The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Education

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Small is many times BIG

    Bird Droppings August 4, 2010 Small is many times BIG “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder It seems like yesterday that I was looking at some power point slides as we waited between committee meetings at Piedmont…

  • Rising to the possible or to get the banana

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2010 Rising to the possible or to get the banana “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints possibility never. And what wine…

  • Listening to a child

    Bird Droppings August 2, 2010 Listening to a child It has been some time since I was sitting in my class room when a friend came by with her baby brother about six weeks old at the time. There is something about newborns that is so special as she left another group of folks came…

  • Finding the gem

    Bird Droppings August 1, 2010 Finding the gem? With a little over a week of summer vacation left before reporting for teachers preplanning many differing ideas have been bouncing around my head. I am punishing myself for so little effort in my own writing and reading. While I consumed numerous books and papers and wrote…

  • Just another Saturday

    Bird Droppings July 31, 2010 Just another Saturday I woke up like most other days and for some reason sat at my computer pondering much longer than normal. I was looking at some comments and reviewing a post I had made the day before and thinking about what direction to go. I started reading Ayers…

  • Maybe we are in the wrong

    Bird Droppings July 30, 2010 Maybe we are in the wrong “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember al the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who have no right to talk. Too many misinterpretations have…

  • Doing what you love is not really work

    Bird Droppings July 29, 2010 Doing what you love is not really work “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham It seems I learn something every day as I wander about the internet and books I find along the way. My life’s journey the…

  • Can we determine worth at face value?

    Bird Droppings July 28, 2010 Can we determine worth at face value? I try not to miss too many days writing although my timing has been off sort of whenever I get a chance to sit down and write kind of thing. I am going to be working at school all day and then run…