the past few weeks and while I did not really know either of her relatives that well, it impacts me with her marriage to our son and with her daughter our granddaughter. I was…

Bird Droppings August 17, 2012 I am always seeking something?   Each day as I sit down I wonder what will transpire as I begin to think about what I will write about today. There is a seeking, a yearning to find and to answer questions of my own and others. On an occasion, sometimes,…