Stress

I've neglected my blog so I'm going to be posting a few tonight, but I guess this one goes well with the right now. I am currently sitting in the library for the lord knows how long I've been here. I have been working on a group research paper for my religion class and It's been a toughy. So to hit on the subject of stress is great now because I'm sure that I will be the cause of many of children's stress and I'm sure that I will be cursed for many a late night and early morning that my students will have to endure. How can I explain this as being a good thing well I hate to say it because I currently hate what I'm doing right now, but I'm that this will make me a better person and somewhere down the line will help me out, or give me some random bible tid-bit or just make for a great story. No matter what it is I still have to do it and perseverance is a big lesson to learn and hopefully my students will learn that most of all from my teaching.

Grief

I got some bad news the other day and I was just not really sure how to handle it? It really made we wonder and I guess that is what this is all about because it makes you think. I have not always handled things in a way that most do because I've been through my parents divorce and many things that are real downers I have become a heavy introvert and it has a nasty habit of become pretty self destructive. Now as I sit here wondering how I will deal with this I really wonder how the kids will handle things. Or even I will be able or qualified to really help them to deal with things. Kids are strange these days! Their emotions are high wired and they can really be moody so how can I keep up with these if I have a hard enough time with my own problems?

Compassion

How does compassion fit into education? How do we let our students know that we care about them and their futures in education? This is a big question because we all can think back to our schooling and remember both sides, that teacher that you always felt you could go to because you knew they would always listen, or that teacher that you would rather talk to a brick because it would show more compassion. Most of it all comes down to presentation. How we present ourselves to our students is key because someone who acts kind and shows themselves as a person who is open to listening and caring is going to have students feel better talking to them, in class and out. The opposite is the closed person who doesn't make themselves open to helping students or even to other faculty and it will be these people who come across as the uncompassionate people. So think on how you want yourself to come across and better yet think about which teachers you liked the best and remember how they made you feel and try and be like them.

This weeks question.

Hey guys
So as part of my class I want to kind of ask some questions from time to time in hopes to get some responses that will help me to get some info. So please vote up at the top on how many extra curriculars you participated in while you were in high school.