- You dodged a bullet
- Does Ess come from Ass?
- The vaccine has an effect for about 4-6 months, and it makes sense to get a new doze after this period. It may not be effective against Omicron, and we don’t know to what extend.
However, it is effective against the Delta variant, and this is what is infecting the population right here, right now! A new doze of vaccine will protect hundreds of thousands people, who otherwise will be seriously sick or dead.
Some of you are living in lalaland! 😐 Posted by Ixi
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I’m teaching sometimes 18-26 year olds, half of them foreign students, who did well in school and now are paying hefty fees to attend college. One would think they should be quite different from your NY children. Yes, but there are similarities. How they react to boredom or to peer pressure, for example.
One tip is to leave my ego outside the classroom. Imagine it’s their peers they need to impress, not me. I can be vulnerable, admit what I don’t know and that I make mistakes. Another tip is to avoid boredom, by challenging them. When I’m giving a lecture, there is little interaction with students, apart from eye contact. I love asking questions, pausing, created suspense, seeing the attention on their face, giving them answers that are not very obvious.
And then there are seminars with smaller groups of about 20 students. They had “homework”, 25-30 questions. I’m there to go through the answers, just like in school. I love stressing them out, by making everyone participate. I have their name on a list, but prefer to look directly into someone’s eyes. The students start by looking down, to avoid eye contact. Like in poker, I could feel them holding their breath. Eventually, they will raise their eyes to see what’s happening and bang….”it’s you!”.
If they don’t respond, I ask them speculate an answer, because I’m curious about their thought process. They usually look bewildered and probably regret not doing their homework. Because ignoring homework is cool in the eyes of their peers, while being unable to think it is not!
If a student doesn’t want to come to the whiteboard, I tempt them by reassuring them that they will get help, but it’s usually not me helping, but another student, one of those who always raises their hand. A bit of humility for the student who didn’t put in the work…
I start with groups largely unprepared and visibly bored. By the 3rd-4th seminar, none of them dares to come unprepared and all pay attention. It’s not because of me (I’m not marking their answers, and if I eventually mark exam papers, they are anonymous). It’s because they want to make an impression on their peers.
I appreciate the advice, but admittedly difficult personalities and classroom mgmt isn't really what I was looking for insight into, respectfully. I would be 1000% interested in learning about how you've managed your burnout whether that be from the classroom or life in general.
I must have missed the cause of your burnout, if you wrote it.
How do I manage my workload, so I don’t get burned out? By delegating or declining the “boring” tasks. I never offer to do anything, unless someone asks me personally. I don’t try to prove myself to others.
I initiate things, sometimes too many at the same time, but stop several experiments once I run out of steam and concentrate on those that showed the most promise. I also take shortcuts, to see where things are going, and if I like the outcome, come back and do everything a la carte, knowing that my efforts will not be in vain. I do the same while reading books.
I simplify things. Once I’ve got 60+ hand written essays to mark over a couple of days. I started to read a few, word by word, struggled to understand the writing, felt overwhelmed. Then I wrote some bullet points on a paper, with the most important ideas, conclusions and definitions I wanted to mark in these essays. Instead of reading them, I scanned the essays for these ideas, and only red some random sentences. It took me 5 min to mark an essay in this way, instead of 15 when I actually read it, but the final marks were quite similar! Including with the marks of the second marker. I rarely had to “negotiate” a mark with him/her.
And as far as reconnecting to yourself once you actually are burnt?click to expand
If my brain refuses to carry on with something, like in a writer's block, I'll do something different for a while. Also, spend several hours in the nature, avoid stimulants, take vitamins in the morning, magnesium in the evening, listen to music, chat with a friend, eat well, sleep more.
Try again after a few days....- Did you plan things? Or is he in charge? Did he book a hotel room….or your spare bedroom, lol?
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Sorry you feel this way.
Try to focus on the positives at work....those pupils who want to learn and actively engage with you, friendly exchanges with your colleagues, your bank account or whatever you could afford to buy with your wage...
Let the pupils do at least half of the work in classroom. Ask questions also when teaching, even if it's you who will give the answer. It will get their brain to engage in finding an answer, even for a few secs. Good for maintaining their attention. Talk in private with those who are disruptive...show kindness and concern for them, find their strength.
