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 your students without having to stretch yourself out like having them work in groups to help each other or whatever alternative solution is best that you can think of.
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