Author: Claire Maria Ford

• Wait, wait, kiss: the blurt struggle is real!

  Teachers are not perfect. Even the best of us find ourselves struggling with the nasty growing slithery sensation of anxiety building up during a class. And then that awful moment, when it’s just too much and you blurt out some terribly inappropriate comment and dart off of the lesson plan path just because the discomfort…

  Claire Maria Ford

  June 8, 2020

  Mindfulness

• One Crisis, Three Questions

  

  Going into Week 8 of confinement, how’s the morale? I don’t know for you, but for me it’s been such a roller-coaster of emotions! Sometimes, I feel short-tempered and irritable (especially when watching the news or reading other people’s reactions to government decisions). Then I swing to frustration at not being able to go running…

  Claire Maria Ford

  May 1, 2020

  confinement, covid19, growth mindset, new world, personal development, self-care, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  celebrations, confinement, learning, mental health, online teaching, pema chodron, quanrantine, reflections, teachers, teaching; esl, transitions

• Clarity in confinement?

  

  It’s important to say things as they are. Love is the opposite of avoidance. And so, it is important to be able to say things as they are, beginning with our fears. (Boris Sirbey) I read that piece of wisdom this morning in a LinkedIn article entitled Le hamster épris de ciel bleu (The Hamster…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 10, 2020

  Boris Sirbey, connecting, covid19, Culture, esl, failure, family, family life, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, initiative, leadership, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, progress, quarantine, responsibility, self-care, stress management, teaching, workplace wellbeing

  brené brown