Raising the Question
For this post, I am responding to Alyssa Duchesne's color the overture post. I enjoyed reading your post because I can completely relate to the fatigue and clicking the space bar until you find a suitable color scheme. I thought that your names for your colors were very carefully chosen and that you gave excellent explanations behind the names that you gave.
My question for you comes from the form of motivation! This year especially had been an exhausting one. You mentioned that you teach Kindergarten, which I imagine is so hard to manage when it comes to new COVID school rules. With everything going on, where do you find your motivation? There are times when I KNOW I should take work home or stay up a little later to finish something, but I don't follow through.
So again,
Where do you find motivation?
Do you make sure to take time for yourself and do things you enjoy?
Do you have relaxing techniques?
Thanks in advance for your response!
I love that first question so much! The second two have me wondering what would happen if she provided you with two single word answers.
ReplyDeleteNo.
No.
That would kick me right in the gut. I'm wondering how we might avoid the yes/no format since we are hoping the subjects of our questions provide us with rich context and insight. This is something I have to recalibrate for any sort of empathy work I do with my colleagues as well. I received a "No. No. Yes. No." to a four question survey that I created to wrangle with some big grading practices issues on campus. I spent hours crafting the questions and was focused on choosing the best four so much, I didn't even realize I set them all up as yes/no questions even though I provided space for long responses. The next staff meeting was awkward -- for me anyway.