The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Foxfire

  • I could sit and listen to a stream all day

    Bird Droppings June 6, 2011 I could sit and listen to a stream all day About an hour ago I woke up and took our Westie out and in the darkness of an early morning had to start thinking about why there were Westie’s anyhow. Granted my main reason was since this dog had kept…

  • Driving up a mountain

    Bird Droppings June 5, 2011 Driving up a mountain I was looking forward to the trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire property and teachers class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son was taking the course as a piece of his master’s degree program at Piedmont…

  • Education without learning is like a barn without walls

    Bird Droppings June 1, 2011 Education without learning is like a barn without walls. “A truly educational community that embodies both rigor and involvement will elude us until we establish a plumb line that measures teachers and students alike as great things can do.” Parker Palmer It has been many years since we as a…

  • Pondering so many things on the last day of Spring Break

    Bird Droppings April 9, 2011 Pondering so many things on the last day of Spring Break Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my graduate school online class site. We had a reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in…

  • Reflection is a needed piece in our puzzle of humanity

    Bird Droppings January 10-12, 2011 Reflection is a needed piece in our puzzle of humanity “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Ronald Reagan Much of the news…

  • Should Children be left behind

    Bird Droppings October 4, 2010 Should children be left behind? “I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood, when blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud. I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form. ‘Come in’ she said ‘I’ll give you shelter from the storm’.” Bob…

  • Essential Bird Pedagogy Part 3

    Bird Droppings August 26, 2010 Essential Bird Pedagogy Part 3 Essential Education Pedagogy The pedagogy developed by Tara Redwood School and Essential Education includes the following: • Knowledge of the inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions is as important as knowledge of the outer world • An integrated and interdisciplinary approach to learning is…

  • Essential Bird Pedagogy Part 2

    Bird Droppings August 25, 2010 Essential Bird Pedagogy Part 2 ‎ “We would do away with examinations. They measure the inconsequential type of learning. We would do away with grades and credits for the same reason. We would do away with degrees as a measure of competence partly for the same reason. Another reason is…

  • Essential Bird Pedagogy

    Bird Droppings August 23-24, 2010 Essential Bird Pedagogy Part 1 “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Dr. Carl Rogers, considered the father of humanistic psychology Carl Rogers in 1969 published a book, Freedom to Learn. You would think that in a country with mandatory…

  • 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…