My thoughts for the day:
1. Life is so much easier as a teacher when you require the students to be independent thinkers!
- I have this awful habit of wanting to do all of the work for my students. For example, if they are off task, I am right there telling them what they should be doing. In reality, I should have been asking them "What are you doing? Ok, what should you be doing?" This approach feels so much less stressful and really allows me to focus on the class as a whole, as apposed to getting focus on the needs of my disruptive students.
2. Pausing makes all of the difference.
- I am super lucky to have a loving, supportive CT (cooperating teacher) that is very patient with me, even when I do silly things or get frustrated when a lesson goes poorly. Her goal for me this year is to learn how to make teaching feel less like a job, and more like a fun, interesting adventure with my students. Since I tend to turn into police woman Jennie when I feel overwhelmed (especially with side conversations), she has asked me to try and pause every time I start feeling like this. Started trying this today and boy does it beat getting upset, or sending kids out. It feels so good to take a deep breath and realize that my calm will help the students to feel calm. Thank you Milli, I needed that :]
3. Eating healthy, clean meals helps me stay focused and maintain a high energy level
- When I eat super sugar or fatty foods I always end up feeling sluggish and tired. Today I started off my day with a smoothie:
- 1 Frozen banana (in chunks)
- 1/2 cup berries (any kind)
- 2 hand fulls of Kale
- 1/2 cup Fage 0% greek yogurt
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 Tbsp flax seed (ground)
* Super good, pretty green, very healthy :]
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