The routine of the work week and the pressure of our job responsibilities can often get the best of us. However, whether it's putting more effort into your job, or finding one that makes you truly happy, its time to commit to your career.
"#1 self-care- Yes
#2 enrich human connections- yes
#3 make plans- yes
#4 Practice gratitude- no
#5 make time for fun and adventure- yes
#6 think of your impact- no
I’m happy to note that I’ve been making small progress in this direction."
"Rich Classroom Climate: This has been a tough one this year. In fact, I'm doing everything I can to escape the classroom itself. Students are burned out with Chromebooks and I'm sure they'd bleed hand sanitizer at this point. I typically have flexible seating, hot water for hot tea (I create a coffee house environment), an the ability to move around when needed. All of that has flown right out the pandemic-framed window for now. These days, I spend more time than usual just talking and sharing stories with my students (nothing to do with ELA besides story-telling/ speaking and listening). I try to get them outside to read and work together in the fresh air (I get some raised eyebrows for this from admin and I don't care). The climate in my "classroom" is more colloquial than ever before. I want students to feel welcome and safe. I want them to understand that I'm learning with them instead of just teaching at them. I want the to realize that we're in this odd season together.
I still do one thing that I don't think my admin would smile about-- I maintain a snack cabinet for bus riders who might not get dinner. It's open to anyone and always full since everything is donated by a salvage grocery in Marietta, SC. I show up there once a week and the owner just hands me several bags of individually packaged snacks.
Well, I guess I do two things-- the other is that I maintain a relationship with a local optometrist and Zenni.com. The doc does eye exams/ prescriptions for free and Zenni.com makes free glasses for all of my students in need. "
"Hi Mei Mei
It's going okay. Found some cool details this week. I have a real deadline instead of this fake one in a few weeks so I'll need to start working faster.
Check out this great diagram I found yesterday of mine "creep" from 1835 (top of p. 238): https://books.google.com/books?id=tb0OAAAAYAAJ&vq=creep&pg=PA238#v=onepage&q&f=false
The floor buckles under the structural stresses created by not leaving enough supports to hold the roof. Because the supports are themselves made of coal, this was sometimes called "pillar robbing." Apparently the miners knew this was happening first when they *heard* the subsidence happening underground. Pretty scary stuff!"
"Planejei mais uns dois capítulos, além de ajeitar algumas coisas do perfil de Cherror. Estou muito animada com a história por enquanto, mas a coisa vai ficar louca quando Novembro chegar. Kkkkk"
"Eu fiz um ótimo trabalho ontem traduzindo quase mil palavras em uma hora. Entretanto, esqueci de marcar aqui que também fiz um bom trabalho anteontem, então, é, falhei em marcar, mas não em fazer. Hehe"
"I have completed todays challenge, I am able to hammer ons, and move through the A7, D7, E7 more easily. I also practiced ode to joy and downloaded the music"
"Worked on my voice today actually- singing along a melody line that’s sort of inspired by hide and seek my Imogen heap I want to make with a vocoder eventually. Didn’t solidify lyrics really but felt good about stretching my vocal muscles and engaging my mind in the harmonic daydreams"
"I built a simple Battleship game today and spend about 45 min trying to figure out why it didn't work. Only to discover I accidentally used the "==" comparison operator instead of using "=" to set a variable. Fun times, but it works now!"
"Hello Chelsie from the future,
Right now, I am very sleepy but I committed to make a fresh prospect list today! 225 and will update it further every single day. And I read the first module and I am so excited to invite people with the new found scripts tomorrow. Laban lang self. You can do it!!! "
"Dear self, it's your 2nd day of the 20 in 30 Days challenge with your accountability partner Chelsie Barrera.
