Giddy-up!
I love this post. I love the title. Giddy-up or Give it up? Lessons from my day with President Carter!
Vicki Davis got to hear Jimmy Carter’s “writing across the ccurriculum message” at Georgia Southwerstern University. Jimmy Carter is one of my heroes. Talk about making a difference with your life - he leads the way! You have to go read her ‘lessons learned’! She really captures the essence of learning. Her observations are profound.
Her blogging keeps getting better and better and she really captures the meaning of the connections we can make to learning. She says “Teachers must say “Giddyup” and not “give up” with their students. She talks of some of her painful observatations as she observed the audience. We’ve alll had them. She doesn’t give up though. That’s what’s important. Listen to her words here:
I also learn from every commenter, every student, and every book! Never before in history, has such a wealth of knowledge from those who know been available. Today, RSS means Relatively Simple access to Sages (well RSaS, but you get my point.)
You can tell Vicki is in for the long haul. She’s not giving up! Our students will rise to our expectations. Let’s not give up. Let’s “giddyup”!
Great post, Vicki! Thanks for sharing. You’re making a difference!
March 18th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
You know that you are one of my “sages” and on my must read list. Your compliments honor me. On days when my peers make fun of “this blog thing” that they don’t quite understand, I go back to comments such as yours.
I believe in good education and in engaging students in new ways. It is worth it to share past my classroom as I hope will many more educators in the future.
Thank you for being an inspiration to “newbies” like me, Anne. I hope one day I get to meet you in person!