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A final look at essential Bird Pedagogy for the moment
Bird Droppings August 26, 2011 A final look at essential Bird Pedagogy for the moment “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 days I have been looking at how I see teaching and instruction…
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Essential Education
Bird Droppings August 25, 2011 Essential Education Last night I was helping my son in his education studies going through various philosophies of education one happened to be essential education which is only a slight step from perennial education which is reading writing and arithmetic period no art or muisic what so ever. As I…
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A continued look at Learning
Bird Droppings August 24, 2011 A continued look at learning “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 the same reason. Another reason is…
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Essential Bird Pedagogy again
Bird Droppings August 23, 2011 Essential Bird Pedagogy again I am working on some thoughts on raising the bar for students as we tend to do in education. I find it most intriguing that we raise the bar for students mention raising the bar for teachers based on student’s success and all hell breaks loose.…
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A bit wordy but good
Bird Droppings August 22, 2011 A PS to my daily writings first: PS. I received this note earlier today in an email and thought I would pass it on. The note is written by Dorrie DePedro from Coatesville Pennsylvania who along with husband Greg own Coatesville Flower Shop. My father was a regular and Greg’s…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 