It always starts on day one of classes when my first activity is for them to line up by birthday, irrespective of year. My objective is just to get them moving, interact some with each other, and to suggest that my courses are not very conventional. The process is...
We are committed to the lifetime of learning mantra. I started taking classes at NMC in 1978, taking a BASIC computer programming class in the basement of Scholar’s Hall. After 40 years, this is likely my final semester as a full-time student. In 2008, I retired...
Tonight I will walk through areas of downtown Traverse City with my colleagues Lisa Blackford and Brandon Everest and we’ll be accompanied by about one hundred of our students from 5 different classes, their friends and family, and members of the community. We’ll be...
I would like to share with you a poem titled “Horizon.” It is from a book of poems by Rudy Francisco titled: Helium. I came across the book during a Read Harder challenge. I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments. I hope there is something beautiful on...
Last year, when my daughter was a freshman in college and having a really hard time, she would complain to me about everything. She was unable to see anything good about her college, her new city, her life far from home. So I pulled out a strategy I used to use when...
Am I worrying to much about things that I cannot change? Am I worrying out about the one time I said that one thing wrong that one day? Am I worrying about my student that has never missed a class and now has been gone all week? Am I worrying about the student that...
Ironically enough, the last blog post for this challenge has arrived at the same time that everyone is busy in every part of their lives: school, work, all of the grading, frantically getting ready for winter, holiday planning, doctor’s visits, “fall” cleaning, did I...
So, what am I going to reflect on this week? Good Question.
Last week, all was fairly quiet in my teaching world.
One class spent the week doing review for their test next week.
The other class was quiet, but …