Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Welcome to The Mind Gardener
Welcome to The Mind Gardener. It is my mission to provide a collection of resources for parents and educators who play a great role in nurturing young minds. A gardener is someone who tends his garden by preparing the soil, nurturing the plants from seedling to maturity, and by allowing them to grow on their own according to their natural growth processes. Occasionally a gardener has to provide nourishment to address nutrient deficiencies. Sometimes he also needs to address pest control in order to prevent plant destruction. And most importantly the joy of every gardener is to be able to celebrate each milestone that the plants in the garden achieve from sprouting to flowering to fruiting and reseeding. Such is the life of parents and educators. I believe that we are mandated to act like a master gardener in our families and our classrooms. Nurturing minds like a gardener I believe is a fitting metaphor. There are many areas that need to be taken care of as we nurture young minds. This blog is dedicated to exploring and discovering each of them in the hope that we become a better and more effective Mind Gardener.
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Mildred, I like the connection the author brought to education! What a cute way to focus no the importance of nurturing students.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to learning more about your topic as we all move to teaching online.
ReplyDeleteI like your metaphor. Teaching is a lot like gardening, some students you have to tend to more and others you can leave alone and nurture when needed. But it's important to water and weed when needed, but is a joy watching them mature and grow.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone who has created a garden, this is a metaphor we can relate to for sure. I especially like the Pest Control part. We do need to be careful what we allow to invade our garden!
ReplyDeleteMildred, brilliant job framing your blog around a metaphor! The metaphor of a gardener will really be able to help your audience break down the information you present throughout your blog :)
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