#edumucation

[charmzero]

EDUMUCATION aka college but make it a shonen anime opening! a solo animated project i worked on the past few months

made in procreate dreams

song is life is a bitch! by takayan

[girlscrushes]

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. This is my blog’s actual analytics. Please, please, please turn off the “top posts first” feature on your Dashboard. As a content creator with a relatively small following, I, along with many others, are fading into more obscurity. 

While I don’t make edits solely for notes, this is heartbreaking and to be honest, a little discouraging. It’s difficult for me to justify spending time making edits if no one’s seeing them. Keep in mind that many of us work and/or study full-time and use Tumblr as a creative outlet. Please respect the time and effort that’s put into making edits by giving us a chance. 

[girlscrushes]

okay, serious talk -

the mother/daugher dynamic that pushed the unsub over the edge is unfortunately the reality for a lot of young girls 

or at least a version of it is experienced by many

to all parents out there, please be mindful of the power of your words and actions

and to everyone else, remember to be kind to one another 💕 

[girlscrushes]

my relationship with anxiety

I know that it’s the end of term for a lot of people and many are studying for exams right now so I thought I’d share something about anxiety, specifically test anxiety. {sorry, long post ahead, but this is important}

Exactly a year ago, all I wanted was to give up and not study. I really didn't want to take my finals thinking that I was gonna fail them anyway. In fact, all I wanted was to fly home and just take an Incomplete for the semester. 

Luckily, I had my mom and friends who stood by me, making sure that I was at least putting in some effort to study. It was not easy. Every page that I read, there was an accompanying thought that I didn't know what I was doing. For every PowerPoint that I got through, I would have a breakdown, crying that I didn't understand a single thing that I just went over. 

Almost every hour, I would ask my best friend to just walk around the library or student center. Or to go get food. Basically, anything but looking at my notes and my textbooks. 

My friends would tell me that doubt was just screwing with my head. They’d remind me that I knew more than I thought. I tried to believe them. I really did. But the voice of anxiety is hard to deny. 

After all, this is what it does... Anxiety talks to you and talks to you and talks to you... until you hear nothing and feel nothing but doubt and fear. 

It’s going to trick your brain; telling you that you're not good enough, not smart enough, and that you don't belong in that school/program.

Though it was so hard to believe it at the time, I'm so glad that I had people around me that made sure I was studying (as best as I could in the state that I was in) and that I took my finals. In the end, not only did I pass my classes, I finished the term with a decent GPA. 

Turns out, I had developed a real and diagnosable condition. What had been in my life in pieces and small bursts for the past 20 years, became full fledge generalized anxiety disorder. 

It’s been several months and there’s a lot more to my story, but I just wanted to share this part of it as a reminder that...

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

So try not to listen to the doubt that's talking and go #slay those finals 💕 

But if you really need someone to talk to, I encourage you to reach out to a professional/visit the counseling center at your university. Finals are undoubtedly a stressful time, but it’s possible that you may be dealing with something greater that may need real medical attention. Mental health is a true, real part of your overall well-being and should be treated as such.

And as always, my ask is always open if you need someone to talk to 😊 

[bat-in-the-machine]

Okay so I was scrolling through YouTube and I saw this thing about people mispronouncing Asian (specifically Chinese) names...

And I was like "okay hang on lemme just..." *rewind, pause*

[sendthetweet]

Do you need this here beginner fishing kit?

I don’t know how to fis

Well you can learn with this here *smacks* beginner fisher kit

[cait-teaches]

Week 6

This week we were off from school for an end of semester break, so I will just talk about the prompt. From day one I was concerned on how to build a positive and effective relationship with the parents. The second or third week I was at this school was parents conferences so I got to meet many parents and observe how discussing student progress and future goals will be met. Since I work with students with exceptionalities most of my students’ parents are very active about their child’s education. I have one parents who will email us immediately if anything lower than a ‘B’ is put into his child’s grade book. We try to explain and discuss the grading procedures and how we grade the assignment to this parent. Once we explain how and what we are grading the parent is much more understanding and asks how he can help the child at home. 

Another parent we have comes down on us all the time. At the beginning of the year she accused my PPP of not following the IEP of her child. My teacher however is a veteran teacher and she keeps all her paperwork and documents when she gives the students accommodations, so she was able to debunk that accusation. When they confronted the parent about her false accusations, she changed her story and said it was a different teacher. Now she has come back and said her child is being bullied, and accusing students of harassing her child. Some of which were and we have disciplined them, but others we have on camera that these situations are not happening as the family claims they do. Recently we began offering her child chaperoning to classes and making sure a teacher knows where she is all the time. This seemed to work for a week. Now we have the parents back in the office saying her child is feeling victimized by this treatment. We are out of viable options at this point and it seems no matter what we do it is enough or correct. This seems to me to be a negative situation and I want to make sure all my student’s are safe and I understand the frustration for the parents, but they are accusing students of bullying when we have no evidence that this is happening. 

Talking to parents is a crucial part of teaching, who better to help you understand a child than the person they spend the other half of their time with! It can be complicated and I hope that I can encourage a good relationship with parents early on. I think that means having them understand classroom rules, procedures, grading, consequences. School can be foriegn to some parents and part of my job is to make sure parents feel that their child is in the best place for them.

[thinkoutsidetheboxsanderson]

I think shes flirting with me lol. #mhlibrary #medicinehat #arts #heritage #medhat #library #edumucation #edjamacational (at Medicine Hat Public Library)