100 Day Project – Day 65 – 8:44 a.m. Well, I must admit life has been very full — usually is – and I’m considering not continuing this Project — could I call it the 65 day project? I’ve skipped quite a few days; and see by my trusty old paper calendar that I should […]
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100 Day Project – Day 65 – Persistance
November 28th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 63 – Deep
November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
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 57 – Doing
November 14th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Important People, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
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 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 […]
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100 Day Project – Day 48 – The need to learn
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Learning Spanish, Teaching & Learning, Work
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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