Brianna King

Teacher Self-Attention and the Classroom Culture: Mindfulness/Self-Attention:  I am currently still using my Calm App to help me practice mindfulness after my five minutes in the morning, I noticed that it helped me have a better start to my day I was more relaxed not as tired. In the evening before bed, the breathing exercises helped me have a better night's sleep my body was more calm and relaxed for bed.  Reflection on your experience with the daily self-attention ritual (6-7 sentences): Why do you think it is important for teachers, in particular, to take excellent care of their mental and emotional health especially as it relates to creating cultures in the classroom setting that are kind, respectful, and engaging? Teachers must take the cause of their mental and emotional health because teaching can be very stressful at times. There are going to be moments where you are mentally and emotionally drained. Sometimes we can let our emotions get the best of us and we don't ev...

Teacher Calm and the Classroom Starting with the Self: My goal was to practice mindfulness at least twice a week for at least 5-10 minutes a day. It was very challenging for me to do this because I get easily distracted. I used the app Calm to help me during this mindfulness along with YouTube videos.  One of my takeaways is how hard it was for me to stay focused and not look at my phone.   I spend a lot of time on the screen whether it is looking at my laptop for homework or my phone.  One of the ways I was able to stop this during my mindfulness time is by putting my phone in another room and being able to actually focus on my thoughts and mindfulness.  When I was practicing this mindfulness I noticed a lot about myself. I experienced a lot of anxiety and when I was doing this it brought my anxiety down a lot but I was still experiencing anxiety after. But, I thought to myself when doing this that I could practice mindfulness in other ways. I really enjoy...