TRANSCRIPT: 3 Tips for Bringing Mindfulness into Your Classroom (feat. Jodie Kleymeer from Lake Shore Public Schools)
KKristen CrainMar 22, 2022 at 6:56 pm53min
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00:00Jodie
If you go around constantly pretending that everything is sunshine and roses, you are not at all processing and facing some of the things that are going to come back to haunt you and your mental health. So to me, truth is how you straddle that line between positivity and toxic positivity. If people ask me how I'm doing and I'm having a rough day, I tell them I'm having a rough day. I'm honest about it. I think where people get confused is, they feel like you can't tell the truth that you're having a rough day and that is false. The thing of it is, you don't want to just dwell on it. That's where you can get into that negative tivity and that holds you back. If you're going to be honest about what your emotion is or what you're feeling at that moment. That leaves you room to process that emotion. Effectively.
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01:08Nikki
I'm Nikki Herta. And this is bright stories of hope and innovation in Michigan classrooms, a podcast where we celebrate our state's educators and explore the future of learning. Bright is brought to you in part by Meemic insurance company, insuring the educational community for more than 70 years, teachers and school employees visit meemic.com/quote. To see how much you can save these episode of bright I chat with Jody claimair, a media specialist for Lake Shore public schools who teaches a help desk class for students. Jody shares her own journey and discovering mindfulness in the midst of the pandemic explores the relationship between mindfulness positivity and mental health and shares three tips for bringing mindfulness into the classroom. All right, Jodie. Well, it's a pleasure to have you on the BRIGHT podcast today. Thank you so much for joining me.
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02:07Jodie
Oh, thank you, Nikki, this is very exciting.
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02:10Nikki
Yay. We've been kicking off the season by asking everybody, can you tell me about the most interesting project that you're doing right now at your school? And specifically in your, your media center there?
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02:25Jodie
Yes. So one of the things that some of my veteran students are doing is using a lot of the different Google's applied skills modules. And so they're doing fun things like making these little talk bots and programming them and learning about how to not just create like a safe password, but running it through all these different detectors and seeing if this one can get broken. And yeah, so they're just doing some really fun stuff that Google has pre made for a classroom and, and, and they're having a blast at
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03:09Nikki
it. What kind of skills do you feel like that imparts to the students? You know, having experienced with that?
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