Blog Post # 16

Project # 13

Project # 14 Lesson Plan

This is our Project # 14 Lesson Plan Week # 2 Group Participants: Caroline Cannon Paige Odom Heather Trawick

Project 12: Part B

Project 12 Part B
Smartboard Lesson

Blog Post #13 What Did I Leave Out?

Blog Post #13

As a future educator, what technology would you like to incorporate in your classrooms and how would you use it? List a minimum of 3 pieces of technology that you would like to use. Include a brief description for each and a description of how you will incorporate these into your lessons.(YOU MAY CHOOSE ANY ELEMENTARY EDUCATION GRADE LEVEL K-6.) 

*Be specific, as you will be teaching a lesson using one of your technologies as a future EDM 310 Project* 

This blog post is to be done individually. 

Here are some websites listed below to assist you in your planning:

12 Ways to Use Technology in Your Classroom 

Education World: Integrating Technology 

Elementary and Middle School Resources 


Upon completion:

• Post to your blog. 
• Post link in Sakai under assignments. 

Completed Version of Assignment

Blog Post #13

Grade Level: 4th Grade 

As a future educator, I plan to incorporate a good amount of technology into my lessons on a daily basis. I think that technology heightens a students learning capabilities, it allows for teachers to teach more effectively, and it makes the information being taught more relevant to the students.

 Four ways that I would like to integrate technology into my lessons includes: 

1. Smart-board: I have recently learned how to work a smart-board, and find this piece of technology to be very useful. I would like to use this piece of technology on a daily basis as a way for me to teach math lessons. As we all know, math is a very sore subject for many students, including myself. A-lot of the problem, in my opinion, is that the students are not getting enough interactive learning during math lessons. That is why I would love to teach my math lesson on a smart-board. This will give students much more opportunity to learn interactively rather than just watching the instructor do problems on the board. I would like students to be able to come up to the smart-board and do parts of the problem themselves. 
2. Ipad/Computer: Since Apple has released the I-pad, they seem to be getting more and more popular within schools. This probably has to do with how much they have to offer in the world of learning. Their are so many educational applications that can be of assistance to students on this device. One particular way that I would like to use the I-pad in my classroom would be to use the Weather Channel App on a daily basis. I would have my students come in and have a seat at their desks with their I-pads/computers (given that the school has this technology.) The students will then be given 5-7 minutes to search the city of their choosing and briefly share with the class about their weather. 
3. Blogging Websites: I have never blogged until EDM 310. I never really knew much about it either. Since I have started blogging I have become more and more interested in it as well as integrating it into the classroom. I would like to have my students blog at-least once, maybe twice a week. I would provide my students with a list of things that we had learned for the week, and it would be their jobs to write blog about the lessons and to describe some of the things that they learned. 
4. Skype: I have used Skype occasionally and found it to be very resourceful. I would like to use this particular tool in order to connect my students to other students in other parts of the United States, as well as global. I would also like to connect my students with other teachers as well...Example: My lesson is on Plants and the ecosystem; I might contact a botanist and have them do a Skype call with my classroom before or after the lesson. This would give students the chance to hear the information from someone different, which might make more of an impact.  

I think that all of these forms of technology would be very useful if use correctly within the classroom. Integrating technology into our schools is vital to the success of our children. Without the use of technology, we are handicapping our students. In a world that is so driven by technology, it only makes sense to use it to better the educations of our future. 

Project # 12 A

Blog Post #12

Project #8 Book Trailer

Cat in the Hat Book Trailer

Project # 10

Interview with Jeremy Stanford 

Blog Post #11

Blog Post #11 

What Can We Learn About Teaching and Learning From These Teachers? 

After reading through all of the information presented, and watching the videos that these educational professionals provided, I noticed one thing that they all had in common about teaching. The common factor is technology. Technology is a prominent tool used in every one of the classrooms that were presented in the videos and blog. All of the teachers that spoke on these videos also agreed that technology is a very important and helpful tool to use in the classroom. 

What We Can Learn About Teaching and Learning: 

Back to the Future 

In this video, Brain Crosby talks about his students, his classroom, and mostly about the activities that his class participates in and how he teaches his students about various subjects. Crosby's classes consists of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders who are predominantly second language learners. The majority of his classes are also considered to be at risk due to poverty as well. Here is some important information we can gather from Mr. Crosby about the classroom and use of technology. 

