Learn, learn, learn
from yourself, from one another, from the world around you.
Be that person that you’ve come to be,
the what, that you’ve seen, heard, felt and thought.
Venture into the valleys filled with darkness
and into the fertile fields of the mind,
Wearing only the vest of courage that you have
earned from following your [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Teacher, Teach Me.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sacred Writing 3: Feelings from Laura’s word cards
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Death,
a word on a piece of paper,
an announcement in the local paper,
something that once was, but now, never will be.
time spent or lost in living in
resentment, fear, guilt, misery, all walk hand-in-hand
to the door of death,
sulking in the shadows of a life not lived.
a flash of terror or the slightest touch from on high
brings us to [...]
Differentiated Instruction-Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What is it? Oh yeah, it’s that kind of teaching that gives every student what they need. That’s Utopia isn’t it? Can anyone really expect us to be able to do this? I suppose there must be teachers out there who are able to do it or it wouldn’t be at the forefront of the [...]
A Place I’d Like To Go To
Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have never really traveled very much. However, I was able to drive to NY with one of the Vista workers that shared our home back in the late sixties. Suzanne was an English major from Manhattan, Debbie an English major from New Jersey. I thought that they were so cool. They were smart, beautiful, with [...]
Constructivism: Building Knowledge with Visual Tools
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Constructivism:
Building Knowledge with Visual Tools
I. Needs Assessment:
As more information comes at us at an alarming rate, it is necessary that we devise ways to handle this information. Building constructions or visual representations of our knowledge is learning. It is the making sense of our experiences. I want to present some information on the constructivist [...]
A Maze
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yanked up from birth,
by the hair of her head.
imprisioned by even the mountains that bring her comfort.
Torn between her fate and
her longing for fulfillment,
stretching the boundairies for truth, and for game.
Wounded by her thirst for love
and her envy of life,
hiding in others’ shadows, for fear of the light
searching wildly for an open [...]
Ramblings
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Off the road again, staggering in the fog of someone else’s dream.
Is that a face I’ve seen before
or just one more stranger along this path?
Just yesterday my face was bathed in the light of hope,
Why did it leave me, and how can I get it back?
Deeds of days gone by are circling round my [...]
Holler Road
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I love that old road and I have hated that old road. That’s the road that ended at the school bus stop. Eight children caught the bus there at any one time. There were four or five from our family and three to four from Dad’s Sister’s kids. We were the last to be picked up [...]
