Emotional Safety

2 thoughts on “Emotional Safety”

1. Kate Taluga

   July 4, 2020 at 5:54 am

   I would also suggest that emotional safety comes in how we actually feel about our students. If your inner vibe is They are a bunch of priveliged little faunteroy they will read that off you. It is all about the vibes you put out

   While teaching is often performance work, our bodies, gestures, and face along with vocal tone tell all, they have to match our energy. Otherwise the audience reads we are just tooting our own horn. False energy match up means you the teacher are not invested in them as the student and they won’t invest in you.

   That is not there in televised form unless you are an excellent actor and have the right music playing to give another advantage of to support the subliminal message of what the energy is and what is happening.

   I get why teachers don’t want to video themselves. It is easier to go around self assessing what we thought we did rather than seeing what we did. And many of us are not confident about what we are doing in our own skins much less have a viable record of that floating around forever for anyone to find.

   So I am interested in what the learning outcomes will be in a world where it is all about internet delivery of content. I am afraid only the really motivated will survive. But that is the in person results as well.

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2. Ben Slavic

   July 4, 2020 at 11:11 am

   Indeed, will the profession itself even survive in the new world order?

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