The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Teaching

  • Whose job is it to find the door?

    Bird Droppings January 13, 2012 Whose job is it to find the door?   I enjoy arriving at school while the stars are still shining overhead providing me with significant quiet time to ponder my day ahead and previous. I was thinking back a few years to when my son would ride to school with…

  • Passing along knowledge

    Bird Droppings January 12, 2012 Passing along Knowledge   It has been nearly nine years since my wife and I attended a turning and burning, near Gillsville, Georgia. It was a gathering of potter’s, getting together to sell their wares and turn a few pots and of course fire up the kiln. All of the…

  • Building sandcastles drip by drip

    Bird Droppings January 11, 2012 Building Sand castles drip by drip   Back when I was going to graduate school nearly every day and before switching to internet classes and WebCT it took some getting used to going to school and then going to school again. I was teaching from seven in the morning till…

  • Horses and Trains and Learning

    Bird Droppings January 10, 2012 Horses and Trains and learning   It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more than the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to…

  • Reaching out

    Bird Droppings January 9, 2012 Reaching out   “We may not live holy lives but we live in a world full of holy moments” Kent Nerburn, Simple Truths   Today starts my first full week of school for this semester. Thinking ahead a bit fifteen weeks to go or so and graduation May 20th and…

  • Reading about yourself will sometimes offer a clue

    Bird Droppings January 8, 2012 Reading about your self will sometimes offer a clue   After over thirty three years of marriage it seems almost like day one every day and each keeps getting better. Periodically it seems I will receive at some odd hour of the night and or morning a paper to review…

  • Digging for gold

    Bird Droppings January 7, 2012 Digging for gold   “You have to drill through mud and water to get oil; you have to sift through sand and silt to get gold; you have to chop and hack through stone to get diamonds. So why do so many people feel that the treasure of ideas should…

  • Caring: A very precious commodity in teaching

    Bird Droppings January 6, 2012 Caring: A very precious commodity in teaching                   As I am pondering my last minutes before the school day starts. The air temperature is warming again outside and we are under a thinking its spring again weather watch tonight through next week. The anticipation of some rain and warm…

  • Getting the passion back

    Bird Droppings January 5, 2012 Getting the passion back   When I walked outside earlier to take our Westie for her morning bathroom break I was greeted with a near full moon, well maybe a half moon and a crystal clear sky filled with stars. Thinking to myself I said thank you for being alive…

  • Looking at the reflection beyond a mirror

    Bird Droppings January 4, 2012 Looking at the reflection beyond a mirror   I was looking over again a book this morning “Qualities of an effective teacher” by Dr. James H. Stronge, Professor in Educational Policy, Planning, and leadership at theCollegeofWilliamand Mary,WilliamsburgVirginia. Stronge looked at students and how various aspects of a teacher’s involvement effect…