My Point of View

     This blog business is new to me, so I humbly ask that you...the reader...be as patient as you can with me.  Just before beginning this process I thought long and hard about what content I should delve into.  I knew that it would be education oriented, but that area is so broad!
     Nothing national or newsworthy (Way much of that already).  No opinions about the state of affairs in which education finds itself.  Just me, my classroom, my experience, my views on all that I have learned and UN-learned as a teacher.
     I have a strong feeling that many educators will be able to identify with the dreary, hopefully not too repetitive words I have here.  The ups, and the downs of what a classroom is all about, or what I believe a classroom should be about.
     One of the very first things I learned after my first year as an educator was this...with the exception of the vast knowledge I had gained in my classes...nearly everything I learned in college about being a teacher went right out the window!  I had 30 fifth graders.  I figured out very quickly, early on that year, that in order for me to get my kids to move mountains, I had to give them reasons to want to.