Though I must make things clear. Today didn’t go perfectly.
But somehow, I’m in a ridiculously good mood. Trying to unpack the reason(s) why as I pen my thoughts down.
I only had two hours of free time (including my lunch hour) today. After school, I couldn’t focus on my work either because I had to supervise my dancers for their upcoming performance. (In case you are wondering, nope I don’t teach them dance. I just provide them with moral and emotional support as their coaches push them to deliver their best haha.)
I started out by writing a heartfelt thank you note to the four educators who observed my lesson last Wednesday. They delivered positive feedback and constructive criticism in spades, so it was nice to start the day with something life-affirming.
I then took the time to display my students’ work on a whiteboard located along the corridor:
During a lesson, I got my literacy coaching student to make two YouTube shorts so as to facilitate his acquisition of said and little.
During the Dance Club session, I wrote an email to the literacy support team and suggested that we needed to enforce that our weakest progress students learn the irregular past tense verbs on the Dolch list. All 33 of them:
Time flew by in a flash and during the last 15-30 minutes, I was rushing to churn out an email to invite the entire school staff to observe my lesson this Friday.
As I left home, I asked the Saloon whether they know the difference between -ful and -ous. I got an answer right away!
Now I’m home earlier than usual and speedwriting this post. My wife is working overtime today, but because I have some buffer, I think I can change shower feed two kids all by myself. I’m a superhuman parent.
Thank you for enduring my verbal diarrhoea. I think I can determine the elements that contribute towards a satisfying work day for me:
- fun & creativity (getting my student to do the YouTube shorts)
- doing something unorthodox & high-impact (inviting the staff to observe my classroom makes a powerful statement!)
- speaking my truth (about how the weakest progress students should be forced to learn 33 irregular past tense verbs)
- learning a cool fact about affixes (thanks to carlosfandango!)
- having time to write something personal for SN
- not feeling rushed about parenting
Seems like I have distilled the elements of a successful work day for myself. How about you?
Well, the whole design of costs and rewards that @k00b has built is very smart.
Having said that, I would point out specially:
Very creative FOSSING quip! Kudos @k00b
I consider myself very cynical, but someone once told me that "cynicism is for the weak," and it really made me have to think.
Perhaps what we should strive for is optimistic realism.
I made a Twitter bot to attract followers back in 2015 to replace the semi automated process I began in 2013.
Ron has been my guru since the day he demanded all the bacon and eggs.
Day 347 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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your average computer user can't even figure out ad blockers, let alone setting up an airgapped pc as a wallet.
🧡🧡🧡 👏👏👏 Murch thank you for all your work as well!
Illustrating a principle with a concrete act, e.g., if you want to see more posts that surface old content and add value to it, provide commentary that synthesizes things, etc., then you should create those things yourself and model it for others.