• Technology allows for students to think outside the box. 
• Children can create their own learning networks with technology in classrooms. 
• Narrowed curriculum can cause disconnect in learning. 
• Students need creativity and imagination. 
• Students need to set goals for themselves, their community, and the world. 
• It can be helpful for students to hear about information relevant to a lesson from other knowledgeable people familiar with the subject outside of the classroom. (Guest Speaker) 
• Have all of your students play equal roles in learning and participating. 

Blended Learning Cycle: Paul Anderson 

• Try something new in the classroom. 
• Use blended learning: -Engage-Explore-Explain-Expand
• Try different blended learning techniques/cycles. 
• Help your students to elaborate; be able to go through the textbook themselves to gather information. 
• Have students show you what they have learned. 
• Have your students test their own knowledge first-hand. 

Project Based Learning

This was my favorite video that I watched. I love the concept of PBL and this video really showed how effective and motivating it really can be. Their are so many things to learn about PBL, but this video in particular can teach us: 

• Technology and PBL enhance learning significantly. 
• Students use technology as a tool to bring content to life. 
• PBL helps teachers to provide quality feedback for students. 
• PBL can be reached by combining teachers, students, and subjects. 
• Technology allows students to reflect more own their own work. 
• Us educators should teach beyond the curriculum. 

Roosevelt Elementary PBL 

This was also one of my favorite videos, once again because of the idea presented about PBL. If I were to try and explain PBL to someone, this video would make a great start. Some of the things one might learn from this video includes: 

• What is project based learning? 

-In depth learning 

-Integrated thematic instruction 

-Research based 

-Project and presentation 

• Benefits of PBL 

-Incorporates real-world problem solving 

-Requires public speaking and takes the fear away at a young age. 

-Provides different ways of learning.

-Gives students a sense of power. 

-Makes students more independent 

-Students learn how to work more independently 

-Students learn how to work cooperatively 

-Problem solving skills 

-Provides support to each other 

-Teaches students better social skills 

-Incorporates many different and new intelligence

-different subjects integrated 

-builds vast background knowledge 

-ignites love to learn 

-self motivates 

-provides students with control of their own learning 

-interactive learning approach 

-gives students more chance to self reflect

-allows students to answer questions that they have about their world 

-allows students to develop new questions about their world 

Teaching Channel: Sam Payne 5th Grade 

• Teach your students about the power of the internet 
• Inform your students about internet safety and who is in charge of their safety when on the internet. 
• Teach your students to be responsible and respectful when using the internet. 
• Make information relevant to your students. 
• Incorporate technology into core subjects such as English like Mr. Payne did with his students and the superhero/narrative assignment.  

Each and every bit of information conveyed by these teachers throughout these videos is very important to consider when teaching. We must remember that technology makes things more relevant for today's students. I hope to one day use many of these same methods in teaching my class. 

Blog Post #10

Blog Post #10
Interview With Ms. Cassidy: What can we learn?

Ms. Cassidy's interview with Dr. Strange was very informative. It made all of the information that we are learning in EDM 310 relevant to the classroom. Sometimes I struggle with relating the information to an elementary school classroom, but Ms. Cassidy demonstrated so many ways for technology to be used within the classroom. She even showed a movie where her students are participating in various technological activities. I was amazed at how knowledgeable her students were about blogging, using Wikis, and also how enthused they were about learning via technology.

I really liked how Ms. Cassidy's students had blogs. I have never blogged until EDM 310, and I am a junior in college. To see her elementary school students doing weekly blogs, absolutely amazed me. It almost made me feel ashamed for not being informed about it earlier. I would love to integrate as much of the technology that Ms. Cassidy had in her classroom, to mine one day. I would like to use the blogging idea, the Wiki, Skyping with other professionals/teachers and students with the class, and many more techniques that she used. Those were just my favorites.

Although I am very excited about technology in the classroom, I realize that there will be problems to encounter. Some of the issues that could arise include...I would fix them....

• Issues dealing with technology working properly: Have routine maintenance performed on equipment
• Students that are not interested in learning the material via technology: Make it relevant so that they will want to learn
• Myself not knowing how to properly work technology: Seek out professional development and/or classes/training.
• Safety issues dealing with students and the internet: Teach the students about the internet and its dangers. Teach them how to avoid dangerous situations along with blocking inappropriate websites.

