GrandChildren are the Best!

LEGOs are a favorite pastime of my oldest grandson and are occupying more and more of his younger brother's time. The point is that I am using them as models for drawings. They can be surprisingly good with emotional poses, and the fact that they are so simple in their form makes them the perfect model for emotional basics.

Onerous

 I had a colleague tell me the other day that they felt our teacher recertification process was "onerous". I am often pulled in so many directions with my classroom charges from "admin" that I would tend to agree with his considered opinion. 

Sunrise Over Country Club

The first point of change is the development of technology and the painfully slow (to me

at least) adaptation of educational practice to advances in technology. The equipment

has been there, the VCR’s, the digital cameras, and all of that, but the excitement for

and ease of use of these technologies has obscured their deeper potential as

educational tools, and now we are at what to many seems a saturation point. The

common core curriculum initiatives in Math and ELA are a perfect example of how

educators and legislators, both inside and beyond the classroom have bowed to the

belief that computers have the capability to make anything possible, and so have

created a curriculum that is actually impossible for every student to achieve.