Starting with the Self & Noticing Classroom Procedures and Norms
Starting with the Self This blog post is relevant to the assignment, but may not be perfectly aligned. It is not contextually related to any of the three centering resources provided. I am going to write, for the moment, about irony and self-care. And this will be more personal than I would have been otherwise. My blog is called The Joyful Learner. I was not a joyful learner these past two weeks. I spent Wednesday 9/30/20 in the chemo infusion lab. The next 10 days I learned what a chemo fog or chemo brain was. It was not my first infusion, but I had never been so adversely affected. I could not organize myself and prioritize MNGOT assignments. I couldn’t concentrate. I spent a considerable number of hours sitting down to do work. Nothing came of the effort. That is, except for a feeling that attempting to get my work done was only making things worse!!!! Isn’t that ironic???? Through this odd, otherworldly experience I was reminded of something very important about cultivating a pr