The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: John Dewey

  • High stakes testing and/or inspection does it work?

    Bird Droppings November 12, 2011 High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection does it work? I was thinking back this morning to several months of getting ready for a peer review, GAPPS Review. If you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests all about the same time that was…

  • Gratitude is action as well as words

    Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Most mornings I am driving to school about four thirty or so in the morning but today with Veterans Day as a holiday I got to relax till maybe five or so. Today my wife had scheduled a medical procedure and we were…

  • Sometimes we can offer a sigh of relief

    Bird Droppings November 10, 2011 Sometimes we can offer a sigh of relief “It is about learning not about teaching.” Dr. Max Thompson A semester is nearing the end and my daily journey for this semester will end. But it is a relief in some ways. While I have really enjoyed the classes, students and…

  • Turning an ugly face jug

    Bird Droppings November 3, 2011 Turning an ugly face jug It has been a few years since the last time I talked with and watched the late Cleater Meadors turn a jug on the potter’s wheel at Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts fair in Perry Georgia. A simple lump of clay in a skilled artist’s…

  • What could be more sacred than life itself?

    Bird Droppings November 1, 2011 What could be more sacred than life itself? Perhaps having been born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital gives me a better insight into the sacred than most normal folk. Of course then I have to consider that soon after I was born the Church dropped All Saints…

  • Having a heart

    Bird Droppings October 26, 2011 Having a heart It is chilly out in northeast Georgia with evening temperatures still hanging in the high forties or low fifties but rumor of a near frost hanging out there has most of us gardeners bringing plants in. We have still a couple weeks till we are off from…

  • Who is responsible?

    Bird Droppings October 25, 2011 Who is responsible? Several weeks ago I was involved in a debate of sorts on the issue of public versus private education; it circled around and about really going not too far. Just a few days ago I picked up our local paper and a letter to the editor caught…

  • MWSLCB – Maybe we should leave children behind?

    Bird Droppings October 2, 2011 Maybe we should leave children 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’.”…

  • Direction

    Bird Droppings September 5, 2011 Direction Over the past long weekend I worked on several papers, sat in the recliner and dabbled in my yard but I got thinking back to a party in Pennsylvania that was held nearly two years ago as I pondered and walked about. Two years ago on a Saturday night…

  • Can we see new meaning in it

    Bird Droppings August 28, 2011 Can we see a new meaning in it “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein A little…