The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Native American

  • Can we really find answers?

    Bird Droppings March 27, 2014 Can we really find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to almost any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one…

  • A morning meandering while the moon is glowing

    Bird Droppings March 26, 2014 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Last night after tutoring after school with a student who needs constant repetition of material to remember I read through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations in the coming weeks. In another…

  • Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?

    Bird Droppings March 25, 2014 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? In a ninth grade literature class that I happened to co-teach in, I was introduced to the book Freedom Writers Diary and the film based on the book. In some ways the story is similar to the story of Foxfire. Erin…

  • The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert

    Bird Droppings March 24, 2014 The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty five years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1972 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to…

  • The beginning or end in a circle is where?

    Bird Droppings March 21, 2014 The beginning or end in a circle is where? “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 Over…

  • 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…

  • Learning is a journey strewn with boulders

    Bird Droppings January 13, 2014 Learning is a journey strewn with boulders “In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we…