Speaker: Lance Raabe, Hybrid Blended Instructor
What do you hope teachers will take away from this course?
Lance Raabe: Hi, I'm Lance. I'm a Hybrid/Blended Learning instructor here at Teaching Channel. I get to lead a course called Living Your Happiest Life. And I think there are a few reasons why it has been very, very popular. The blended Zoom format of the course allows teachers from all over the country and all over the world to share their stories and know that we are on a very similar journey. We're all very honest when it comes to this course, teaching is hard, it's really hard and that's why thinking about positivity and happiness and more importantly, practicing it is so important. What I want teachers to know is that sometimes you can be a Tigger and sometimes it's ok to be an Eeyore, but there are great strategies to remember and follow in order to make teaching a happy rewarding experience.
What do you love about this course?
Lance Raabe: There are two specific things that I really love about this course. First, a part of the Zoom for this course includes a positivity quest where we all break away for a bit and spread positivity with others in our lives. It might be an email, it might be a text, a letter, an online post, something to pour some more positivity into the life lives of others. The course shows us that having a gift giving mindset fills the cups of others and in a lot of ways serves to overflow our own cups. And the second part of our Zoom experience that I really love is the laughing exercise and simply put we laugh for 30 seconds and it just feels good. I am convinced that many of the teachers in my course, they just laugh at me while I'm laughing, but that's ok. At least they're laughing.
