The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Teaching

  • Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration.

    Bird Droppings September 30, 2024 Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration. Every once in a while, I throw on Hot Tuna, an acoustic blues duo made up of former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy. I highly recommend it when you get a moment to listen to them. A…

  • Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often?

    Bird Droppings September 29, 2024 Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often? I stopped playing the lottery unless Powerball is over 100 million. I will admit that I am pondering retiring with a Powerball jackpot of nearly three hundred million dollars. I might need to play my numbers. I would fund educational programs…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need

    Bird Droppings November 14, 2018 Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need   I have not been away from my computer for some time finally emailing a ninety nine percent complete pre-prospectus to my committee chair. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ended my procrastination. I am not complaining but I enjoy the…

  • Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2018 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory   The anniversary of a day that will be a scar on our nation’s history has past. On September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, it was on a Sunday. People…

  • Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings September 20, 2018 Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?   Yesterday afternoon 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…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2018 Should children be left behind?               “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in         respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It     is chosen and foreordained, and he only…

  • Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?

    Bird Droppings August 2, 2018 Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?   “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein   Andrea Teader does Podcasts, I happened upon one while sitting in my doctor’s office looking up storytelling on the internet. She started her Podcast, The…

  • Why is it hard to think about compassion?

    Bird Dropping August 1, 2018 Why is it hard to think about compassion?   Almost six years ago I was quietly sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina it was still dark outside and it was odd not being at school. I so seldom missed a day of school. My middle son and his…

  • Doing is the best teacher

    Bird Droppings July 18, 2018 Doing is the best teacher   It has been an interesting week already. Monday I had two of our grandkids over and we swam and played all day. Yesterday sat down and talked with my mother looking at old photos and just remembering. Today is work on paper day and…

  • In a world of data can we still use intuition?

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2018 In a world of data can we still use intuition?   I mentioned to a fellow teacher I can tell when a child has emotional issues most of the time after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted observations are part of most evaluations but I was referring to an…