Benefits to using technology in the classroom:

• Make information more relevant to the students.
• Helps students to develop relationships.
• Provides parents with a way to keep up with their child's progress and work.
• No handicapping your students.
• Motivates the students.
• Helps them to learn better.
• They are more aware of technology in the real world.

Blog Post # 9

What Can Teachers and Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning? 

 

For starters, teachers can give you a broad analysis of Project Based Learning. I have done ample amount of research and found out that most teachers, before going into a lot of detail, give a general basis of Project Based Learning, which is helpful, seeing as though many people, including some educators, are not knowledgeable about the topic. Within this broad overview, teachers are able to provide us with information concerning activities dealing with PBL, how these activities benefit the students, how to incorporate PBL into the curriculum, and how to maximize the effectiveness we get with the use of Project Based Learning within the classroom. While teachers are very helpful when learning about Project Based Learning, the students can be just as, or even more helpful.

The students are a necessity when it comes to learning about PBL because they are our source of feedback. Without observation of the students doing Project Based learning hands on, we cannot gain any feedback, nor can we reflect on the activities. The students are very helpful in providing constructive feedback so that we as teachers, can tweak the activities to provide maximum benefit to the students. 

Now to the main question: What Can Teachers and Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning ? So far, after doing my own research, along with viewing some of the provided information and video's, I have learned about: 

• What PBL is. 
• How to use PBL in the classroom with maximum benefit to students. 
• 7 Essentials for Project Based Learning 
• How to integrate subjects with PBL
• Creating a Driving Question 
• How to integrate technology into PBL
• PBL motivating students 
• Various PBL activities for multiple ages 
• Systematic teaching method
• PBL relates to real world problems and better prepares students
• Methods of using PBL 
• what roles teachers play in PBL 
• what role the students play PBL 
• how effective PBL is 

Project 7 iMovies

Student Video 


Parent Video My Sentence Is My Passion Is

Blog Post # 8

Randy Pausch: Last Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
by: Caroline Cannon

To be perfectly honest, when I first clicked on this link and noticed the video length of Randy Pausch's last lecture, I was apprehensive about watching such a long video. All that I can say after watching it, is boy was I wrong. This hour and fifteen minute video taught me more about not only teaching and learning, but about life than I have gathered in a long time. It was very direct, heart felt, and sincere. I wish I had known about Randy Pausch before his last lecture, and on different terms..than his last lecture. The assignment requires us to talk about what we can learn from Randy about teaching and learning. At first this seemed a bit abstract because Randy talked more about life experiences rather than directly about teaching and learning. I began relating the lessons that he was presenting with teaching and learning and quickly realized that they're perfectly relatable to education. So, here is a list of things that I learned from Randy Paush's Last Lecture:

• For starters, Randy speaks about playing the cards you are dealt. In future endeavors, such as teaching or life in general, we will be dealt our cards...it is not about which cards you are dealt, but how you play the hand you are dealt.
• Never lose site of childhood dreams. Seeing as though I would like to teach elementary education, I think that this piece of advice is very useful. Children of the elementary age have a lot of dreams. Instead of putting them down, we must remember to encourage their childhood dreams, and also not lose site of our own.
• Always have something to bring to the table. When we go for job interviews, or meeting, we want to have something to bring to the table. It makes us more marketable.

This next bit of advice was probably my favorite:

• When you do something (wrong) and critics stop correcting you, or people do not continue to tell you when you've messed up, then they have given up on you. We must learn to value critiques. In most cases, they are coming from fans that really want to help us to do better. In education, I am sure we will have many critiques from parents, students, administrators, and co-workers. We have to learn to value critics and let them help to improve our work.
• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want. This is especially good advice for myself. I am a perfectionist and when something doesn't go the correct way, I often look at is as being negative. According to Randy, which I also agree  with...we must learn to reflect on our mistakes and gain experience. Turn the negative into positive.
• Be a role-model.
• Brick walls are their to stop people who do not want it badly enough.
• As a teacher, we can and will have the power to enable childhood dreams. Do it.
• Set high standards for your students. They will continue to move up and up.
• Give students the chance to showcase their work if opportunity strikes.
• Make learning fun.
• Learn from your students.
• never lose your childlike wonder.
• Help others.

And most importantly...let your child paint their bedroom, be Tigger, and HAVE FUN!
I encourage anyone reading this, if you haven't already, to go and watch Randy's Last Lecture. I hope that you will find it to be just as inspiring and informational as I have.

