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Looking back at my free inquiry work this semester, I can honestly say I enjoyed it, but not always in the way I expected. The best part of this experience was not just the topic itself, but the process. I found myself really valuing the moments where I could sit down, write, and draw, my…
This week I have been thinking a lot about burnout. Not teacher burnout, which we often hear about, but student burnout. As adult learners and teaching candidates, many of us feel it. I tend to look for more than one reason for things. That is just how my brain works. Sometimes it helps me understand…
Long before education became organized into curricula, textbooks, and exams, humans learned through stories. Storytelling was not entertainment or decoration; it was a way of passing on knowledge, values, history, identity, and relationships to the world. In many ancient cultures, especially within Indigenous ways of knowing, story is not simply a way of expressing knowledge,…
In the psychology of adolescence, we learn about brain development and the biological changes in when adolescents naturally fall asleep and wake up. Early school start times create chronic sleep deprivation, which negatively affects learning, attention, and academic performance. Chronic sleep deprivation in adolescents has been linked to many negative outcomes, including: Because of this…
In one of our morning classes this week, my group was exploring hygge and what it might mean in education. Hygge is a Danish term often translated as coziness, but we quickly learned it is much more than comfort or atmosphere. As a group, we talked about why people in countries like Denmark often report…
