Being too Busy to Think




The BIG Issue: Exhausted Teachers cannot reform
For so many reasons most teachers I talk to say that they are busy. Busier year after year.  

 Burnout
Burnout often affects people in helping professions: lawyers, doctors, social workers, managers and teachers, among others. For teachers, working with students means constantly trying to respond to their needs while simultaneously meeting the various demands of the organisation. When teachers feel that there is a mismatch between all these demands and the available resources they have for coping with them, stress is induced. The usual culprits mentioned are: lack of time, ideas, materials, expertise and support.
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 This is not unusual

  • Almost half of new teachers leave the profession in their first year because of an excessive workload and 'exhausted and stressed colleagues', a union leader has warned.
  • The number has tripled in six years, according to an analysis of figures by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
  • The most recent statistics show that in 2011, around 10,800 newly-qualified teachers did not take up a teaching post – up from 3,600 in 2005. 
  • Around 40 per cent of newly-qualified teachers were not in the classroom after a year in 2011 – compared to 20 per cent in 2005.
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Teaching Is The Most Exhausting Job I've Had
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Reform Failure
‘... it is more difficult to find evidence that classrooms have improved or even fundamentally changed as a result of the many reform initiatives; and indeed the persistent failure of educational change is a common theme in the literature (Sarason 1990, Fullan 1993, Cuban 1998, Spillane 1999) (Wallace 2011).

 Learning from Failure
Can schools' learn from failures to reform, and embrace a society that requires citizens to have the skills and capacities to adapt and change. 
OR
Have schools resigned to the continuation of failure and are inept to reform due to teacher fatigue?

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Trim Circumnavigated  Adaptive Suitable for service Faithful and affectionate But stolen and eaten

From the gutters  Time well spent
Forever trying to make it Curious, creative, and nontraditional  Independent and alert
To knowing The battles that need to be fought To whom it must be Focused on predictive outcomes By mimicking and anticipating their actions


The explorer of the unknown The explorer of the unconscious The explorer of creativity
In our ordinary life In our commonality In our common cause for boredom
In all of the mindless small tasks That are too numerous  To be named 
Find your prey Follow it Patiently wait Catch it

Place As cold as the moon And in the balance The importance of being present Intrust and intelligence
Need Never to be left alone Feeling relaxed Showing affection 
Objective Remove all unwanted behaviors Through repeated iterations

Faithful and affectionate Never to be left alone In our ordinary life Forever trying to make it



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Keres Relic
Of all creations Of all exemplar behaviors We listen out for fabulous stories Until what has always been can no longer be ignored Until we are in harmony with divinity  Without the need to clarify Just young again Smart and creative

Caught between two giants Promising to change the world Performing outstanding feats With irrepressible force Almighty without precedence
They have reconditioned our dimension From living without fear To living in fear Adaptable on the breaking point This is the brighter place

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Of Powerful Monsters
Provides Opportunities
The dramatic rise and falls Of powerful monsters Provides Opportunities



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Digital Literacy Tools

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This is a list of on-line tools that can be used in education. It is an extensive list with many ways of application. The list is not complete.

Bookmarking Tools
Clip Clip www.clipclip.com
-> ClipClip is, essentially, a social bookmarking tool that allows you to save and collect the sites and stuff you treasure most.
you can ‘clip’ pictures, applications, and paragraphs without having to take from the whole website itself.
ClipClip works, more or less, as your own personal scrapbook.

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us
-> Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community -
Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return
Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web

Diigo www.diigo.com
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Sister 1 Keres
Disruption
Ownership of activity Prescribed by acceptable transactions
All is in flux Resulting in frustration And redefining  What is a fully functioning person
New base-line violations and agreements To deal with unconscious reaction and reasoned response Every interaction is observed To satisfy the needs of commercial interest
There is no snap-back This is the new socio-economic order Of artificial intelligence, automation, and surveillance
Those who are left behind Will be punished by poverty By systems that are impenetrable and dehumanizing

If you want to survive, stay away From their dominance and contagion  From their wandering battlefields As they scavenge and feed on loss Feeding on their rotten victories

They elicit suspicion  Then once we are one from each other  They feed on the socially isolated By creating closed loops Fall and you are theirs


In other words Until you are dragged by the feet through their carnage

Sister One Keres Disruption: Video 




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Of free choice Within my confinements  Restricted by rules of consumption  I see only windows and reflections
In the twilight I am doing it I am trying to reach Beyond my opportunities

Thinking thoughts, not for consumption Disturbing impulsive thoughts Those darker imaginings Those emergent creative powers Repress them Keep them secret



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The Shopping Centre
Not knowing whether to be scared or to be content Make your judgment Halo or devil 
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Our hell on earth Permitting the dead to guide our fear and vision 


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An Ambitious Artist Cover When pressed for living My skin is my barrier
By John Bennett  JJFBbennett


In 1983 I moved from Melbourne  with my love Brenda to Poowong To start my painting career
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An artistic response to the perceived narrative and the clues that impact on augmenting a self-sealing consciousness. 
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