It began with the sound of the soothing song of the Black bird and its hectic, laborious upbringing of two or more broods of bickering hatchlings per summer – That was my image of the teacher I am becoming (willingly or not), and a suitable poetic background to the challenge of entering Sisters Academy for a short while. In the process of finding my place in this strange as of…
Reading about forest gardens and roots while eating super dark ecological chocolate. How politically correct does it get? These guys in the article want to heal the earth – no less – with natural Band-Aids, which preserve the carbon in the ground and let the roots intertwine. I feel taken back to the days when we were vegetarians for the sake of Nature, were idealists with a firm belief in…
Here’s what I plan to present the students with before we start. I will sprint them in large letters, put them in a frame and hang them on the wall. 1. You must have a purpose with what you write. 2. You must write from your heart but use your head. 3. You must be true to the genre in which you write. 4. You must publish what you write…
The Sisters of Math are planning a quest of several tasks and challenges within the theme of growth. That particular theme is a focus of criticism when used in terms of economical growth as a paradigm in society. We want to expand the theme and explore it in terms of other areas. The students will measure the growth of grass, the decreasing oscillation of a pendulum and the chance of…
The perfume smells like my Grandmother. Not as she smelled in recent years when I was an adult, but the way she smelled when I visited her and granddad when I was a kid. That’s a nice memory to explore, but how to use it in my math classes in Sister’s Academy? I don’t know. Maybe the different genre-workshops in my English classes should each bring a certain smell to…
Is a sensuous approach to education one that is more collaborative, and less individual? Sharing experiences that all should relate to somehow, might be a better “can opener” that promises a common stream of thought. Teacher, Sisters Academy #01 at HF & VUC FYN, FLOW, Odense, Denmark
Hello. Thank you for a nice week with the sisters. I learned a lot about my poetic self. But I still have a lot to explore inside the Academy. I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new Year.
In the Chameleon Zone The journey has begun, the journey into exploration of my new poetic self – Louise the chameleon. I wish to taste, feel and monitor every single vibration in my new leaning habitat where my four legs will be listing, dancing and shivering of pure expectation joy.