Any Professors, Teachers or Educators out there?

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  • cheyeneinthesprings
    cheyeneinthesprings Posts: 46 Member
    8th Grade Math Teacher...this will be the end of my 18th year. Oh...and I just ate 3 oreo truffles and a few bites of cheese cake brought in for Teacher Appreciation Week. It's like...hey...teachers you should eat and get fat! :D
  • cheyeneinthesprings
    cheyeneinthesprings Posts: 46 Member
    smiles6428 wrote: »
    garystrickland357 wrote: »
    So think about this y'all - when you're worried about that one student or frustrated - you can go exercise or go eat the bag of Oreos. Which one is better? I know. I've done it too. If you find make the time to exercise your mental health will improve and I bet your eating habits will also. Find the time. I know about the grading, and the calls home, and the IEPs, and all that. But remember if you died tomorrow they'd have someone covering your class before your funeral. I don't mean to sound jaded because I'm not. It's just that you'll be a better teacher - and set a better example for your students by being healthy.

    What would you tell a student that was giving you 100 excuses for why the work didn't get done? Why are you using the same ones for not doing what you know needs to be done for you own health?

    So many good points here Gary. I think we all know exercise makes us better, it’s the getting into and sticking with a habit that can be tough for me in the face of stress. I am always a much better educator, supporter of students, and peer faculty when I’ve done any kind of exercise.

    But your points above are a good reality that we need to be showing students better work life balance. I constantly tell myself that the world will go on if people get upset that my grading or an email takes an extra day or so because I was taking care of myself first.

    Ok yes I love all of this....I always want to quit my diet or not work out...but then I'm telling the kids all day to keep trying and redo your work. I don't want to be the pot calling the kettle black.
  • IsETHome
    IsETHome Posts: 386 Member
    I teach, but Assoc. Professor for Univ of Phoenix online. I grade a lot on the weekend, so have to sit a lot. I also have another FT job. Sitting to grade takes up a lot of time.
  • garystrickland357
    garystrickland357 Posts: 598 Member
    cheyeneinthesprings wrote: »
    8th Grade Math Teacher...this will be the end of my 18th year. Oh...and I just ate 3 oreo truffles and a few bites of cheese cake brought in for Teacher Appreciation Week. It's like...hey...teachers you should eat and get fat! :D

    8th grade... Bless your heart. I taught 8th grade science for 10 years. Middle schoolers are special - you either love them or run away screaming. I loved them. Every day is an adventure for sure.
  • jlklem
    jlklem Posts: 259 Member
    College professor 11 years. Mental health counseling is my speciality. Been in the counseling field for 26 years.

    I built an entire indoor workout room to stay fit all year as I live in northern Wisconsin, so winter is stupid cold. The hard part is ignoring the feeling of tired after a long day. But tired is just a thing, it does not need to be listened to very often. But each to there own.

    Feel free to add me
  • mhetzel1983
    mhetzel1983 Posts: 18 Member
    Feel free to add me! Intermediate Reading Specialist (grades 3 - 6)
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    Assistant Professor here. Second year on the tenure track, fourth year on MFP. I lost 100 pounds and have been in maintenance for about 1.5 years.
  • ms_maruska
    ms_maruska Posts: 119 Member
    Teaching assistant at a university here & a PhD student. Trying to lose weight & write a sociology dissertation. Both going slow but steady :smile:
  • staticsplit
    staticsplit Posts: 538 Member
    I'm a creating writing lecturer for a masters programme. I'm in maintenance/recomp. I do a lot of mindless snacking while marking papers.
  • shanefcallahan22
    shanefcallahan22 Posts: 1 Member
    I'm a HS history teacher and wrestling/ tennis coach. I enjoy lifting (and eating) but I abhor cardio workouts. In my 20s and 30s I had a slight "inner tube" around my mid-section, but I'm now in my 40s and my inner tube is quite noticeable and embarrassing. Good luck fellow educators!
  • tccroston
    tccroston Posts: 34 Member
    I’m a technical training instructor and my classes are 9 hrs long (I give them an hour for lunch), and I commute at least an hour each way depending on traffic.

    I’ve been drinking about a gallon of water a day, and when I do snack, it’s usually some almonds I keep in the car for the drive home.

    My Dad was a music teacher for over 40 years and my sis is currently a principal. I find it ironic that I’m in front of a classroom because I swore up and down I never wanted to do that, because I know how hard y’all work!!!

    Feel free to add me, and keep up the great work that you do for those kids!
  • lg013
    lg013 Posts: 215 Member
    High school teacher here with hour commute each way...I have one week of summer left and I’ve killed it this summer...I don’t want to stop when the job starts again!
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