Tag Archives: Leisure

Whatcha Got in the Steam Pot? How Do Teachers Relax?

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Our Annual National Teacher Appreciation Day Show 

Poem: “Italian Food” by Shel Silverstein 

Statement of the Whole:  This is our second annual National Teacher Appreciation Day Show.  To celebrate, Jason and Steve have fun discussing what “down time” looks like for a teacher.  What does one who loves to teach all day do to take it easy?  Because they both find cooking relaxing, that is what is in the pot for this episode.  Try some of their relaxation stew. 

Resources: 

Link to Steve’s infrequent foray into food blogging: Bringing It to the Table 

Jason’s Onion Ring recipe: click here 

For those who want to enter the fragrant and soothing scene of offset smoking, click here. 

Salt: A World History 

The Art of Teaching 

Should Homeschooling Teachers Give Grades?

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Poem: “There was a little girl” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Statement of the Whole: 

There can be no doubt that modern education deals in the currency of grades.  But how far down that road does the homeschool teacher need to go?  Steve and Jason have some fun discussing this issue, suggesting that while the homeschool affords you a great deal of freedom from such things, you need to keep the big picture in view and “play the game.” 

Have You Read…Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture?

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Poem: None!  Can you believe it?  Jason skipped the poem, this discuss was so exciting. 

Statement of the Whole:  In a world swimming with books and information, Jason and Steve take an episode from time to time to highlight a great reading on education.  Join them in a discussion of Josef Pieper’s classic, Leisure: the Basis of Culture, and how cultivating a classroom of leisure and contemplation is the best way to ensure students receive a human education. 

Link to the book on Amazon:  here 

Brief Overview of the work and life of Josef Pieper: here