The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Great Mystery

  • Can we teach a love of learning?

    Bird Droppings March 20, 2014 Can we teach a love of learning? I bumped into this young lady at the grocery store a few days ago and it had been some time since our last run in. She was one of my secret seniors nearly six years ago. It has been almost some time since…

  • Teachers should we question our questions?

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2014 Teachers should we question our questions? Yesterday as I was sitting in my class room for the first time in many days after finding in my files an article from a few years back about the innuendos about who and why Georgia students in middles schools across the state did…

  • It is in pondering the questions that understanding comes through

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2014 It is in pondering the questions that understanding comes through It has been interesting this spring, weather wise. I have been battling allergies and sinus issues daily between cold and hot and rain and then not enough rain and the pollen. When I headed to school today I had been…

  • Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets?

    Bird Droppings March 17, 2014 Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets? Morning is a special time for me always a new beginning. That might be far too easy of a way to say what I am trying to say. Today I went out a bit early from the house to take out…

  • The ability of surmounting learning difficulties

    Bird Droppings October 2, 2013 The ability of surmounting learning difficulties “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome An…

  • Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings October 1, 2013 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage…

  • Finding a way to forgive

    Bird Droppings September 16, 2013 Finding a way to forgive “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi I spent the morning on a field tip of sorts for a graduate school class. We visited the MLK Jr. Memorial Center on Auburn Street in Atlanta. 1968 seems so far…

  • So much difference in the perceptions of mankind

    Bird Droppings September 13, 2013 So much difference in the perceptions of mankind Friday the thirteenth for some a day of foreboding and others it is simply another sunrise and sunset. European culture brought the foreboding element of this day to the Americas. Some argue it has metaphysical properties and is not just the day…

  • Checking the toes for mittens

    Bird Droppings September 12, 2013 Checking the toes for mittens It has been some time since one of my granddaughters was showing off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight clad in a t-shirt, diaper, mittens and ski cap that looked like a penguin she was showing off for us. Finally she…

  • Ponderingerest is that even a word?

    Bird Droppings September 11, 2013 Ponderingerest is that even a word? Today is an interesting and yet solemn day; a day marked by memories, twelve years ago I started teaching again after a twenty three year layoff, eight years ago today I started as a part – time Instructor for Piedmont College. Twenty five years…