#teaching struggles

[notetaeker]

March 25, 2023 - Saturday | Ramadan Challenge 🌙 3/30

Love saturdays love the pleasant surprise of not setting an alarm and still waking up at a good time, love not having work or internship, love gloomy rainy days 🕯

📸 occupational hazard, propagating plants (an attempt) + my recent cloud art is now my wallpaper ☁️

What type of worship comes the easiest to you? I think I’d say dhikr. Both in the literal sense like tasbih/tahmid/takbir + morning duas etc but also dhikr in the sense of the meaning of the word like the remembrance of Allah. Maybe cuz I like drawing or because I’m a science nerd but I’m always notice and am awed by the beauty and intricacies of the creation of Allah. Like that verse from Surah Ale-Imran is so important to me: ‘Verily in the alternation of the day and night there are signs for people of understanding’ I’d like to think I’m one of those people 🤧

#ramadanchallenge2023 #ramadan challenge #notes #studyblr #studyspo #teaching struggles

[roachthefish-alt]

Me: Okay, it's just a 16 year old girl that I'm teaching. She can't hurt me

The girl: *Leaves me on read.*

Me: NOOO I DISAPPOINTED HER, I'M A BAD TEACHER AND I DIDN'T EVEN START GIVING HER LESSONS

#teaching struggles

[sunlightandtealeaves]

I hate when it is time to get student feedback. Because even if everyone generally gives me good feedback that one student who says something bad or even remotely negative absolutely ruins me. I have all of these kids saying how much they enjoy my courses but one kid telling me that he thinks I am not as encouraging of his opinions as I could be like kills me. It’s also silly because I know who it is. And like I did generally try and make him think about what he was saying but that’s my job. He once asked if colonization could be a good thing “because it can’t always just be bad” and I reminded him of the basics of the colonial process and the harm it causes and he got frustrated. But colonization is not a good thing, it is my job to teach kids that, I can’t encourage opinions that are just factually incorrect. I have a mantra for teaching and I’m going to be repeating it all day.

#the mantra is you can’t be the perfect teacher for every kid but that’s part of your job too #At least I taught this kid what he doesn’t want in a teacher even if I wish I hadn’t #but I’m not the teacher for every student #I am a person not a commodity I can’t be broadly consumed #teaching struggles

[bizarrelittlemew]

Finally gaining approval and popularity in a world you always craved being a part of vs. watching the other person enjoying the very thing you're trying to escape

One difference:

#i honestly think stede stays quietly behind because he thinks he doesn't deserve better than to be ridiculed and ignored #while ed leaves before things go to shit because he's 1) panicking and 2) can't allow himself to be loved for real yet #meaning he can't step in like stede did when things start going wrong (but i wonder if the fight with zheng would've happened if he stayed) #this has been bouncing around in my head since thursday but i've never struggled more with a gifset lmao #these were hell to color and i gave up making this coherent bye #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x7 #ofmd s2 #edward teach #stede bonnet

[akitalockwood]

Obligatory Little mermaid redraw with my favorite pirate cringefails 💜

Commissions OPEN btw

#ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #Ofmd s2 #Our flag means death spoilers #Ofmd spoilers #Our flag means death season 2 spoilers #gentlebeard #stede bonnet #ed teach #Ofmd fanart #Aki's blorbos #Aki can art #illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #art #Y'ALL I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH BURNOUT FOR MONTHS AND TGE FIRST THING TO KICK ITS ASS IS THESE DORKS #Nothing beats gay pirates when it comes to art inspiration

[nicxxx5]

in other words, the other night at work i had another kid tell me they were scared of me and im so upset 😭

like i was talking about how this other kid has been acting like he’s afraid of me when he didn’t used to and this kid just goes “yeah, i can see where that comes from” LIKE HELLO???

and he refused to explain! like he just left!! 😭

istg it is not my goal to scare these kids, and i know i’m overly sarcastic but i’m just try to be friends with them and make them laugh!!! 😭

#teaching #teaching kids #teaching teens #teacher #daily life update #daily struggles #kids #i dont know why i scare these kids #like i really try not too #maybe my sarcasm is just really that bad #i mean i am autistic so #akdhasjd #but i love my students they're all great and i want them to like me not fear me #teaching struggles #teacher struggles #working with kids #working with teens

[roboticchibitan]

Once again thinking about the ATLA post series (not in continuity with the comics) fanfic I'll never write that follows Azula going to work in Iroh's tea shop in Ba Sing Se and her ensuing struggle with psychosis and realizing she was in the wrong and is just as much the victim of an abusive parent as Zuko was.