Seek help if nothing you already tried has worked...
Funny this is the advice as of this past Monday this has been the strategy, I do need to get better at putting more of the onus on them to grasp the material. As for classroom mgmt, well best practices are used in the room, praise in public, protest in private, when possible...but and this can't be understated: Brooklyn is gonna Brooklyn, and her children do the same lol.
I agree, except for “protest in private”. Don’t use your spare time for telling people off privately, it rarely works. As a former pupil with mild ADHD, daily bullied at home by my own mother, I struggled to pay attention in class. Some teachers disliked me, others were very kind to me, and I responded quite differently to the former versus the later.
When you tell off a difficult child, you are behaving like the majority of people. There is nothing that they haven’t heard it before, spare your breath. You’ll become one of the many, another one who “doesn’t understand me”, “doesn’t love me”.
On the other hand, if you show kindness, understanding, appreciation for some little thing they are good at, think they are clever and would do well in life if they “play the game”, then you’ll get their attention. I melted inside each time a teacher was kind to me, and tried to be on my best behaviour in their class afterwards, for at least a month!
Lol I think our definitions of protest are different, protest doesn't imply delivering a scolding for me.click to expand
What do you do?- I'm sure that my Aqua father's ghost reached out to me a few days ago!
This is something he would have done to share his excitement of finding that there is some sort of life even without a body. Very Aquarian of him.... - Sorry you feel this way.
Try to focus on the positives at work....those pupils who want to learn and actively engage with you, friendly exchanges with your colleagues, your bank account or whatever you could afford to buy with your wage...
Let the pupils do at least half of the work in classroom. Ask questions also when teaching, even if it's you who will give the answer. It will get their brain to engage in finding an answer, even for a few secs. Good for maintaining their attention. Talk in private with those who are disruptive...show kindness and concern for them, find their strength.
Seek help if nothing you already tried has worked... Posted by Sunsetvirgo
Idk I eat everything, no allergies that I know of either. Though, growing up my jamaican father made me eat everything. Tripe, salt fish, goat, okra, chicken feet, fish soup etc etc. you name it, I ate it.
Now that I’m allowed to have more say over my palate there are def things that I prefer more than others, but if I have to eat it, I will. And i may be quietly cautious to try certain new things but I’ll eat it.
Your father did the right thing.- Taurus.
My mother reduced her edibles over the years, to only 5-6 items. Reasons? As simple as hearing something on TV or having mild stomach ache. She could have eaten this thing 10000 times before, but it takes little to nothing to never eat it again.
Last time I visited, she refused to eat --from now on-- the standard supermarket mushrooms (cause maybe poisonous) or chicken, cause maybe salmonella. - She is smart and witty, better come back with an original username.
- This troll comes here every few months, claiming that some person doesn’t communicate with her. It used to be her love interest, remember?
She pretends to agree with the input she gets, but then she keeps asking variations of the same question, again and again, like a broken record. That’s her trolling strategy. Don’t waste your time responding. - Some anti-vaxxers, anti-protection idiots don't just stop at killing people by asking them to refuse the jab or the face mask.
They are fully blown terrorists (pun intended):
Cyprus' education minister has pledged to protect the country's teachers and schools from "bullying" following an overnight bomb attack against a primary school that is suspected to be the work of people opposed to compulsory mask-wearing at school.
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said in a statement that he will work with law enforcement authorities to prevent similar "common criminal acts" aiming to "intimidate" teachers and schoolchildren alike.
The makeshift explosive device that went off in the early hours of Thursday shattered window panes at the school and at an adjacent church. A second explosive device found at the school's main entrance apparently failed to go off. Posted by Moloko_vellocet
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In hindsight, I think you were the insecure one and you initially tried to get a reaction to see if he’d get jealous.
Now that you know he teases women about younger guys, you don’t feel that special.
You want more and he isn’t giving it so you tried to make him jealous or see if it’s true about cancers.
You wanted him more than he wanted you, so now you’re running it off and ending it
Big ego
You clearly haven’t read anything I’ve written. If I really wanted to make him jealous, do you think I would do it simply by mentioning a man’s age? If I was trying to make him jealous on purpose, I have 100 different ways of doing that more effectively. And I’m ending it because he’s not doing his part to develop a friendship that he said he wanted
Yep read your thread.