Blog # 6

After watching the video conversations of Anthony Capps, I learned that:

                                      

Project Based Learning Part 1

• A good project for PBL's has an authentic audience, is relevant, and motivates the students to do well and achieve highly. 
• The BEST projects for PBL's involve the community some how, which allows for the students to see that what they are doing is related to the real-world. 
• Use content that is relevant to the grade/children you are teaching as well as content that will drive your student to learn. 
• Choose content that you can tie in with content standards. 
• Use peer evaluation as a means of grading. 

Project Based Learning Part 2 

• Know that every project might not go well. 
• Make sure the content that you use in projects is a safe subject for all children and parents in your classroom. 
• With PBL, never limit your students as to how much/how far they should go. They will always go above and beyond. 
• PBL's are not always successful in the way that they go correctly, but in the way that the students learn. 
• Help to show your children that all work that you present in your class is meaningful. 

iCurio

• iCurio is a curated online search engine for students to search safely. It is already filtered and set up for students to use themselves just like a search engine. 
• It has a storage capacity for students and teachers to store content that they find. 
• It helps for teachers to present and teach virtual organization. 
• It has kid friendly buttons. 
• It is great for student use. 
• It allows students to create folders and drop different items into it.

Discovery Education

• Discovery is an awesome resource for students and teachers.
• It has pictures and videos of different Science and Social Studies topics, which teach them about various topics. 
• It helps to bring text to life. 
• It is a great research tool for students to learn about different topics. 

The Anthony 

• You have to be a learner to be an effective educator. 
• In teaching, work is not separate from play. 
• Teachers learn during their free-time. 
• Teaching is hard work, it is fun, it is rewarding. 
• Be flexible. 
• Set goals, but be flexible with them. 
• Flexibility is key. 
• Set a goal to have 100% engagement. (It's critical) 
• Make sure no children are left behind by motivating the students to learn. 
• Reflect. 

Use Tech Don't Teach It 

• Try to incorporate technology into the classroom. 
• Technology should not be part of the curriculum. 
• Instead, give assignments dealing with the technology. 
• Once school begins, start incorporating more and more technology into their learning, but only introduce one at a time. 
• Do not expect perfection. 
• Reflect on mistakes with using the new technology. 
• Give your students that chance to reflect on using the  technology as well so that they can correct mistakes that they made and master the content. 
• Ask important questions.

Additional Thoughts About Lessons 

• Create a lesson based on if it will fit in with your year. 
• Break your unit up into weeks that it will fit. 
• Create a daily lesson plan. 

Meaningful Blog Post # 2:3

 For starters I would like to say that I am in no way affiliated with Otis Kriegel, and/or his blog.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-teachers-energy-time-tears-otis-kriegel

 

I LOVE this blog. In this blog, Otis talks about teaching and how his experiences have led him to share the “7 Tips to Save Energy, Time, and Tears.” Below are the seven tips that he shared:

1.       Don’t Walk In Front of the Line

2.       Keep a Spare Set of Clothes

3.       Share Good News With Your Principal

4.       Create Multiple Ways for Your Parents to Keep Involved

5.       Change Your Bulletin Board more efficiently

6.       Write a daily schedule

7.       Create several methods of communication for parents

These are all great tips for elementary school teachers. I find it very meaningful, because I can utilize each of these tips in my future career. I have taken these tips and changed the way that I will teach and be prepared.

1.       I will NOT walk in front of the line. I will walk WITH the line so that I can observe what it happening at the back and front of the line.

2.       I will keep myself a spare set of clothing so that when I get throw up on, peed on, juice boxed in the face…etc, I will have a change of clothes.

3.       I will inform my principal of good news going on in my classroom at-least once a week, so that in the midst of all of the bad commotion, they will see that there IS hope.

4.       I will have ways for parents to be more involved by encouraging them to come in during the mornings to help their child get settled and get used to myself.

5.       I will change my bulletin board once every…two (maybe 3 J) months.

6.       I will make it easy for parents to contact me…via email, telephone, post its, notes, etc.

7.       I will create a daily schedule so that I know what is going on at all times and have my students on a daily routine.