In this story Iroh tries to help her and at first she HATES it. She hates his kindness, she hates the sadness on his face when he sees her struggling, she hates all of it. At one point she snaps at Iroh to stop pitying her and he says, "Don't you know the difference between compassion and pity?" And she snaps back that they're the same thing and he replies, "You're wrong, Azula. Pity is simply feeling sad for someone's circumstances. Compassion is the desire for their circumstances to get better." And it hits her like a ton of bricks that this man, unlike her father, wants what's best for her. He's only ever treated her with kindness and she's disrespected him and called him weak for it and it's the most actual love she's ever received from a father figure in her fifteen years of life. And she wants nothing more than to cry in his arms but she can't yet because she doesn't know how to show weakness in front of anyone because of what her father did to her.

I see a post floating around sometimes where someone said that as a child, Azula is the scariest character, but as an adult, she's the saddest and I agree. She was 15. She deserves a redemption arc.

#maybe someday I'll write it #I know the struggle of having a cruel parent teach you to be cruel #and having to realize that your own cruelty is hurting you and you need to learn to be better #and struggling with psychosis while this realization is happening #I think I'm uniquely suited to tell this story but I don't have enough to start writing yet #atla #avatar the last airbender #azula

[dawnsedits]

Come on! Faster!

#dcmultiverse #dcugifs #dcfilmblr #dcedit #dceuedit #aquamanedit #arthurcurryedit #ormmariusedit #arthur curry #orm marius #aquaman #dceu #dc #my gifs. #every bit of this lives rent free in my mind forever #his penguin run. arthur actually teaching him. the way he nyooms out of there. the way he says 'yeah!!!' and arthur struggling to catch up #peak content

[julykings]

the last bits of 2023

#the last months I’ve mostly been busy with work but can say that I got through my first semester teaching successfully although struggled #along the way. my anxiety is at an all time high + I’m dealing with some medical stuff so I’m just trying to stayyy appreciative of every #day I feel good u kno. ugh. #I’m working on quitting my excessive weed usage lol. otherwise working out and doing pole when I can. #and watching lots of movies and doing lots of art . at least this past week since school is out #personal

[blackbonnette]

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach

#ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #edward teach #blackbeard #when everyone has expectations of you and you try to meet them etc etc #these scenes make me feel a little bit insane #kicking and screaming and chewing glass #i struggled with the caption for so long i'm giving up #* #*gifs

[notetaeker]

I knew teaching at a bigger school would be difficult but I didn't know I would be so affected by the kids...

I treat the 8th graders like high schoolers (I always have), like a LOT of them are already super tall and already looking the part. A few days ago when the teacher in charge of lunch detention came by, I gave the name of the noisiest kid. This kid, still being his noisy self, gets up and says 'oh its not fair' etc, but when he looks at me, he looks like he's abt to cry 🤡 and I immediately am like 'Or you can promise me not to disrupt class tomorrow and I won't send you' which he obviously accepts

Meanwhile, I'm also spending my days waiting for this one kid to smile at me again at some point or else I can't let go of my guilt of sending him to the principals office ;_; i feel like I betrayed him and he'll never smile at me again 😢 When he had come back from the office his face was red and his eyes were all watery and he was trying his best not to cry and like... I feel so gutted man to see that especially because they don't look like babies anymore.

I know they've just become teenagers and every emotion is so big and everything feels like the end of the world and I cannot bear to see these kids about to cry, especially not because of something I did. But at the same time they're the ones refusing to sit down and can't hear anything I'm trying to teach because the rest of the class is being so loud, and distracting. I can't just do nothing about that! Or else how will they pass the standardized exam at the end of the year? Sigh.

