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100 Day Project – Day 60 – Transformation and Elephants

November 17th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Teaching & Learning, Work

100 Day Project – Day 60 – 7:18 pm The first day of class they were shy. The first day of class they said, almost in unison, oh no, not me: I’m not going to sing, dance, and play an elephant in front of my peers! What do you want us to do? No way! [...]

100 Day Project – Day 54 – Pull up a chair

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 54 – 9:00 pm Today was Advising Day at the community college where I work – a day to sit with your Advisor (for those students who choose to, of course), and talk about your goals, where your studies are going, how they are going, what you want to be [...]

100 Day Project – Day 53 – Innovators

November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Books, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Quote of the Week, Reading

100 Day Project – Day 53 – 10:14 pm “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…but for me, education means making creators…you have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.” Jean Piaget I’ve just purchased the newly published Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson (although [...]

100 Day Project – Day 50 – Joy

October 27th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 50 – 10:01 pm Here’s the dictionary definition of “joy:” joy [joi] noun 1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son’s success. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something [...]

100 Day Project – Day 49 – access and equity

October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, family, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work

100 Day Project – Day 49 – 8:32 pm A few thoughts and moments occurred today that I’m thinking must be related somehow. In one of my Education courses, the students were exploring the printing with various objects (process vs product) in creative experiences. The topic came up of whether food should be used in [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 45 – Power of Mentoring

October 20th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Volunteer, Work

100 Day Project – Day 45 – 9;05 p.m. Become a Big. Do you want to make a difference in the world? Yes, you could donate some money, bring some cans to the food bank, donate your old clothes, your old car, and put coins in the red bucket during the holidays. These are good [...]

100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking

October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Work

100 Day Project – Day 44 – 9:30 p.m. This evening I had occasion to have dinner with three other very bright, and devoted women: women who have worked for years with young children and their families. Discussion ranged from jobs and families to the state of politics, and about children. This recent study was [...]

100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality

October 15th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work

100 Day Project – Day 39 – the next day at 6:34….. “It is important to ask and answer this question: What do students need to know and be able to do “out there” as a result of their work in our classrooms.” Ruth Stiehls The Outcomes Primer Exactly! I ask myself this constantly. At [...]

100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs

October 13th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared [...]

100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play

October 7th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Play

The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults! Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and [...]