Anyway, here I am with a hot cup of freshly brewed coffee at my side. The Internet is quiet. It's that time of the year when people are stuck in road or airline traffic rather than in the traffic of the information superhighway. Little things about teachers and teaching are suddenly dancing and prancing and spinning around in my head and heart like this season's sugar plum fairies and dredels. They're probably little wisps drifting up from the embers of a hot and heavy discussion a bunch of us were involved in last week on one particular list.
Students have one thing in common.
The former is about me, the latter about others. A teacher who is afraid to make a mistake usually doesn't create anything. What we model for children in the classroom, they will take with them into adulthood and out into society. You know, I savor a good wine. But, I don't look at the bottle to find it.