Jane Jones
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired Teacher Adjunct Professor ODU |
| Location | Manassas, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | Since starting this blog a lot has happened - I've become interested in exercise after having several health challenges Also, taking care of my now 91-year-old mother and 71-year-old husband, who has a-fib has made me appreciate the need to revise my lifestyle. In doing that - I have taken a look at how I think about the totality of being successful. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to think and how to live. The name for what I do is awkward, but descriptive: Combosizing. The aim is to be fit, informed and fantastic. Fantastic just means choosing goals to match talents , requirements and outcomes in a meaningful way. I discovered that health is the foundation for being able to make any headway in life. Information overload and the inability to process information correctly is an obvious problem, but what is the solution? With the emphasis on testing it is a problem to set meaningful goals that allow anyone to feel fantastic. There must be a shift in our approach to education to value our students individually and make time to do that for the whole school community. |
| Interests | All phases of classroom management, writing, publishing, rubrics, mining student creativity while keeping test scores high, successful teacher training. |
| Favorite Movies | "Clockwork Orange", "2001 A Space Odyessy", "Encino Man", "Planet of the Apes", "Man on a Train", "Ten Little Indians", "The Thin Man", "The African Queen", "The Birds", "The Devil Wears Prada" |
| Favorite Music | Spanish Guitar, Flaminco, Hip Hop, Classic Rock, Classical Music, Bluegrass and Country. Love it all, but starting at the top of the list as my favorite and moving down. |
| Favorite Books | It's a Boys Life by Robert McCormack, Myths, Fairtails, Ship of Gold on the Deep Blue Sea, (Any true (well-researched story that reads like fiction, Children's books and Photography books (historical, people and places - need to tell a story) |
Come up with some possible band names for your group that features a washboard and a styrofoam tuba.
Digit Ditties, Funky Blow-Harder Band, No Rhythm Plenty of Blues, Tune Pan Alley Gals with Zoot Flute and U Won't Believe Your Ears