What you have is called denial.
The fact that you said “I have 100 different ways of doing that more effectively”, just outed your actual character.
Basically I’m not buying your “oh poor me he’s jealous” bs when you are looking for a reaction for the attention you see drifting away.
To grow as a person, you have to start looking at yourself authentically.click to expand
If you find out that someone knows 100 possible ways of killing someone.....will you be calling the cops on them?
Learn the difference between knowledge and intention. Between knowledge and action. In your mind, there is no difference, is it? Maybe you have such poor self control, that you are attempting to do everything that crosses your mind, as soon as it does? How many times have you been jailed already?Posted by einsthepisces
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Yes I am egocentric enough to believe the entire globe has conspired an elaborate and long running, not to mention costly, plot to trick me 😅🤪
Egocentric? I doesn't even have to be about you. What about the millions of people who are obviously sold as a consumer because they subconsciously crave more product and entertainment? You are literally the tiny aspect that makes the world's plot thicken.
Imo people who refuse to see anything else other then what is being fed to them are truly egocentric. You believe things you are fed are real, because it's what you want to believe. Thus you are correct. In your own mind that is. What could be more egocentric?
I agree with you. People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views are the ones trapped in the cave watching at shadows on the walls ( Plato ). There is so much between the two extremes ( believers and non-believers ). The virus exists, people die. This much is true. The true origin and intention are unknown.
90 percent of folks who are saying " People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views" in regards to the virus are 100% mocking people who take vaccines, wear masks and follow orders around lockdowns. What's more they are also believing all the things they're told about virus/vaccine provided that is goes against what the governments are doing. They're literally doing what they are preaching against and then ranting about how they aren't.
Exactly!
The most manipulated people are those who follow the anti-vaxxers, without even asking the most basic questions. Who are the people behind the anti-vaxxing campaign and what are their intentions?
They are people paid to spread lies about the vaccine, in order to maintain and expand the disease. Collapse the health care system and the economy, cause dissatisfaction and unrest in the population, and then blame the government for all the crap. They cheer each time more die of Covid, since it suits their agenda. They are people who profit from the pandemic, both financially (like bet on a falling stock market) and politically (hoping to gain traction against the party who won the election).
Meanwhile, the governments chosen by the party who won a democratic election and the overworked heath care practitioners are blamed for the most absurd things, which go against the fact that these are exactly the people who want you to be satisfied, so you would vote for them at next election and respectively heathy, so they don't suffer from burnout and could carry on treating people with other diseases as well!
People who live in a society have both responsibility and liberty. One can't claim a liberty to be irresponsible. It doesn't work like that! What this pandemic has shown, is that there are too many selfish and irresponsible people in the world.
"people paid", i think the one who have a lot of money to pay people is the pro vaccine, not to mention it have government and from that law and media support.
You should learn to use google translate better. BTW...do you know who is paying for google translate?
Dunno, but i do know, anyone with online company as its income will have a huge benefit with corona, because people cant go out from home and limited to interact with other people in real life so most of them will go online which hugely benefit online company income such as google.click to expand
Here is some advice, and it's not related to your horrible English.
Learn the very basic of stock market. Look at the indexes, since they are a reflection of many companies in a country, not just one. Look at their movement over the past 5 years. see what happened when the lockdown started (they crashed). See what happened in August 2020, when there was hope that the pandemic will be over, since the vaccine was announced (they climbed). See what happens now, when there is fear the pandemic is getting worse (they are crashing again).
A pandemic is horrible thing to happen, and is also horrible for the economy of any country, irrespective of how many online companies it has. "Online' means nothing, if people have lost their health, their work and income, and the price is way up, due to inflation. Your government doesn't give a butter about how much money google or amazon make. Neither does mine's. What they care, is the economy and people in their respective country.
The governments did their best to support people during lockdown. What did the anti-vaxxer do? Sabotage the government policy while betting on a falling economy and stock market and so making money at the expense of the investors (investors could be any average Joe).Posted by einsthepisces
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Posted by LadyNeptune
Yes I am egocentric enough to believe the entire globe has conspired an elaborate and long running, not to mention costly, plot to trick me 😅🤪
Egocentric? I doesn't even have to be about you. What about the millions of people who are obviously sold as a consumer because they subconsciously crave more product and entertainment? You are literally the tiny aspect that makes the world's plot thicken.
