There are no recipes - What are your ponders, questions and curiosities?

Blog posting one:

One thing in class that I encourage as a student in class, as a student in life and as an educator is to ponder, ponder, ponder and to question, question, question. Rarely are there definitive answers in life as well as in education and being an educator. The more one teaches the more questions one has. The more one teaches in different settings the greater range of questions and ponders one has – there are no two school alike, there are no two students alike there are no two classrooms alike. One may teach in the same classroom all day – but each group of students that come into that classroom changes the complexion of the class and how one goes about teaching. Therefore it is really hard to teach each class the same way and that there needs to be theme in variation in how one teaches.

There are no recipes in teaching – there are no easy answers to questions. There are some challenges in being an educator and there are some wonderful joyful times. There should be more joyful times – when there are not more joyful times than one probably needs to change one’s game plan and ask more questions.

So in response to this blog posting I want you to identify five ponders and or questions you have about being an educator and why you have these questions or ponders and how you would like to discover responses to theme.

Please reply to this blog posting on this blog.

Blog posting Two

I like to ask students to identify favorite websites that they think all educators should know and why these websites all so good. I then compile these websites and make a list for the class. So on your blog site please reply to this blog posting.

If you want to explore the last two-quarter postings you will see some websites I like to share.

I look forward to reading your responses, ponders, and questions and ideas.