Meaningful Blog Post # 2:2

For starters I would like to say that I am in no way affiliated with Stephanie and/or her blog.

http://fallingintofirst.blogspot.com/2013/07/first-year-teacher-tips.html

 

I really fell in love with this blog because it is so relatable. In this blog, Stephanie (the author of the blog) talks about being a first year teacher. She discusses the stress, the excitement, the do’s, the don’t, the should haves, should not’s, etc. I really enjoyed this and found it to be very informative, because classes can only prepare you so much. We (future educators) do not know how the classroom will be (especially the VERY first day) until we hear about it or see it firsthand. This is where Stephanie’s blog post comes in. It is so helpful to kind of give you some pointers and real-life experience as to what it will be like. Stephanie has been teaching for five years, so it has not been very long since she was in the same position we will soon be in, (hopefully!) Now, I am going to give a brief overview of some of the things that she talks about, and the advice she gives.

1.       Celebrate Often

2.       Learn the Management Mambo

3.       Write Down Routines for EVERYTHING

4.       Get a Lunchbox

5.       Learn the Standards

6.       Organize Papers/Documents

7.       Do not vent on social media

8.       Have a strategy for your room layout

9.       Do not fill your plate up too much

10.   Keep a swag-stash (Tylenol, phone, keys, chocolate, extra clothes, deodorant, etc.)

11.   Keep Lesson Plans

12.   List goals in realistic time frames (You CANNOT do them all at once)

13.   Make plans that do not involve school work (Have fun and take a break)

14.   Make changes and try new things

15.   Take Vitamin C, use Lysol, and get plenty of rest (classrooms are FILTHY)

16.   Do not cover your whole entire classroom wall with décor..wait and save some space for other things.

17.   Make friends with the Secretary and Janitor (they can be very helpful)

18.   Be thrifty

19.   Keep Swimming

20.   Find a support system

After reading through all of these, along with the descriptions, first-year teaching made a whole lot more sense to me and seemed a tad bit less scary. Although it is going to be tough, it will be accompanied by laughter, success, new friends, changes (good and bad,) and celebrations. This post changed my way of thinking. I will not go into a school being terrified, but go in being excited to start a new chapter and learn many new things. I will “Just Keep Swimming.”

Meaningful Blog Post # 2:1

For starters I would like to state that I am in no way affiliated with Tara West and/or her blog, "Little Minds at Work."

http://littlemindsatwork.blogspot.com/

I really enjoyed reading this blog post, along with so many other posts from this author, Tara West. She is very insightful and shares a lot of personal experience in the classroom as well as tips, which brings me to this blog post. In this post, Tara discussed reading in the classroom, specifically K-1st. As we all know, children love to read fiction...especially princesses, dragons, talking dogs...etc. But, we also have to encourage and introduce them to reading non-fiction, which is what Tara Wests' posts centers around. She shares her personal experience with introducing non-fiction reads to her students. The idea that she has come up with, is that non-fiction raises more questions in students than narrative/fiction would. After giving it some thought, I completely understand what she is saying. She also has ample supporting information, such as a documented conversation  between her and her students about a non-fiction. Although she does express the importance mainly of non-fiction in this particular post, she also states that narrative/fiction and non-fiction should have a fairly equal balance, which I also agree with. The next part of this post is wonderful. She introduces a completely new concept (to me at-least) which is combining narrative/fiction with non-fiction. This is a great way to not only show the students the difference, but to also get them interested in non-fiction.

As you can tell, I really enjoyed reading this post. It is very meaningful to me because it is something that I can use in the classroom. It has changed my future teaching habits because now I know how important non-fiction text is. I have also learned how to incorporate it into narrative/fiction text as well.

Personal Learning Networks

For starters, I looked up what a personal learning network is. From reading multiple posts and forums about personal learning networks, I was able to get a pretty clear definition as to what a personal learning network is. It is a global learning network where professionals can make connections and build relationships with other professionals from around the world. As I read about what a personal learning network was, another question was answered. Who might I connect with? These professionals may include teachers, professors, administrators, and/or experts. What do I discuss with the professionals? You might discuss events happening in your own life, to what is happening in your classroom, school, and/or job. You might also share your ideas and resources with other professionals that you connect with. The cool thing about PLN’S is that you can connect with whoever you want to whenever you want to. I think that the most useful way to connect on PLN’S is to connect with professionals that have similar careers as you, therefore you will probably utilize the information much more. When I first began reading about PLN’S, it seemed a bit overwhelming, but after finding some awesome posts on how to create a PLN, it seems to be more and more fascinating rather than scary.

