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Author Archives: Pei-Hsuan Lin
Steps for Collective Well-Being in the New School Year
Teachers can rebuild connections and create an educational environment in which they support students and each other.
- TAKE A HEALING-CENTERED APPROACH
- MAKE TIME AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR TO (RE)BUILD CONNECTIONS Get to know your colleagues and students.
- Acknowledge and greet each other
- Humanize each other beyond school roles
- Build a classroom that is grounded in collective values
- Make time for check-ins
- Listen to one another—and make sure everyone is heard
- CONSIDER CEREMONY AND RITUAL TO COMMEMORATE THE PREVIOUS YEAR Reflect on the losses and challenges of the past year
Pause. - Have a moment of silence. Connect
Some reflection
I have been attending some workshop recently. Since COVID, most workshops were online. I feel strongly about in the field of education, it is not what you want, but what you DO. English is not my native language, and some workshop participants are not, but they are strive to express their thoughts even their English is not pretty good. On the other hand, as a Taiwanese, I am more conservative. I tried, but honestly, if I were them, it would be very difficult for me to express my ideas or I even felt embarrassed.
As educators, we often teach kids to be open-minded, but in the reality, we are not as open as thought…. 
In the upcoming semester,
- Wishes: get along with kids as much as I can during COVID
- Challenges: Under the uncertainty of COVID, do we need to implement hybrid learning or blended learning? How to cut down the screen time during current era?
- Opportunities: COVID has changed our lives; it even strengthen our online teaching competency. I think I can advance my online teaching skills utilizing this special opportunoty.
The cure of burnout (hint:it in’t selfcare)
How to turn off work thoughts during your fee time?
Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow’s tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.
- The more we ruminate about work when we’re home, the more likely we are to experience sleep disturbances.
- It may even increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and of impairing our executive functioning, the very skill sets we need to do our jobs well.
- while ruminating about work when we’re home damages our emotional well-being, thinking about work in creative or problem-solving ways does not. Because those kinds of thinking do not elicit emotional distress and, more importantly, they’re in our control.
- Ruminations are involuntary. They’re intrusive. They pop into our head when we don’t want them to. They upset us when we don’t want to be upset. They switch us on when we are trying to switch off. And they are very difficult to resist, because thinking of all our unfinished tasks feels urgent. Anxiously worrying about the future feels compelling. Ruminating always feels like we’re doing something important, when in fact, we’re doing something harmful. And we all do it far more than we realize.