#i am not a teacher

[onlyjaeyun]

today my 9th graders and i talked about enha and one of them said she saw my jake pc in my phone case and i literally started blishing talking about him 😫😫😫 turns out she's jay biased and we clicked instantly!!!! i lit love talking about enha with my students bc it makes me feel young ngl 🫣 but also bc i love showing them it's okay if its not a phase LMAO

[dhampiravidi]

Teaching a lesson at my mom’s school today. No, I don’t have any teaching experience. Hopefully her middle schoolers are nice 🥺

[paracawsal]

time to be a wet blanket

So I was going to say this in response to another reblogged post, but then work happened and I deleted the post b/c this is already going to be out of context.

Anyway, I was going to say that- and I know I've said this a billion times- discernment is so, so important. Of course, this is my opinion, but I say it from experience. Critical thinking in a spiritual/magical practice is important.

IMO, you need to know what is 'you' from what is 'not-you'. This sounds like it should be obvious, but it's not. For example: I have ADHD. I basically have an internal monologue going on all the time. I know this isn't a spirit or a god, because I know what my internal noise is like. (And yes, it's as annoying as it sounds) If I'm trying to interact with a spirit or a god, and they "sound" like my internal chatter? It's most likely that. And to be honest, if I had to guess, this is probably what some 'imposter spirits' actually are.

That goes into finding a mundane reason for things. Is it exciting and magical? No, and that's the point. Gonna use candle magic as an example, since it's what i'm most familiar with. Maybe that one candle burned down faster because you are near a vent and the air is blowing on that one candle specifically, maybe the candle flared up because the candle is melting faster than the wick can burn. I don't know how many taper candles I've had to turn out, cut the wick, re-light, etc, because of this. Now if you rule out all those things and there's still some kind of weirdness? Then congrats! You may actually be experiencing some kind of weirdness. But imo, it's unwise to jump to 'it's obviously weirdness' first thing.

I just think it's a good idea to have at least a basic understanding of what your inner voice sounds like, what your energy feels like, and what 'you' are in a spiritual sense. I'm not talking about labels here. I know when something is 'me' in a journey no matter what I look like because of how that feels. Once I started to figure out what was 'me', I was able to map out boundaries with spirits and entities better. I started to feel more free to explore in my practice and more grounded in general. And I think this is why people push shadow work so hard, I just don't think it's always necessary, I think there are other ways to get to a similar place.

And now that I can better 'feel' myself in a spiritual sense, I feel more myself in my body, if that makes sense. It's helped me accept my disabilities, helped me realize that I'm non-binary, and has eased some of the imposter syndrome I experience (though... not all of it lololol fuck). Again, having ADHD (and likely Autism) I have learned to supress my body's pain and distress signals for so long, and over time, I feel like I'm slowly learning to listen to my body again. Which brings me to 'what is me' and 'what is pain monster-me', but that's another post for another time.

[trek-tracks]

When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

[deathspeaker]

Sometimes...

Sometimes you read something that is so... wrong... fundamentally wrong on every level and it's like... yeah we're probably on the same ideological 'side' but like... WHAT ARE YOU READING!? What... mistakes have brought you to these idiots that are so contradictory to evidence, research, and science, to arrive at these points!?

[unu-amiga-nomo]

Basics of esperanto:

Verbal terminaisons:

-i is for infinitive form, esti - to be

-as is for the present, estas - am, are

-is is for the past, estis - was, were

-u is the imperative form, estu - be! Lernu - learn!

-os is for the future, estos - will

-us is for the conditional, estus - would be

[bloodysparklez]

guys help the protagonist isn't supposed to like me, what did i do??!? ;-;

[tenowls]

teacher getou au...... wauh

[queruloustea]

exploring the abandoned archives

[chaoticfandomthot]

Teachers don't want you to use wikipedia because they know you'll stop listening to them because wikipedia is so much sexier and smarter and cooler

[irate-iguana]

We need more weird historian rep in Doctor Who. The companions are too normal when faced with the prospect of time travel. I want a companion who makes a list of super specific historical destinations related to their dissertation. I want somebody whose first reaction to finding out that the Doctor is a time travelling alien is to create a Microsoft Word document and ask, “What caused the Late Bronze Age collapse?”

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

[slavicafire]

aw. I'm sitting at a bus stop, waiting, and suddenly a group of kindergarten children emerges with their two teachers and joins me at the bus stop. and because it's small and they're children, they just literally surround me (being very curious about my bag and my clothes and whatnot). and the teacher just goes "can you please not surround the nice lady like you're a gaggle of geese please!"

which just made all the kids giggle and make goose sounds. and duck sounds, admittedly. incredibly adorable

[junebugjo]

will take a better picture eventually but this is my first linocut print

[r-aindr0p]

the wotr creatures

[brighteuphony]

As per usual, without the wall of text.