{"id":52,"date":"2017-11-23T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/?p=52"},"modified":"2017-11-23T01:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:57:07","slug":"one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/2017\/11\/23\/one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"One of them…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. Saturday was a lot! (Anyone else?). I was the one in the hallway, the one almost brought to tears by the overwhelming feeling of not understanding… as a grown adult. It\u2019s been awhile since I felt that way in the \u201cclassroom\u201d. Anxious, nervous, overwhelmed, a little scared (and excited of course!), but it all just felt like a lot. Is this how my students really feel when I give them too much information at once? Just like the entire Cohort 21 family, I am positive and encouraging when I share new information, reassuring them that I will help them understand. But I am just one piece in the jigsaw they call school. How many times a day does this happen? <\/span><\/p>\n

This was one of those special \u201cah ha!\u201d moments for me. Yes, those feelings sucked, but what if that\u2019s how I felt day after day. As an educator, I was able to persevere through, to attack the challenge put in front of me. I was able to take control of my emotions and do what I needed to do to help myself through this overwhelming feeling. RUN. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Very literally, run. Not\u00a0<\/span>away from the problem but I went for a 10k run, my favourite way to think. I know this is an important thing for me to do in order to keep balance in my life but do my students know themselves this way? What to do when they are overwhelmed? We talk about how to de-stress but do we show them how to put this into practice? Can I help them find this? And just like that\u2026. I have a key goal in my action plan: practicing mindfulness and discovering ways in which they can love learning again, rather than have this overwhelming feeling in their gut. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was a student. A student like we picture when we think of our biggest challenge in the classroom. We know our challenge but do we know theirs? Being one of them for the day was really a great thing. We should probably try it more.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yes\u2026 I ask more questions than your students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. Saturday was a lot! (Anyone else?). I was the one in the hallway, the one almost brought to tears by the overwhelming feeling of not understanding… as a grown adult. It\u2019s been awhile since I felt that way in the \u201cclassroom\u201d. Anxious, nervous, overwhelmed, a little scared (and excited of course!), but it all … Continue reading “One of them…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrealeacock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}