The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Can we teach a love of learning?

    Bird Droppings March 22, 2013 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…

  • In pondering the question understanding often comes through

    Bird Droppings March 21, 2013 In pondering the question understanding often 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 thinking about…

  • Should we question our questions?

    Bird Droppings March 20, 2013 Should we question our questions? Yesterday as I was sitting in my class room 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 so poorly on CRCT’s, Georgia’s version of school…

  • Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets?

    Bird Droppings March 19, 2013 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…

  • Sadly far too often children will become who we assume they are

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2013 Sadly far too often children will become who we assume they are “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” Stacia Tauscher So often I watch teachers treating students simply as things in the class room, items to be dealt with…

  • Sometimes we get to close to the edge

    Bird Droppings April 19, 2011 Sometimes we get to close to the edge I recall taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. Maybe they…