Bird Droppings June 19, 2013 Translating and communicating are critical elements in teaching “Scientific management is always on guard against people who don’t fit securely into boxes, whether because of too much competency, too much creativity, too much popularity or what have you. Although often hired, it is with the understanding they must be kept…

Bird Droppings June 18, 2013 Empathy; do we all have it? It is has just gotten light on this side of the mountain outside Clayton Georgia as I sit here pondering do I go down and get breakfast or finish this dropping. It has been wet here in the temperate deciduous rainforest of North Georgia…

Bird Droppings June 17, 2013 Pondering and researching education while listening to a waterfalls I came up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for education and learning as I have for nearly ten tears attending Foxfire training programs. I started writing before day break listening to nature’s…

Bird Droppings June 16, 2013 Should we be trying to fill a liter bottle? The current educational trends are analogous to trying to pour five gallons of material into a liter bottle using a funnel. As you try obliviously a large portion of material spills out and is discarded or lost. I use a liter…

Bird Droppings June 14, 2013 Is not every day a new journey begun? “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.” Ivan…

Bird Droppings June 13, 2013 Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, pondering and reflecting all in a few minutes? I drove to south east Georgia for a trip over four years ago to take my oral exams for my doctorate. This was basically a follow-up face to face with my committee of professors and in…

Bird Droppings June 12, 2013 Should not a teacher be allowed a recharge? Keeping the energy flowing is crucial I attend and offer my two cents at two and sometimes three Foxfire Approach to Teaching Courses a year put on by Piedmont College for graduate students and teachers already in the classroom in Mountain City…

Bird Droppings June 11, 2013 Are we experiencing genocide of learning? In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic I am trying to get readmitted to the doctorate program, running back and forth to North Georgia to sit in on Foxfire Teacher Classes, reading and discussing John Dewey, maintain some semblance…

Bird Droppings June 10, 2013 Should we sharpen the machete or bring a shovel? I have been reflecting over the concept of critical pedagogy and in that reflection I recall an incident nearly forty years ago that calls to mind my own interpretation and understanding of what we as teachers are all about. I purchased…

Bird Droppings June 9, 2013 An evolving pedagogy as I learn, see and listen more “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…