What's Stressing You Out? | Origin: ED110
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Time and Stress Management for Instructors --> What's Stressing You Out?
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Addressing the stresses in an effective manner and trying to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You need a place to talk and that is not your classroom. There is NOTHING wrong with adding personal things into your lecture...they humanize you...but it is just a passing statement. It does not become a 5 minute discussion.
Identifying your stressors and writing them on a list can help us manage them better. We have to focus and redirect our energy to something more positive in order to cope.
identifying stressers in real time shows good emotional iq
Identifying specific stressors can assist in finding solutions to alleviate those that we can control.
I should write a stress list to identify and take care of the stressors in my life.
For a new teacher, I have found a lot of relief in discussing my stresses with my collogues. Most of them are helpful problem solvers and when they aren't able to offer viable solutions, they are great listeners.
I've learned a couple ways of managing different types of stress and to be open and transparent about them.
Writing a stress list will help me clear my mind and realize if there are any adjustments I need to make.
Work life balance is very important yet it is one of the hardest ones you will work on to come up with a system that works for you. Just remember you will not figure it out overnight this will take some trail and error.
We can control our stress by first identifying the causes. Stress can affect both our professional and personal lives. Something that I have been working on for years is to create a better work/life balance.
stress in personal life can effect in your professional life as well as vice versa. learning how to balance can be easier said than done, learning to identify stressors helps in managing/preventing them
Just a reminder that It is not healthy to ignore stressors in life.
Not enough time to do anything particularly well.
We should identify stresses, right them down and try to maintain work life balance.
This module have taught me some life lessons about stress. In some cases depending on how stressful is the situation, stress can kill you. Another factor that was discussed is stress from administration. This makes on the job performance difficult.
Work life balance is key and yet can be hard to achieve
I don't like to be behind because if I'm already behind and something out of the ordinary happens it will really be stressful. However, trying to keep up can be stressful as well, so it's kind of a no-win situation. So, in this case, I've chosen to live with the stress of keeping up knowing it's short-term. I'm also learning to not put expectations on myself that my supervisor isn't putting on me. I now delay classes to do clerical stuff that will build up over time.
Is very important to understand when you are stressed and to identify stressors in your life. Try to focus on things that you can change or control and do your best on things you can't.
