October 27, 2014
Asking questions is a curious activity. In classrooms, asking good questions on the part of both the teacher and student leads to construction of knowledge. On TV, asking questions can lead to a big win on Jeopardy. In elementary school, asking questions often led to a reprimand if I didn’t raise my hand before asking, or if I raised my hand while the teacher was working with the Blue Jay reading group and not my Cardinal reading group. I cannot remember ever feeling good about someone skirting my question. But…
October 18, 2014
Let’s eat, Grandma!
Let’s eat Grandma!
Good punctuation saves lives!
This reminded me of my former life as a junior high English teacher and all the times my students asked me, “Why do we need to know all of this grammar?” I’m sure my answer was the profound answer of every great teacher, “Someday you will need this.” Would that I had seen the coffee cup back then! Would that I could have a redo with my students because the more I study Scripture, the more I regret my response to…
October 12, 2014
“If you stare 
at the mailbox you’re going to drive smack into it. Notice it enough so you don’t hit it but don’t stare at it and smash my car up.”– Mr. Hsu, Driver’s Ed Instructor
“You steer where you stare. When trouble arises you must look where you want to go.” -Gary Magwood, former national car racing champion and instructor
Once we get this down then the rest will follow—namely your car!
It sounds way too simple but research suggests we automatically steer in the direction we have locked our vision. We all…
October 4, 2014
I never mastered the Monkey Bars and I would like to blame that on Google. I’d like to blame Google because it wasn’t around when I needed to google how to swing from rung to rung of the bars like a monkey swaying through the trees. I could climb to the top of the monkey bars and perch myself there, but I could not even begin to gracefully let go of one rung and grasp the next. But I guess it’s not fair to blame Google even though many videos…
