The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: William Stafford

  • Should we question our questions?

    Bird Droppings March 20, 2013 Should we question our questions? Yesterday as I was sitting in my class room 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 so poorly on CRCT’s, Georgia’s version of school…

  • Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets?

    Bird Droppings March 19, 2013 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…

  • Sadly far too often children will become who we assume they are

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2013 Sadly far too often children will become who we assume they are “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” Stacia Tauscher So often I watch teachers treating students simply as things in the class room, items to be dealt with…