100 Day Project – Day 16 – 6:23 a.m. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired […]
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100 Day Project – Day 16 – Social Contract
September 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 16 – Social Contract · Musings
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100 Day Project – Day 15 – Balance or Roller Coaster
September 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · 100 Days Project, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 15 – 9:17 p.m. Today was a teaching high! Last fall in a 100 level course for pre-service early care and education students, I introduced the concept of deciding what you will read when. Well, it’s not really choosing what you will read of any material – but what you […]
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100 Days Project – Day 11 Take Two – Organization
September 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, My Goals, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Days Project Day 11 – Take Two Not that anyone is reading my posts, but I realized that I miscounted already! As I recommend to my Student Success class students, organization is the key to everything; so take away is that I need to pre-number a calendar and that way I’ll keep track of […]
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100 Days Project – Day 11 – Passion
September 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Days Project – Day 11 – Passion · 100 Days Project, Children, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Days Project – Day 11 – 8:31 p.m. “Ten. At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards … like locking eyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapses and neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, the person becoming better, and a smile […]
100 Days Project – Day 10 – Individual Student
September 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Days Project – Day 10 – Individual Student · 100 Days Project, Musings, photo of the week, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
?? Some days I’d like to be a teacher of long ago (okay, I’d like to believe it’s long ago, but in fact I know there are still teachers who teach this way) who gave the same lesson to all the students each day. I am always surprised each September (why is it I forget?) […]
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