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Move over Twitter, there are some new kids on the teacher DIY PD block.
What new digital tools are today's teachers looking to? Resident edtech expert Emily Gover shares her insight on our blog — featuring great tools like @slackhq + @voxer.
What tools are you using to improve your PD and pedagogy? Share in the comments below!
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Making Your Own Self-Care Kit
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By: Taylor B.
First of all, good job! You’re thinking about making a self care kit and that’s a great first step. Self care is a vital part of being an activist, caring for others, dealing with trauma, or just generally being a well-rounded and happy person. Self-care can prevent burn out, help cope with a traumatic event, and really makes you more of a radical badass. Even if you aren’t experiencing a lot of stress at the moment, establishing good self-care habits now can help you deal with stress in the future.
So what is a self-care kit? A self-care kit is a tool that helps you maintain good self care. This can mean it’s a literal kit with things like bath salts and candles that help to ground you, a note on your phone of good activities, or even a mental list of things that make you feel good. Personally, I like a mix of all three. Creating a kit makes self-care easy and personalized to what you need.
Ready to make your own? Let’s get started!
What are your goals? Are you trying to reduce stress in your life or maintain your current level? Are you trying to decrease anxiety or panic attacks? Are you looking for something to help ground you when you are triggered? Think about what happens when you don’t maintain good self care and then think about the positive opposite of that.
Example: When I don’t take care of myself I tend toward isolation. A good self care goal for me is feeling engaged with the world.
What are your resources? Resources include time, money, and access to things/locations. Do you have a hour/day for self-care or 5 minutes? Do you have $10 to spend or none? Do you have a gym or park nearby? Be realistic. Your kit needs to be sustainable.
Example: I’m usually pretty broke and pretty busy. A good self-care resource for me is to make sure I spend a few minutes cuddling my cat before I get out of bed in the morning.
What are your responsibilities? Self-care is about finding balance and making sure you are at your best when you do other things. It’s important to choose self care activities that are nurturing and encouraging of the rest of your life. This doesn’t mean that every activity has to be actively healthy–glasses of wine, pints of ice cream, cigarettes, etc. can all have their place–but it means keeping a balance in mind. Self-care shouldn’t feel bad later.
Example: I get up really early for work. I love staying up late watching tv, but it makes me groggy and grumpy the next day. As a balance, I watch a short episode of my favorite show before bed but make sure to stop at just one.
What makes you happy? Think about what makes you smile. Think about what makes you feel good. Now, figure out how to incorporate that into your kit. Are you happiest when you’re drawing? Get some nice pens and paper! Do you like running? Keep your running clothes and shoes handy. Do you feel better when you’re well hydrated? Set a reminder alarm on your phone!
Example: I love epsom salt baths so I have epsom salt on hand all the time.
Ideas to get you started: Now that you know what to think about when putting together your self-care kit, here are some ideas of what to actually do and use!
Items
Waterbottle
Vitamins
Meds (maybe set a reminder on your phone!)
Foods that make you feel good
Stuffed animal
Essential oils
Music/white noise
Photo album
Epsom salt
Tea
Kid books/tv shows/movies
Cozy blankets
List things you like about yourself
Compliments and nice notes from others
Awards/achievements you’ve won
Activities
Anything that makes you sweat
Yoga
Meet with a therapist
Laugh!
Orgasms (definitely a personal decision but orgasming can have a lot of benefits)
Spend time with a furbaby
Make some comfort food
Follow artists who inspire you
Spend time outside
Read about amazing people
Think about what would be your best day ever
Take photos of things you like
Set a regular coffee date with a friend
Volunteer with animals
Do something nice for a coworker
Get to know your neighbor
Host a dinner party
Record happy moments throughout the day
For further reading, try the follow resources:
University of Buffalo School of Social Work Self-Care Starter Kit
Becoming Who You Are: How to Create a Self-Care Kit
Your Mental Health First-Aid Kit
28 Easy Self-Care Practices Anyone Can Do
18 Apps for Anxiety
When I’m teaching a lesson and students clearly aren’t listening
The Guide to Pinterest for Educators
Over 500,000 education pins are saved to Pinterest every day. Learn how to use this platform to inform your teaching and professional development.
Introducing USC Rossier’s Guide to Pinterest for Educators — a toolkit for today's digitally-literate classrooms.
What does your classroom look like? What does your ideal classroom look like? What barriers (physical, financial, administrative) are inhibiting you from having a classroom that meets the needs of all learners?
We want to know. We want to help.
Join our #InclusiveSpaces campaign.
Here’s how:
Reblog us and tell us more
Write your own story
Share your classroom on social with the hashtag #InclusiveSpaces
Email your links to [email protected]
#InclusiveSpaces is a grassroots campaign through USC Rossier School of Education’s online teacher degree, aiming to bridge the gap between research and practice in classroom design.
1 in 10 U.S. schools teach children to code and less than 1 percent of girls think computer science is part of their future. Why?
Kids and Computer Science, DataScience@SMU
There is a gap between what studies say is a successful classroom and what teachers are actually able to do within their walls.
Show how your classroom meets the needs of your students — or, tell us what you'd like to change about your space to make it more inclusive.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Students who are exposed to more daylight in the classroom score 26% higher on math and reading tests than those with less exposure to light.
The Science of Classroom Design
The Science of Classroom Design
Students spend an average of 12,000 hours in the classroom throughout their lifetime. Those hours have a significant impact on their learning and behavior — studies say so.
We created a data visualization to show you how.
Brought to you by USC Rossier's Masters of Arts (MAT) Online Teaching Degree
Made possible by TeachThought and USC Rossier's online Master of Arts in Teaching degree
New graduate student? Starting your first online course? This checklist has everything you need to know.
We’ve built out 21 Pinterest boards to help inform your lesson plans.
Teaching with Twitter
Use Twitter in the classroom to strengthen student’s social media literacy skills and inform your own professional development. [View]
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7 Things All New Teachers Need to Know
You’ve set up your classroom, updated your LinkedIn and told all your friends. Now what?
What is – and isn't – classroom inclusion, and how can we make it work for students with severe/multiple special needs?
Special education teachers, take note:
Kait Hager, veteran special education teacher, shares with students in our online teaching degree how to design an effective inclusion classroom environment.