Now that I have answered the initial question: “What is a PLN?” I can answer my question to myself.

Do I want to connect via PLN? After doing much research on the topic, I am fully onboard for PLN’S. These Personal Learning Networks just amazed me. I find it so fascinating that you can connect with people all over the world, about the same subject. This just seems like such a necessary tool to use in order to collaborate with peers and other professionals.

I think that this tool will be especially helpful to me, seeing as though I want to teach Special Education. The reason being, is because there are many, many teachers throughout schools, but there is only one special education teacher, one counselor, one principal, one vice principal, one speech teacher, etc. I think that PLN’S are especially helpful for professionals holding positions such as these. While these professionals might still be able to gather information and advice from other teachers, it would be much more helpful to collaborate with other professionals that do the same things as you and deal with the same problems on a daily basis. I would love to have that online support group, idea forum, sharing grounds readily available so that if I experience something in the “Special Education” world, I can have someone relatable to me through a PLN.

Not only will I be able to discuss issues dealing with my specific profession, I can also relate to other teachers as well. I can learn from other teachers sharing their ideas. This is especially neat because I will be learning from professionals with all different backgrounds from around the world. This will open doors for many new perspectives and shed light on what is going on in the world of Education around the world.

All in all, I think that PLN’S are an absolute necessity to anyone entering the field. It gives you as a professional, the chance to meet like-minded people who are passionate about teaching, and ultimately make you a better teacher and learner.

Meaningful Blog Post #1:2 Be You

First and foremost, I would like to state that I am in no way affiliated with Shelly Wright or her blog, and I do not in any way claim any of her work.

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I came across this article by Shelly Wright, a high school teacher who absolutely loved her job and was very passionate about it. In this article, Shelly discusses how much joy teaching brought to her before she lost her niche. She was happy in the classroom and enjoyed the chaos of the classroom. She than took another job where she was not in the classroom and eventually became an adjunct vice principal for a window of time. You would think that she would be so happy to have made such drastic career advancements, but instead, she explains how unhappy she was. She was basically out of her element. She longed to be back in the classroom and was very unhappy with the job she was performing and even thought about leaving education, something that she used to hold so dear to her. The overall message of this meaningful posts is that we as humans, students, teachers, adults...etc, need to do what we love and what makes us the happiest. There have been so many times in my life where I have gone against my wants and needs to do something that did not make myself happy, but others happy. This in turn made me resent it, and probably others as well. At the end of the post, Shelly makes a statement that really drove this article home for me. She says "Do what you love. Be you. The world will be better for it." 

We need to remember this on our future endeavors. This article has changed my thought process, because I see how someone who once loved something so much has grown to begrudge it. I will strive to do what makes me happy, and make the world better by doing what makes me happy. 

Meaningful Blog Post #1 I Promise Not to Overpromise!

First and foremost, I am in no way affiliated with Dr. Mimi's , and do not in any way claim any of her work.

 

 I came across a blog written by Dr. Mimi on (http://itsnotallflowersandsausages.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-year-i-promise-not-to-over-promise.html) , a public school teacher dealing with day to day stresses of her job. She explains that although she loves her job, she has to rant about it sometimes. She tells the cons of committing to too much, worrying too much, and the struggles of going to school while dealing with outside stresses such as having her first child. The reason that this blog is meaningful to me is because I deal with a lot of the same stress that she does and I tend to over commit. In her blog, Dr. Mimi vows to change her ways and try to do less of what she HAS to do and more of what she CAN do. After reading this blog post, it made me realize that a lot of what I do is not necessarily things that I HAVE to do, but merely things that I commit to because I cannot say no to people. So, after reading this I have made a list of things that I do now that are causing me stress, and could wait..and then I made a list of things that I will do differently to relieve stress:

Stress Causing:                                                               Stress Relieving: 

-Being a perfectionist                                                     -Taking a nap 

-Doing to many tasks in one day                                    -Reading a book 

-Over Scheduling Myself                                               -Watching a show 

-Trying to be there for too many people                        -Taking a bath 

-Taking care of others before myself                             -Not being completely 100% organized at                                                                                                 ALL times of the day

If you are stressed about school, job, becoming a teacher, etc..read this article! Dr. Mimi provides a great insight and perspective about stress and the workplace. It is worth the read. 

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