3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue # 46 /  May 25th 2021

Are you working long hours? Are you taking breaks between your household chores, teaching/parenting/studying? Are you trying to be a perfectionist at all that you do? Are you feeling intense empathy for pandemic sufferings? Are you maxing out your energies and yet feeling that you have been procrastinating? The answer may not be self-care. You might be experiencing the onset of burnout…
Burnout includes 3 general categories of symptoms: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and a sense of low personal accomplishment. How can you know for sure? what can you do about it? what can you do for your colleagues, family members, students if you think they are heading towards burnout? Read on and subscribe.

Three images of the week

Two thoughts of the week

“I’ll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher.”
― Dave Burgess, Teach Like a Pirate: Increase student engagement, boost your creativity and transform your life as an educator.

“[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can’t even: How millennials became the burnout generation.

One video for the week

You may be experiencing burnout and not even know it, say authors (and sisters) Emily and Amelia Nagoski. In an introspective and deeply relatable conversation, they detail three telltale signs that stress is getting the best of you — and share actionable ways to feel safe in your own body when you’re burning out. (This conversation, hosted by TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks, is part of TED’s “How to Deal with Difficult Feelings” series.)

Dear reader,

I have been a research scientist, a journalist and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and I write.  With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and experience while I engage with students, parents and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and ed-tech organisations.

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv  is a newsletter for you to subscribe and enjoy your learning journey with me. This week, it consists of:  3 images, 2 thoughts and 1 video.

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