The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 21, 2021Wondering why on a Thursday morning I watched the debate roughly a year ago from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend. It was to give her a break from a hectic clinic schedule and me from the solitude of being retired. We went…

Bird Droppings October 20, 2021Trying to find where community exists In my doctoral course work, I was in a class on educational communities that featured all total in the two courses’ fifteen texts. The texts have an underlying theme of caring and relationships as a key to education or successful teaching. One of the books…

Bird Droppings October 19, 2021An eclectic morning I walked out into a clear sky, and stars gleamed above me. The full moon had settled behind the pine trees to the west. My feet got cold, walking about in flip flops. I walked my wife to her car and decided to lay back down for a…

Bird Droppings October 18, 2021 What is that piece you cannot teach teachers? “Studies suggest that instructional and management processes are key to effectiveness, but many interview and survey responses about effective teaching emphasize the teacher’s affective characteristics, or social and emotional behaviors, more than pedagogical practice.” James H. Stronge, Qualities of Effective Teachers I…

Bird Droppings October 15, 2021 Within the circle of life, a new life coming I will be wanding many miles over the next few days since my wife, and I will be taking a trip to the North Georgia Mountains. We will be stopping at several farmer’s markets. We will be looking for a few…

Bird Droppings October 14, 2021Words not spoken are some of the most profound wisdom I have been sitting writing and working on my dissertation for six hours. Words are on my mind right now. I just commented on a Facebook post about learning languages and knowing enough in several languages to survive and order chicken…

Bird Droppings October 12, 2021Walking along the way in my journey I walked nearly twice as far today as I did yesterday. I am trying to build up my endurance. As I think back over who I am as a teacher and person, I often wonder how I came to be the way I am…

Bird Droppings October 13, 2021What about adding to our current reality TV: The great teachers of America? I am back in grad school and today working on writing. A time ago, I had been set up to teach several new college classes when I received notification of a reduction in force just before I started on…

Bird Droppings October 8, 2021 Are great teachers intuitive? IESP I have mentioned in my writing that I can tell when a child has emotional issues most of the time, after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted, our observations are part of most evaluations, but I referred to an intuitive observation aspect. Something we…

Bird Droppings October 7, 2021 How do you feed the wolves? I walked outside very early this morning to a sky filled with an overcast haziness. Crickets were almost silent, chirping slowly in the unusually warm weather. My morning started long before sunrise today, and the sounds as I went on our porch. Nearby a…