#Turns out the saga is not over turns out im just a big softie who can do nothing #either I melt and can't discipline them #or I myself am abt to cry from frustration #smh #this is too difficult of a puzzle (and too emotional tbh im so tired) #I wish I could give them hugs lowkey but skjdfa that's inappropriate #like u know when u send little kids to time out you always give them a hug afterward? #so they don't feel like you're doing this because you hate them #and tbh teenagers prob need the most hugs #My little 4th graders from years ago have hugged me until I started believing in the power of hugs #its a shame that I'm teaching 8th grade now where I can't use that power #sucks to have physical tough as a love language (giving) in situations like this #teaching struggles #💭.txt

[sugar-tooth]

your weT.

#joanfk #clone high #clone jfk #clone high reboot #clone joan #I KNOW ITS MESSY BUT ITS CUTE SO SHHHHHHH #pls someone teach me how to draw JFK #I AM STRUGGLING #sobs on the floor

[xray-vex]

#edward teach #be nice to him he's having a hard fucking time #when all you want are snuggles but all you get are struggles #ofmd meme #ofmd #life's a hard sad death #and then you're dead #song lyric hours

[thirstydiglett]

Guys I am so tired. Teachers are not ok.

I have literal second graders saying the n-word and that’s not even the most pressing behavioral issue on my plate at the moment.

I was required to work an eleven hour day on Tuesday for no additional recompense. They didn’t even need me to be there.

I have a professional growth plan I have to finish by Friday and it’s gonna take at least two hours. I have NEVER had two uninterrupted hours at work since becoming a teacher.

I just found out I’m getting HALF A PAYCHECK tomorrow cuz HR fucked up and rent is due tomorrow and I’m already behind on my bills.

I explain assignments to my students and five seconds later they’re like “what are we supposed to be doing” like I didn’t JUST tell them.

I had a kid the other day SCREAMING that I was racist because I “never pull the black kids, only the Hispanic ones” which I AM AN ESL TEACHER OF COURSE I ONLY PULL THE KIDS WHO DONT SPEAK ENGLISH YET ALSO AT LEAST A THIRD OF MY HISPANIC STUDENTS ARE ALSO BLACK.

I am losing my mind here. I work with upwards of 60 students every day and NONE of them are getting the level of support they need. The good days are amazing but I can’t remember the last good day I had. I feel like an asshole for complaining because every other person at my school is going through it. I barely see my friends because I get home and am so exhausted that all I can do is watch one piece in my underwear. And I make significantly less than my friends who work from home and maybe do (by their own admission) two hours of work a day.

I just feel so disrespected by this entire profession. I don’t know how much longer I can go on like this

If anyone has words of support, I could really, really use it.

#if you have kids you need to take a good long look into their school because things are fucked UP right now #Diglett teaches #teaching #education #teachers are human #and we are fucking struggling

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

After that the daycare was mysteriously down one etch-a-sketch

(he has it kept on a shelf in his room for safekeeping)

#forgive how ugly this is I’m struggling out here bros #crying #readerbot #readerbot au #fnaf sun/moon x y/n #fnaf sun x y/n #fnaf sun x reader #repairbot reader #sun teaches readerbot how to draw <3 #or. yknow. tries to #he also keeps the attempt at a flower tho #fnaf au #doodles #sketches #bones of a rabbit fnaf #bones of a rabbit au #silly fluff

[kingsofgaytham]

i sometimes think about how one of the first things stede did upon waking up and meeting the charming stranger was inviting him into his secret closet and then in the same episode they not only swap clothes but exchange rings too

#please the symbolism is so cute #edpecially seeing that ed doesn't have his rings on after they surrender (are they in a bag? lost forever?) #stede's blue ring is tied to his sea-persona he only wears it as captain bonnet and takes it off when he goes back to mary #ed always wears his red ring (which i think ties with his red silk) except for when he gives it to stede #the red ring is almost a metaphor - for the Edward that struggles inside Blackbeard #it represents his humanity his need for a change and freedom #since he never puts in on bc he's sure stede left him i'm gonna need a scene with them putting on a fine outfit together #that probably wont happen but a girl can dream #and Stede notices the ring and puts it on Ed's finger #anyways the whole rings/sharing a cravat symbolism is fantastic and the costume design team did a phenomenal job #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate #edward teach #blackbeard #gentlebeard #our flag means death #ofmd #my post