Comments on: Why It's Important to Keep the Well Full http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/08/why-its-important-to-keep-the-well-full-2/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chandij http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/08/why-its-important-to-keep-the-well-full-2/comment-page-1/#comment-214 chandij Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:48:32 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-214 Enjoyed your comments on teaching. This past May I finished my first year of teaching college (history) and it was a killer as well as having fulfilling moments. It was a TON of output.... and everyone I knew who'd taught a first year of college told me "It'll get better, the first year is a killer!" And the thing about me, is that I put 100% or more into each new thing I take on... if I believe in it. And I believe strongly in the value of education. So I threw myself into it. I wanted to do a good job and I wanted to interest the students, and it takes a lot of effort, to think of ways to make history come alive for students, and to come up with ways to get students to learn to think critically. Plus I was thrown into teaching historical periods/countries that I had NEVER studied... the good thing was that I got great training in HOW to teach history during my MA program. Anyway, I aprpeciated what you said about output.... and about input, because I honestly wasn't able, during the "first year" to nurture myself. And then my appendix burst about a month after spring semester ended. Was it related to how stressed I got and how little nurturing I had? (I was going through a marriage separation at the same time...) So now I have to work on input.... Let me know if you write more posts about it! Chandi www.italiandreams.wordpress.com Enjoyed your comments on teaching. This past May I finished my first year of teaching college (history) and it was a killer as well as having fulfilling moments. It was a TON of output…. and everyone I knew who’d taught a first year of college told me “It’ll get better, the first year is a killer!” And the thing about me, is that I put 100% or more into each new thing I take on… if I believe in it. And I believe strongly in the value of education. So I threw myself into it. I wanted to do a good job and I wanted to interest the students, and it takes a lot of effort, to think of ways to make history come alive for students, and to come up with ways to get students to learn to think critically. Plus I was thrown into teaching historical periods/countries that I had NEVER studied… the good thing was that I got great training in HOW to teach history during my MA program. Anyway, I aprpeciated what you said about output…. and about input, because I honestly wasn’t able, during the “first year” to nurture myself. And then my appendix burst about a month after spring semester ended. Was it related to how stressed I got and how little nurturing I had? (I was going through a marriage separation at the same time…)

So now I have to work on input…. Let me know if you write more posts about it!

Chandi
http://www.italiandreams.wordpress.com

]]> By: amythecopywriter http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/08/why-its-important-to-keep-the-well-full-2/comment-page-1/#comment-215 amythecopywriter Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:34:22 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-215 So weird. I just telling someone I needed some input time in September. I get input from a lot of places. Books, kids, movies, people, art - and, not meaning to get all Zen or anything, sometimes silence is an input. Calm the waters of the output and see what's been hiding underneath. So weird. I just telling someone I needed some input time in September. I get input from a lot of places. Books, kids, movies, people, art – and, not meaning to get all Zen or anything, sometimes silence is an input. Calm the waters of the output and see what’s been hiding underneath.

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