So, you want to be a teacher? Here are some things you need to be aware of and consider as you make your career choice:
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We love teaching our students various note taking strategies throughout the year. We even have some awesome graphic organizers that we sell on all the different types of note taking that we teach.
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Secondary traumatic stress (STS) is the emotional distress that arises when someone vicariously experiences the traumatic experiences of another individual. Sometimes this response is known as compassion fatigue.
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I’m going to go the route of good skincare, healthy eating, staying out of the sun (for the most part), micro needling, and lasers. That seems to be the best option for me at this point in time. I’ve been taking the Lyma supplements for a while now, and I have been very interested in the Lyma Laser. It helps with anti-aging, wrinkles, skin elasticity, texture, and tone. Bonus: it has zero downtime, zero damage, and it’s painless.
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Let's look at another one of those often expressed pieces of jargon many in the educational world like to throw out: “If you don’t love teaching, get out before you cause harm to the children.” I recently read an awesome article by Elizabeth Dampf called “It's about Skillsets, Not Sainthood.” In the latest ASCD article Elizabeth Dampf shares the very familiar expectations posed by the teaching world. As teachers, it is expected that we love our jobs, love our schools, and love our students. If we don’t…why are we teachers?
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If you google search anything about trauma and education, inevitably you will receive pages and pages about how to treat student trauma and how to provide support for the students experiencing trauma, but what about the teachers? Who is supporting us?
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Another way to foster a collaborative classroom is to have your lessons be rooted in meaning. People are simply motivated to persist and achieve when they find value and meaning in what they do. One way to ensure meaning in your lessons is to give students a few choices.
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So, lately I’ve been doing an overhaul of my wardrobe. As someone who loves clothes and style, I am now on a mission to curate a timeless wardrobe of quality pieces. I have learned through this redesign of my closet that not all materials are equal. Fast fashion will often use cheap materials that are not good for the environment and do not last past one season.
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We have said it before and we will say it again: good teaching does not involve rewards. Rewarding good behavior and punishing negative behaviors is not an effective way to get a class of students invested in learning. What does work? Building relationships.
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Our SEL lessons focus on the five SEL strategies: relationship skills, responsible decision making, self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness.
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The ten proven ingredients in this Lyma supplements are turmeric, vitamin D and K, smart nootropic, prebiotic beta gluons, protein, ashwaganda, lycopene, saffron, and keratin. These ingredients work together to promote better sleep, performance, beauty, health, and lessen anxiety.
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The beauty industry is one of the least regulated industries in America. I know, shocker. It is completely legal for companies to use knowingly harmful chemicals or chemicals that have never been evaluated for their safety. So, needless to say, I am all about clean beauty. I only use clean products in my skin care and makeup that are made of clean ingredients and are environmentally conscious. It has been a five year journey for me to learn more about what ingredients are used and what products work as well or even better than the harmful ones I had been using in the past. Here are some BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) clean beauty brands that I use on the regular. I hope that you like them, too!
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