Week off

 By the way I took the last week off because I went to awp and then I was very exhausted on Monday and tuesday.

The three zones graphics

 Today I was working on the Zone approximal growth, zone of regulation, and the window of tolerance. I'm working on the small write-up as a kind of introduction to how I see trauma informed pedagogy. I did some more voice to text tonight and should be able to wrap it up on friday.

Against Authoritarian Teaching

 As I'm going over my belonging book as I'm about to return it, it feels like a lot of things are coming together for a larger article. That the idea of belonging and authoritarianism are at odds with each other. I'm also bringing up the black Cinema class I taught with ideas of how to move forward. Like when David from K-State was total authoritarianism.

I am also writing about why TIP--but from the approach that is down-to-earth. We can go over all the statistics, but really, not everyone will get on board--just like administration says we celebrate diversity and inclusion, but we know not all of our colleagues don't feel that way. 

I worked a few hours!

Add a note I am checking out the people colors book, that this form of being in the world is not and should not be a detriment but is just another way to communicate with someone.

Bold TIP Tips

I did an hour and a half of writing today, working on the small mini pieces of what a humorously called bold tip tips and I'm enjoying it. I take each of the tic/tip components like safety, collaboration, etc

Then I elaborate on how it fits each of those components.

I'm really enjoying this.

This week so far

I had the first ctel event for trauma-informed pedagogies, and I really like it as it gives me a chance to explore how people might feel coming into the group. For example, the questions of where did this come from? How fresh is this?

I even came up with the aha moment, what if we allowed students to have exams or quizzes with an earbud in their ears? It came from when I surveyed my class asking how many study listening to music and everyone raised their hand.

I'm going to do some research about music and memory, as well as less anxiety which makes sense. Also state-based memory something Jericho shared with me.

That chewing gum or eating peppermint that you remember things better?

Also, the policy of content warning, that Jericho writing about her character putting a bike together came up with the realization that her father did that for a little time. Instead of the disengagement of something that would be traumatic, that there are coping mechanisms for someone to be able to do something as we all have our triggers and different things that could do so.

The three graphs and index cards

 I started writing two different mini articles that I want to send out soon, one about the three different graphs and the other about the power of help cards or index cards.

I'm really reflecting on how if I got ski and the self-regulation is based on childhood-based approaches for development, but they seem to apply to adults too.

Burnout

 Oh wow, I had a student in nursing who found a great article about how when discussions of burnout come up that tic is never mentioned. It's funny, because the same will happen here on campus as I'm sure across campus, that students and faculty and staff say there's just so much work to do, that the end of the semester is a burden, and that the word burnout comes up. Of course, no one's talking about the conversations about tip, and what we're asking students to do, and what we are asked to do ourselves. So I'm doing a little writing about that today.

Being a trauma informed instructor means you're going to do everything in your power to ask students to take steps in avoiding burnout, as well as not adding material to create the atmosphere for burnout.