I am choosing to focus my Free Inquiry project on health & wellness, particularly on how to create and maintain healthy habits and lives. The reason I chose this as my Inquiry project is because many teachers experience burn out or exhaustion at some point in their careers. In order to show up as the best educators we can it is so important that we take care of ourselves to limit this from happening. My goal for this project is to create a resource for myself and other current or future teachers to help establish and maintain healthy habits and lifestyles in and outside of the classroom. I plan to share knowledge and information on all things health and wellness, including content on emotional regulation and teaching children how to understand and cope with their feelings. Emotional regulation is something that I am very passionate about teaching and I believe it is something that not only children but adults can benefit learning about as well. I also will share content on goal setting and habit tracking to encourage myself and others to show up for yourself to be the best person you can.
I hope that at the end of this Inquiry project I have been able to develop and maintain self care goals I’ve set out for myself, learnt more about emotional regulation for students and teachers, and created a blog that is filled with all kinds of resources that can help me with my teaching career.