The plum tree, which bore so well this summer, was seriously overgrown. Some branches, under their load of plums, had snapped. Others had simply drooped so low they weren’t going to recover. One branch was so low Tom had trouble mowing on that side of the tree. In addition, it was growing into the European […]
Category: Education Professional
What I Learned in Kindergarten (last week)
I spent a day in Kindergarten on Friday, thanks to a teacher acquaintance who kindly allowed me to volunteer all day so I could observe her classroom management style. I have substituted a few times in kindergarten, once in preschool (fortunately for me that was the time the most-amazing para S.H. was there, and since […]
Professional Development?
This morning, as I do most Saturdays, I attended an online seminar from Classroom 2.0 Live! This morning, unlike many, I was away from home and partially distracted by my parents’ wonderful dog. Here he is, attending to the web seminar when I stepped away for a moment.
Science and Experience (delayed post)
I began to write this in October 2012. Here at the beginning of 2014, now finally teaching and dealing with flexible thinking as I and the family adjust to the changes of the last year, I am putting it up for comment — I do not consider this a completed piece, but a holding post […]
Posts about Teaching
I am adding in some pages and re-ordering others to bring all of my materials about teaching into a single strand in the sidebar. The top page in that strand is TEACHING. The pages are listed in the (rather long) sidebar on the right. I welcome comments and suggestions. Please note that comments are moderated. […]
Sometimes confirmation is good…
Today I confirmed that I am really not cut out to teach very young kids — at least, I need more experience with whole-class, non-specialist time, with second graders. I enjoyed my day, but it took me a little while to “hit my stride” with giving instructions, knowing what I was going to need to […]
The joys of teaching
That moment when the student who has been in tears realizes that they aren’t expected to know everything already. The point in the day when a student spontaneously smiles and says, “Thank you.” The teacher next door who pokes his nose in and says hello without following up with a request to borrow… The administrator […]
Parent-School Communications and In-school Technologies
I have just finished attending a web seminar, my usual Saturday-morning activity. Glad our power was restored in time for this! The livebinder of links for this webinar is at livebinders.com classroom20live. The actual webinar is available for playback at live.classroom20.com archives (there is a link to archives at the top of the page). It […]
New pages at Stidmama.com
I have added two pages, both are in the sidebar to the right. Under "About" is a Page that reads My Online Resume. No surprise, but it has the basic text of the resume I walked in to a local district last week. I am going to add in some of the additional activities and […]