The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 18, 2010 High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection does it work? About two years back we spent several months getting ready for a peer review, actually it is called a GAPPS Review. About the same time you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests coming…

Bird Droppings July 17, 2010 How can I teach myself or can I? “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and more…

Bird Droppings July 16, 2010 Do children deserve more? I drove up to North Georgia with two of my son’s yesterday afternoon. I needed to meet with Dr. Hilton Smith about some material relating to my dissertation and to pick up a large quantity of rats and mice for my oldest sons hobby and part…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2010 I wonder if you can get moon burn Last night just before heading in we as a family sat on the back porch watching hummingbirds get in a few more sips of nectar from the feeders and listening to tree frogs begin their nightly chorus. As I stood outside I…

Bird Droppings July 14, 2010 Walking out among the Cotton Woods I walked outside earlier as I do so many mornings just to ponder the day ahead and by chance looked over to where our famous dog moose is buried. A mockingbird was sitting on the Grancy Grey beard tree by Moose’s grave singing away.…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2010 Pondering a bit more than usual today Yesterday’s storm knocked out our internet and it is still down hopefully alive and well in the morning tomorrow. I have talked to an old friend today my former principal discussing many issues of life, politics and education. I sat down with a…

Bird Droppings July 12, 2010 Two Standing Bears I was going through my library of books over the weekend looking for additional references for my dissertation and found this copy from 1972 of The Ponca Chiefs. The following quote is from a court room dialogue of the first time legally Native American were found to…

Bird Droppings July 11, 2010 Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2010 What is normal? “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which to aim, it is not what most people…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2010 What it is we are about? In the midst of doing my literature searches and reading articles, books, dissertations and numerous other forms of communication I came up on a text about motivation. As I tend to do while reading several other ideas popped up. I was thinking of the…