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Sep

Life-Learning, from a Teacher’s Heart and Pen…

   Posted by: Barb Hartsook   in Art Works, Digital, Just Thoughts..., Painter Tutorials, Paintings

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One teacher, the kind of teacher we hope our kids and their kids can have at least once in their classrooms, writes a blog called Teacher Time.

She paints such wonderful stories with her words, her poetry. Stories that move in the mind. Like paintings that trigger a memory, we can say Yes! I’ve been there! either as writers or teachers or parents or grandparents… even as students who once had wobbly teeth and forgot things…

She wrote:

interesting…this blogging thing…
ideas in the fingers come out and take wing
on the virtual page, the info age when
reality and fantasy merge
into a digital-land…
so different from the world of wobbly teeth
and dangling shoestrings,
where trevor forgot his backpack on the bus…

Teacher Time… you can read the rest of this poem and more. Enjoy…little-boy-signed-print

A photo of this precious little boy was offered at Wet Canvas Weekend Challenge a couple weeks ago, one of a variety of photos, with an invitation to paint or draw him. I used pixel chalks and a water brush in Painter X.

He drew me with his head-bent-curiosity over a wild flower, and though it doesn’t show here, the little-boy way he sat in the grass with his ankles crossed made me want to sit too, to study what he held and found so fascinating. To grin over the seemingly simple.

I don’t know him, but it would delight me to know that he will someday have a teacher with tender awareness of how he thinks, how he processes information. One who will teach him to explore that curiosity his whole life, to follow where it will take him.

Grab a mug and share: who was your best teacher and why?

Barb

You can see more paintings here…

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9 comments so far

Gloria
 1 

What a beautiful site you have.
And so interesting, a joy to visit.

September 18th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Sliloh
 2 

What a wonderful way you have with words Barb. A wonderful compliment to your artistic side. I love your picture, you always seem to capture the essence of your subject.

I also enjoyed the mention of Teacher Time. She has such caring and insight. I wish I’d had a few teachers like that!

Anita

September 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Nadir
 3 

Awesome site!

You have a great gift with words and picture.
The little boy reminds me of my son when he was young, full of wonder for everything around him.

Nadir

September 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Adele Aldridge
 4 

Hey Barb! My comment is about your clock. I love clocks - digital, all kinds. I once had a website called, StarryNight Clocks.com where I was trying to see clock screen savers. I dropped it because … never mine.. read my lips. And looking at your clock, since I have become widget happy-sappy I may just have to add one to my blog again.

Well back to the subject - you are a great teacher.

Adele

September 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Patricia Overell
 5 

I cried as I read Teacher Time, every child should have a teacher like that at least once in their life. And I remembered two teachers that my children had, that I think of and thank almost daily.

My middle son spent years in speech and occupational therapy. His second grade teacher started him touch typing, and assigned a parent volunteer aide to him for any in-class writing, including spelling tests. “I don’t want his creativity to be stifled by his fingers” she said over and over. Today, although he still has a mild hearing problem, he works with autistic children. I think he learned that everyone can reach their potential with help from his favorite teacher.

Our oldest son was what one can only call a trouble maker in grade school. At a K-8 school, his eighth grade home room teacher gave up on him. Frustrated, unable to think of any other punishment that she hadn’t tried before, she took away his lunch play time for a month, and gave him to the first grade teacher for that time, thinking because he was very tall, he’d be cleaning the top shelves, etc. But that wonderful woman saw something, and had him tutor her children in reading. He stayed with her at lunch for another 3 months during his lunch hour, and went on to become a teacher himself.

Two women I wish I could find so that I could tell them that they’re still touching children’s lives so many years later.

Patricia

September 21st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Sharon
 6 

Hi Barb,

I come here to be refreshed in my business world and inspired in my creativity.

The first teacher that came to mind was Sister Mary Sarto, my 7th grade elementary teacher, and, yes, a nun.

She drilled grammar into us, and it helped me in so many ways - in my education, reading, and simple perseverance in life.

Aside from their serving in the church, the nuns’ teaching was their passion, and many of them passed on that passion to their students.

September 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Bean
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James Cole was the teacher who made our math class interesting by offering extra credit in computers. We started by keypunching cards, turning our cards in to him (DON’T drop them) and he would DRIVE them to the main frame at the school district office on his way home from work then pick up the print outs on his way into work. The next year he brought in a PC. The year after that he got a grant for 6 computers and a geek was born!
I was living on the streets but I still managed to make it to school most days to TA his geometry classes and play in the computer lab. He believed in me and gave me something to do and a safe place to be.

September 23rd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
*~Nightshadow~*
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Hi Barb,

Your posts are always so well written and thought provoking. I’ve had many wonderful teachers, but the one I remember the most was in 3rd grade. I struggled so with the multiplication tables, I truly think that when it came to arithmetic and math that I was learning diabled, but they had no terms for it then. They just thought I was an underachiever!

Anyway, this wonderful woman made arrangements with my mother, and took me home with her one evening after school. I had dinner there and played with her daughters, and then she gave me a tutoring session. One of the things she taught me was the little trick with the 9Xs table, and I remember it to this day.

Believe it or not, I still have problems with multiplication, but now I own a calculator so it doesn’t matter…LOL.

I will never forget the kindness of the teacher who took her own personal time to help me…

September 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
*~Nightshadow~*
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Btw…that was supposed to read “learning disabled” above…spelling I can do…typing…not so much…LOL

I do wish Word Press had some sort of editing capability for posts. :(

September 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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