The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Education

  • Looking in a direction to start a morning

    Bird Droppings January 19, 2014 Looking in a direction to start a morning “Beginnings start in the east – from where the sun rises we begin a new dawn. Each day is a good new day with a fresh beginning, a new start. East is the direction of the physical body and newness including children…

  • Teasing

    Bird Droppings January 17, 2014 Teasing “Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, and is it true, does it improve on the silence?” Hindu proverb So often I speak first and clean up afterwards many times simply walking away quiet generally leaving whoever I am conversing with confused and bewildered. Having…

  • Trying to understand friendship

    Bird Droppings January 16, 2014 Trying to understand friendship Another cold day in Georgia and a near huge full moon last night and soon I get to head to school a bit early. Being out of synch from the past holiday an extra day for the weekend may not help. I generally start each morning…

  • Trying to find a way back to normal

    Bird Droppings January 15, 2014 Trying to find a way back to normal “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio. Gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down should have been done long ago. What if you knew her and…

  • We have to try and care

    Bird Droppings January 14, 2014 We have to try and care So far for this year and the tail end of last year all the snow, sleet and ice predicted have never showed up. It has been unseasonably colder than normal with scatterings of warm weather still only a few nights getting below freezing. I…

  • Learning is a journey strewn with boulders

    Bird Droppings January 13, 2014 Learning is a journey strewn with boulders “In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we…

  • Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods

    Bird Droppings January 12, 2014 Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods I walked outside earlier as I do many mornings listening observing trying to understand this reality I am walking about in. The sky was almost bright this morning with a very faint moon still hanging around and a few wisps of clouds were…

  • Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same?

    Bird Droppings January 10, 2014 Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same? Even though I am one of the worst spellers in this local area I know heroism and humility are technically spelled differently. I will concede to using words to come up with a perhaps catchy title for my daily…

  • Caring is a very precious commodity in life

    Bird Droppings January 9, 2014 Caring is a very precious commodity in life As I am pondering my early hours today before heading to the local Super Walmart all night everything store I read an article dealing with charter schools and how they exclude many students. The air temperature is chilly outside and we are…

  • Horses and Trains and learning

    Bird Droppings January 8, 2014 Horses and Trains and learning It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more than the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to go…