@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 4:53

Perception & Judgement

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I feel validated as a person because I think I'm a little bit self critical sometimes and probably a little insecure about how well I'm doing with groups of teenagers who wouldn't be. They're complex and man, I'm so grateful and overall and touched that they not only like me, I don't need them to like me, but it's nice. But also that I think I'm a really good teacher. I feel sorry for the other teachers

#teaching #teenagers #selfawareness

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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Shethย ยทย 4:57

@GeorgieDee

And of course, growing up made me realize that wasn't the case. I was absolutely wrong. My family was extremely s*****. Not talking about the parents. I mean, yeah, not talking about them for now, but yeah. So sexist, like, at one point, the paternal grandmother tried to poison me because I'm a girl, and there's literally, like, no girls in our family for seven generations, and it was a thing
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 4:15

@Binati_Sheth YES Laugh please! Embrace the Light & Shade

Okay, so I've come out the other end of the meat grinder of realization, epiphanies and therapy, and I had to go through all the facing the negative stuff and putting boundaries in and separating myself from some people in my family. But I still can now look back, I've got to the place where I can appreciate the positive. It's still positive. You still had amazing experiences. It doesn't matter that you had Rs1, sweetie. You still loved them. They were still amazing
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@Her_Sisu
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisuย ยทย 4:56
And then you're like never mind, I have a meeting. And so I said, well, what would help look like? And they said instead of saying I could help, put me where you need me. Could you instead just say I have 2 hours where I can help, and I can do the following task or just tell us the time frame, and then we can think through the tasks to give you. And it was so insightful in that moment
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 1:37

@Her_Sisu Communication yes!

But no situation is perfect, right? It's like my students, they're sure as h*** not perfect, and nor am I, but something beautiful still came out of it. Thanks for your contribution. Spot on. That's all about perception and judgment, right?
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@SeekingPlumb

@GeorgieDee

This is extremely predictable but I would say that my perceptions and judgment of self for nearly my entire life were stuck in that bubble of feedback and things people said or reactions they had to me or the way I understood the world to be and so on. And then I learned I am autistic and suddenly that shifted everything. The lenses I perceived things through or how I pieced things together and suddenly I was not a person who had a litany of moral and personal failings
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 2:37

@SeekingPlumb

And I think the example of the kids giving the last base amazing good behavior back to Georgia D in that last class is really an example of how things can evolve from what you think is true to how people decide to give you what the truth is for them
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 4:41

@DBPardes @SeekingPlumb Positive Feedback

And the irony of that is, when people see me do it for myself, they think, Therefore, I need nothing else in a classroom. I don't expect a group of highly dysfunctional, problematic teenagers who have terrible, terrible mental health issues, learning disabilities, and dysfunctional home lives to give me positive strokes. It's not the transaction. The transaction is that I'm the teacher and I give them positive strokes so that they can learn it's
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 2:58

@GeorgieDee

I'm a good friend and I'm learning more and more how to choose friends better that really are able to just meet me there, because it's so joyous when both people are like that. It's like the best thing in the world. And I don't know you as well as I would if I knew you in the real world, probably, and had time with you
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 0:01

@DBPardes Thanks Deb. I DO feel appreciated โค๏ธ

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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Shethย ยทย 4:59

@GeorgieDee

Satire is one of my favorite genres because you cannot satirize something unless it is truly like objectionable, disgusting, abhorrent, hateful, etcetera, etcetera. It has to be something supremely negative or supremely scary or something you wish to confront or whatever, and then you invert the power it has over you. Right. So I think that is why I like to laugh at things of this sort
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 4:47

@Binati_Sheth Satire yes!

And that's one of the beautiful things I love about humor. I'm not sure if it's specifically satire, but when I tell a story or a joke, I'll exaggerate certain elements to really point out the truth underneath it that nobody wants to look at. So I kind of think of it as a sandwich approach to delivering some experiences in life that people are too afraid to talk about or recognize. You know, the sandwich approach. Positive, negative, positive
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@Lakshya.aa
Lakshya Bhatia
@Lakshya.aaย ยทย 1:25
But after a few days, one of my friends told me that everybody there loved you and they were like, blown off how cool you were, how nice you were as a person. It was quite buried out, like, how can this even happen? I still don't understand. How did that happen? So well? Yes, perception can be really deceptive
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 2:34

@Lakshya.aa The Elusive Realities

It doesn't mean anything. It just means that we had a really great conversation at that time, in that moment that lasted for 3 hours. And in brackets by the way, I have those conversations with other people. You're not special. Those conversations happen for me quite often. So I'm not going to go marrying everybody that I have a three hour conversation with on the phone just because it happened. But that guy's reality
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Shethย ยทย 5:00

@GeorgieDee

And then when people laugh at that and they're like, oh, this is what I was laughing at, it makes you think. It doesn't question your opinions or it doesn't state your opinion to be wrong or inferior. It just holds a mirror. Whereas sarcasm straight out of the bat is like, oh, yeah, you're stupid. I'm not. Shut up. You know, that type of thing. So I'll share something personal
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@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 0:44

@Binati_Sheth instagram is georgiedee67

Thanks for naughty. I just woke up, so I'm not going to talk much because this is gonna happen. Oh, idea. Sorry. Apologies. I love that you're writing that book. Yeah. One of my things I try not to do is be too angry with men, because the situation in the world with gender drives me nuts. So I think it's amazing that you are using satellites to do that. Yeah, I think it's dull
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@topgold
Bernie Goldbach
@topgoldย ยทย 2:06

@georgiedee my current recalcitrants

Hey, Georgie. It's Bernie in Ireland. I am behind Dialing into Swells because I am working with a group of recalcitrants students who were forged during covet, and perhaps they were given too much bubble wrap, so they're not used to hearing what they have to do, being given time to do it with a clear suspense and Q and a FAQ session to proceed and then doing the work. So we work like you probably work in a lab based environment for part of the timetable
@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeย ยทย 1:38

@topgold Staggered assessment submission with Hand held feedback

So he voluntarily, independently separated from the dominant culture of his cleat. So that's one way, which is a bit of strong arming. The other suggestions I had for getting students to complete assessments correctly, I put into a private message to you because you replied to me there, and it was about staggered assessment submission with one on one feedback and edits support. So go have a listen to that particular tactic that we use with students who are struggling. It's a bit of hand holding
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