The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Teaching

  • The ability of surmounting learning difficulties

    Bird Droppings October 2, 2013 The ability of surmounting learning difficulties “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome An…

  • Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings October 1, 2013 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? 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 from a broom sage…

  • Now my studies are making sense

    Bird Droppings September 30, 2013 Now my studies are making sense My head feels like a sponge from not taking sinus meds as of yet, with cool weather and weather change my head always feels it. Perhaps why I was sitting thinking back to a day we as teachers in Walton County were not paid…

  • Maybe one day I will find an answer

    September 30, 2010 Maybe one day I will find an answer “In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tarawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast and that from them, and from…

  • Can we see a gray world in color?

    Bird Droppings September 27, 2013 Can we see a gray world in color? “Stress is the body and mind’s response to any pressure that disrupts its normal balance. It occurs when our perceptions of events don’t meet our expectations and we don’t manage our reaction to the disappointment. As a response, stress expresses itself as…

  • We all know the slogan just do it, but I add when?

    Bird Droppings September 26, 2013 We all know the slogan just do it, but I add when? With the issue of women’s rights in political forefront of nearly every election and several other civil right issues as issues as well I referred to two very famous and wise women in history to start today. I…

  • Is not friendship a rather simple concept?

    Bird Droppings September 25, 2013 Is not friendship a rather simple concept? Recently I had the mother of three former students tell me how much her sons and daughter thought of me while I was coming into my current favorite store, Kroger. So here I am sitting at the kitchen table pondering in the stillness…

  • Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark?

    Bird Droppings September 24, 2014 Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark? “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on…

  • What does it take for that light bulb to go on?

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2013 What does it take for that light bulb to go on? It has been nearly six years since my doctorial cohort at Georgia Southern ended and we began the journey on our own. Now I am a member of a new cohort at Piedmont College and wandering down the path…

  • Searching for integrity midst the fogginess of reality

    Bird Droppings September 22, 2013 Searching for integrity midst the fogginess of reality “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not…