100 Day Project – Day 52 – 9:16 pm I’m sure no one else but me is counting or cares; but if a reader is interested, I know very well that Day 52 had almost a week between it and Day 51! I can blame the crazy October snow storm for a day or two; [...]
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 [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 48 – 8:08 pm First, if by any chance you were counting, I’m sure I’ve miscounted again! Since I tend to miss writing on the weekends; I decided I’ll just count the next day I write, not the days of the week! I haven’t missed more than two days in [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 42 – 8:16 p.m. (If you’re paying attention I skipped Days 40 and 41 over the weekend.) An interesting internet road happened today: First my usual email newsletter blast from Child Care Exchange about Creativity. From there I decided to follow their link to The 99% website that seems to [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography That’s all I have to say today. It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the [...]
100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed [...]
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 [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 50 – Access, yet again
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 50 – 9:12 am The President of my college and work place says it eloquently on my behalf today: Access remains the foundation of community colleges : Commentary by President Robert Pura
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