This is what we did for the day:
1. Added 10 New People in Facebook
2. Joined any Mingla Group
3. Listed down 200 minimum fresh prospect lists "
"Wednesday 10/28/2020 ( so I realized I'd messed up the dates of the previous two Monday was 10/26)
1) Drafting a new contract template and the specific details of this commission's contract. I signed up for Pandadoc to make e-signing easier for clients and watched a tutorial on how to use it. ( 1 hr 25 mins)
2) Zoom meeting with the client. (30 mins)
3) Art business discussion with Graphic Design colleague and a corporate attorney about the best type of business to file under and marketing ideas (1 hr)
4) Content Creation: Working on a character portrait piece based on a Were-tiger NPC from one of my DnD games as inspiration (4 hrs)"
"Tuesday 10/28/2020 (Day 2)
Spent my two hours:
1) Finishing the 'The ONLY 6 reasons ANYONE would EVER care about your art' (remaining 25 mins) -Ergojosh youtube channel.
2) Rewatched the video for a .deeper understanding and appreciation of ideas (33 mins 44 secs)
3) Had a client meeting about a commission request: determining client expectations, writing a rough brief, estimating workload, and creating an estimate of pricing (roughly 1.5 hours)."
"Balance comes from mindfulness. Mindfulness comes from peaceful observations. Peaceful observations come from a still mind.A still mind comes from addressing those spinning thoughts before they take on a life of their own."
"My goals are not small enough and hence they are quite overwhelming. Over the course of the next one month, my goal is to break down each and everyone of my goal to the smallest possible tasks. Every single one of them"
"Section 1 complete. Downloaded musescore, ordered staff paper book, and printed staff paper. I am now going to check out musescore and play with it 10 minutes a day in prep for next section."
"OK allow 21 violations and try to take it seriously from now on. the violations are scaled. gulp. keep curfew at 7pm. and start logging your new years goals"
"10/27/2020: Started reading through study guide. There is about 560 pages to get through.
-Read through pages 1-19 after an hour
10/28/2020: 1 Hour: Pages 19-36 Chapter 1 Complete
-95% on Review Questions
-100% on Activity 1.4"
"미디 찍을 때 자꾸 퍽퍽 튀는 소리가 들린다. 재샐 될 때도 그런다. 드라이버를 다시 설치해야한다는 말도 있고, 컴이 후져서 그렇다는 말도 있다. 뭐 지금 컴을 바꿀 수도 없는데 드라이버부터 다시 해봐야겠지. 버퍼사이즈 문제라는 말도 있고. 그러고보니 버퍼 사이즈 개념같은 것도 좀 희미해져서 다시 복습 좀 해야겠음"
"Week 4- Rich Classroom Climate Mindset
A rich classroom climate will make all students feel part of the learning process. Having completed the self-assessment, I have noted that a classroom climate is crucial when a teacher wants his or her students to achieve. The learning styles an educator uses influence a classroom climate and a teacher should employ learning styles that enhance a rich classroom environment. What I know about this mindset is that it also fosters talents, it gives students opportunities to express themselves and even interact and build on their social skills. It is a wide area that takes time to achieve as it is all about inclusivity. When we talk about inclusivity, the culture, and economic background of a student must be considered. Considering one and leaving out the other will make the strategy ineffective.
Insights Gained
• A rich classroom environment gives most students a “voice”
• Understanding the needs of a student fosters a rich classroom environment
• Students need to feel safe physically and emotionally in a class.
Strategy to implement
Setting safe classroom norms
This would work in my setting because I am very good at ensuring class norms are adhered to. Emotional safety and cool rules are a subset of the strategy that I would like to implement in the future. A rich classroom climate will enable a student’s growth because he or she has peace of mind and can contribute to class issues without the fear of being mocked by others. For this strategy, I will not dismiss student’s answers, I will ensure all students have something to say, I will ask those students who feel left out to contribute something and even say what they think about a given issue. It’s all about inclusivity, being ‘one’ despite the disparities (economic wise) they have.
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"No matter how stressful it is, I will continue to make an effort towards achieving little goals of balance throughout the course of the day. I am sure that it’s going to be challenging but that’s the story of our lives."
"Again the focus should be on small goals. I should not have to stress over any goals for that matter in the future. The key is to break it down to as small as possible."
