Teacher Assisting: Botanical Garden Lesson 4/9/2025 UNCC Botanical Gardens We did the same lesson as last semester at the botanical gardens only this time I because I had already done the assignment before Jessica Hawkins asked me to teacher assist the lesson again. I told them that they have to get 3 items as a group so that they could write or make a story together as a group. I gave them a few minutes but also creative freedom for any grade level so that they can feel creative and they aren't limiting themselves. But this experience to me feels more motivating and encouraging because when I was in high school, I used to teacher assist in a dance studio which made me feel invigorating and insightful. I still felt the teacher in me when I became a teaching assistant for Teaching Fellows Seminar, and I hope to keep feeling this way until I become a teacher.
Compassion Fatigue Lesson 3/26/2025 Cato College of Education On Wednesday we had a lesson about compassion fatigue with what it is and how it can affect you. Compassion fatigue is where if you help a lot of students by stretching yourself like if you give extra tutoring to 20 kids to help them when it is almost unrealistic and stretching yourself thin. Then the next day you start to feel tired and less likely to be able to teach. That's why it's a good idea to try a medicine wheel which is a way to organize ways to help yourself in ways. That day we had a medicine wheel that we had organized and used it to try and find activities and ways to help calm our nerves as well as getting us focused for class. I think it will be a useful tool or a reference to be able to help if you feel like you're stretching yourself out too much. It's also important that you have some time for yourself so that you can relax a little bit. It may be important to find different way to help y...