I was told today by a student, with others agreeing, that I was a very deep person. Last class meeting, the students participated in a Literacy Month event at our college. The local Head Start bused 30 preschool children to our college’s library where we had the joy of reading one-on-one with the children, joining [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 62 – 11:30 am One of the workshops I went to at the NEFDC Conference recently was a workshop on creating syllabi of interest. While there are several sections I must put in, I have a good deal of leeway about the rest. Although I learned that at some institutions, [...]
Day 100 Project – Day 61 – 8:14 pm Exhaustion. This week was non-stop – all five days I was up before 6 am, and although I made it to bed most nights by 10, the days were so full, I practically ran through them. Yesterday I finished the week by going to the NEFDC [...]
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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! [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 59 – 9:02 pm Just returned from the Greenfield Community College’s Annual Foundation Meeting where I heard Dr. Bumphus of the American Association of Community Colleges make a brief presentation. My takeaway : 2 % of the philanthropic giving to colleges is given to community colleges where 46% of all [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 57 – 8:45 p.m. “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.” Herbert A. Simon (One of the founders of the field of Cognitive Science and [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 55 – 9:26 p.m. A quote from an email a colleague sent me today as a result of her visiting one of my classes during Open Classroom Week (a week where faculty volunteer to open their classes to other faculty and staff to visit and also to visit other classrooms [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 51 – 2:09 p.m. SNOW – a big snow storm in October! A snow day today! There’s much to say about the craziness of it, the no electricity, have fun talking and cleaning odd things and doing other chores that require no electricity, and hot cocoa on the sterno! But [...]
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