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Experience is the best teacher
Bird Droppings August 14, 2010 Experience is the greatest teacher “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a fiction…
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School is near can I make a difference?
Bird Droppings August 13, 2010 School is near can I make a difference? “There is wisdom to be found in examining differences such as between ‘morality’ and ‘moralizing.’ Nouns are treated as completed statues lined up on the top shelves of a person’s character. Verbs are active, no less demanding but requiring constant engagement. They…
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Did you know trees can talk?
Bird Droppings August 11, 2010-08-11 Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in…
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Thinking of others
Bird Droppings August 10, 2010 Thinking of Others “I think that empathy is important not only as a means of enhancing compassion, but I think that generally speaking when dealing with others on any level, if you are having difficulties, its extremely helpful to be able and try and put yourself in the other persons…
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Ognorance versus the journey
Bird Droppings August 9, 2010 Ignorance versus the journey “If I want to justify my existence, and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity — well, teaching ought to quell that obsession — and if I can ever get around to an intelligent view of matters, intelligent…
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Translating and communicating
Bird droppings August 6, 2010 Translating and communicating In about ten days I will have students in my class room again. I will be walking down hall ways and talking with students and teachers and I wonder will anything be different than when I left. I wonder if teachers have studied how to be more…
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A bit of editorializing – Sorry
Bird Droppings August 5, 2010 A bit of editorializing – Sorry I was reading in the National Educators news letter several key articles both of which dealt with assessment. I have for many years tried to reflect on my own progression in terms of assessment. During the past eight years while studying under and with…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 