Hitting it out of the park!

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This is increasing exponentially! I am doing really well!

I have been working at the Arts Conference and I have been feeling confident and powerful. I feel so competent. I am just doing so well.

I have been putting out brush fires all day, managing the anxious, depressed, PTSD people and really being grounded and totally calm and walking conference goers to their rooms because the anxious people do better with you helping and settling them down.

Members of the Conference committee have been quite vocal telling me that I am fantastic and awesome. They said this to me during the day and they also texted me this during the day when I reported an issue and told them my solutions. Which was kind of cute and amusing. I did feeling chuffed!

I just made executive decisions and fixed things they were most impressed by my people skills and problem solving!

I really addressed the emotional need beneath the difficult issues I was given, so even when I couldn't fix it I had given deep listening, empathy and compassion so the highly anxious person felt heard this meant that they weren't as upset.

I am doing phenomenally well!

 

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Today was tough but I did a good job of teaching. The teacher I replaced had no classes for me to do but I said that was fine and I would make it work and I did a good job.

The last class I had was really painful. Most of the kids in that class probably need Trauma therapy or should be in a Special School. They are such low ability they aren't able to do the Curriculum. I had a SEP class today and in contrast to the nightmare situation where I had no or one teacher's aide I had three other adults in the classroom. It was still a challenging class but I was able to teach content.

 

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So I worked today and yesterday. I did really well.

I had two challenging classes today. I managed pretty well. The last class was a bit of a train wreck. I needed to have spent more time building rapport at the beginning. The problem was I just came out of a class where I had to buddy up 5 students of the full on Year 7 class - which all the teachers told me that were a tough class. After that I did two lunch duties, came back with 3 minutes to prepare and the computer system went down.

So I did okay but I was rattled and they played up spectacularly. I will get more strategic and cleverer with preparation as time goes on.

I can see how I can do better with the last Year 9 class and I did the best that could be done for the Year 7 class. I actually did really well.

The Year 9 I can see how I can improve, and that will be the next improvement to my teaching. I did have an escalation with a student because she kept going with the attitude.I confiscated her phone.

She was furious. OMG! The princess vibes.

The two Princesses up the back of Year 9 they were annoying so despite technology failing and me being given so much to do I had three minutes to prepare for a class of students I had no rapport with. I did okay.

It's not good for them though. The Education system in Australia is a solid failure through and through - and it is a systemic problem - not the teachers or students fault. It's ridiculous. Teachers are the punching bags for the politicians, whenever they want something off the front page they go for the teachers. And it shows 35% of Principles in Australia were physically assaulted last year.

 

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My lower back is really bad. I am okay with not having work today. I have to prepare for the workshop day I am running on Sunday so thankfully I have got lots of ideas. Now I have to do them all.