Imo people who refuse to see anything else other then what is being fed to them are truly egocentric. You believe things you are fed are real, because it's what you want to believe. Thus you are correct. In your own mind that is. What could be more egocentric?
I agree with you. People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views are the ones trapped in the cave watching at shadows on the walls ( Plato ). There is so much between the two extremes ( believers and non-believers ). The virus exists, people die. This much is true. The true origin and intention are unknown.
90 percent of folks who are saying " People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views" in regards to the virus are 100% mocking people who take vaccines, wear masks and follow orders around lockdowns. What's more they are also believing all the things they're told about virus/vaccine provided that is goes against what the governments are doing. They're literally doing what they are preaching against and then ranting about how they aren't.
Exactly!
The most manipulated people are those who follow the anti-vaxxers, without even asking the most basic questions. Who are the people behind the anti-vaxxing campaign and what are their intentions?
They are people paid to spread lies about the vaccine, in order to maintain and expand the disease. Collapse the health care system and the economy, cause dissatisfaction and unrest in the population, and then blame the government for all the crap. They cheer each time more die of Covid, since it suits their agenda. They are people who profit from the pandemic, both financially (like bet on a falling stock market) and politically (hoping to gain traction against the party who won the election).
Meanwhile, the governments chosen by the party who won a democratic election and the overworked heath care practitioners are blamed for the most absurd things, which go against the fact that these are exactly the people who want you to be satisfied, so you would vote for them at next election and respectively heathy, so they don't suffer from burnout and could carry on treating people with other diseases as well!
People who live in a society have both responsibility and liberty. One can't claim a liberty to be irresponsible. It doesn't work like that! What this pandemic has shown, is that there are too many selfish and irresponsible people in the world.
"people paid", i think the one who have a lot of money to pay people is the pro vaccine, not to mention it have government and from that law and media support.click to expand
You should learn to use google translate better. BTW...do you know who is paying for google translate?- "To be reminded of her scent".....err....that's not the reason men sniff panties, lol.
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Posted by LadyNeptune
Yes I am egocentric enough to believe the entire globe has conspired an elaborate and long running, not to mention costly, plot to trick me 😅🤪
Egocentric? I doesn't even have to be about you. What about the millions of people who are obviously sold as a consumer because they subconsciously crave more product and entertainment? You are literally the tiny aspect that makes the world's plot thicken.
Imo people who refuse to see anything else other then what is being fed to them are truly egocentric. You believe things you are fed are real, because it's what you want to believe. Thus you are correct. In your own mind that is. What could be more egocentric?
I agree with you. People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views are the ones trapped in the cave watching at shadows on the walls ( Plato ). There is so much between the two extremes ( believers and non-believers ). The virus exists, people die. This much is true. The true origin and intention are unknown.
90 percent of folks who are saying " People who accept everything without questioning and mock those who have different views" in regards to the virus are 100% mocking people who take vaccines, wear masks and follow orders around lockdowns. What's more they are also believing all the things they're told about virus/vaccine provided that is goes against what the governments are doing. They're literally doing what they are preaching against and then ranting about how they aren't.click to expand
Exactly!
The most manipulated people are those who follow the anti-vaxxers, without even asking the most basic questions. Who are the people behind the anti-vaxxing campaign and what are their intentions?
They are people paid to spread lies about the vaccine, in order to maintain and expand the disease. Collapse the health care system and the economy, cause dissatisfaction and unrest in the population, and then blame the government for all the crap. They cheer each time more die of Covid, since it suits their agenda. They are people who profit from the pandemic, both financially (like bet on a falling stock market) and politically (hoping to gain traction against the party who won the election).
Meanwhile, the governments chosen by the party who won a democratic election and the overworked heath care practitioners are blamed for the most absurd things, which go against the fact that these are exactly the people who want you to be satisfied, so you would vote for them at next election and respectively heathy, so they don't suffer from burnout and could carry on treating people with other diseases as well!
People who live in a society have both responsibility and liberty. One can't claim a liberty to be irresponsible. It doesn't work like that! What this pandemic has shown, is that there are too many selfish and irresponsible people in the world.
