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This website offers a great explanation of what a workout split is and the different types of splits you may want to try. Workout Splits.
Additionally, with the permission of my coach, I uploaded my workout schedule that I did to prepare for Westerns. You will see that it is the same workouts over and over again but the RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion) changes by increasing each week to reach bigger numbers.
With this blog post, I wanted to question what benefits chatgpt has to offer for teachers.
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ChatGPT can benefit teachers in various aspects of their daily lives:
Overall, ChatGPT can serve as a valuable companion for teachers, offering assistance, support, and resources to enhance their teaching effectiveness, professional development, and overall well-being in their daily lives.
ChatGPT, prompt “In what ways can chatgpt benefit and help in teachers’ daily life?”, February 15, 2024, OpenAI, https://chat.openai.com.
After reading what chatgpt had to say I would also agree with its points. Personally as a teacher as see chat and AI being helpful in time-consuming tasks that don’t require personalization. Additionally, I find chatgpt a great place to give example lessons that maybe you would use. Still, it can be nice for a new teacher to see an example and then be able to build a new example maybe taking aspects or simply using it as a place to start your creative process and allow for it to aid in the spark of your own ideas.
I wanted to further see what chatgpt could do for me as a teacher, so I asked it to make me a grade 3 spelling test and practice page. This was super cool to see be done as this is a simple task that could be time-consuming as a new teacher if you don’t already have pre-made sheets from past years and Chat was able to make it in seconds. Watching this happen was incredibly cool and good for my future career.
Grade 3 Spelling Test:
Instructions for Students:
Grade 3 Spelling Practice Page:
Write each spelling word three times:
Instructions for Students:
Happy practicing!
ChatGPT, prompt “create a grade 3 spelling test and simple practise page”, February 15, 2024, OpenAI, https://chat.openai.com.
Additionally, I wanted to try the same idea but with the numbers side of things because I often see chatgpt used for writing and words but I don’t see the use of numbers as often. Same with the words just like that it was able to create a resource for me.
Grade 1 Math Test: Addition and Subtraction
Part 1: Addition
Part 2: Subtraction
Instructions for Students:
Grade 1 Math Practice Page: Addition and Subtraction
Addition Practice:
Subtraction Practice:
Instructions for Students:
Happy practicing!
ChatGPT, prompt “create a grade 1 math test on addition and subtraction with a simple practise page”, February 15, 2024, OpenAI, https://chat.openai.com.
Today you will learn the 3 lifts that are done in powerlifting competitions: squat, bench and deadlift. Click on any of the videos below to learn!!
This week we got the opportunity to explore graphics. I believe graphics can benefit me as a teacher as I can create worksheets, and interactive slides and even show 3D models. Graphics can also provide visual elements to words or steps to help to create engaging lessons. The two main graphic resources I will use in the future are PowerPoint and Canva. Today I used Canva to create a little Valentine’s morning worksheet that I could give to my students immediately upon arrival to encourage quiet independent work time to start the day. Being able to have the skill to create my own work is super beneficial as lots of teachers sell little things like this but I was able to create this little worksheet in about 15 minutes very easily, along with this routine will help give my class structure and peace in the morning. Additionally using and creating graphics is a great skill to pass on and teach my students. They could create slides of their summer, an infographic from research they did, and even try to create their own worksheets or games.
Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash
Powerlifting is a sport that involves three lifts to be performed by the athlete. The three lifts are squat, bench, and deadlift. During a competition, you get three attempts at each lift and must get at least ⅓ attempts to not get disqualified. Typically an athlete would start with something they know they can for sure do, then something that is close to or matching their personal best, then with the last attempt go all out and try to hit a new personal best. The athletes work hard in the off-season doing workouts and training that are growing muscles or specifically targeting to improve the compound lifts (squat, bench, deadlift).
I am working towards and going to a regional competition for the western side of Canada. In early March I will travel to Saskatwen to compete at Westerns. To compete in powerlifting in Canada you are a part of the CPU Canadian Powerlifting Union, having a membership allows athletes to compete anywhere in Canada. Along with being a part of the CPU we are under the IPF International Powerlifting Federation that is the rules and standards to compete internationally and in Canada. The CPU follows the set rules by the IPF so that when athletes go to compete World Wide they are used to the standards that will be used at those competitions.
Photo by Seth Doyle on Unsplash
Videos can be used to support learners in many ways. Some of my favourite ideas are demonstrations/instructions, real-world examples, and accessibility and inclusivity in your classroom. You could use a video to help teach math, the video would explain how to do a math problem slowly step by step. This video then can be paused and broken down further by you as the teacher or even sent home to become a resource for parents or students on how to do the equations. Also, videos are great resources to show students real-life examples or experiences. This can allow students to learn better visually and understand more places in the world, or incorporate different interviews or daily life with professionals in any given field. Personally, my most appreciated tool that video helps within a classroom is for allowing great accessibility and inclusivity to all students. Lots of videos can have transcripts for kids to read or even be changed into different languages. Along with connecting to the first, having those options of stopping the video, going back and rewatching a part of a lesson and visually being able to see it are big aspects that help make the lesson more accessible to more learners.
If you click HERE it will lead you to a video I edited for my personal inquiry to show the improvement in my lifts from my first powerlifting competition and more recent one.
Throughout my journey of powerlifting, I have competed in 3 different competitions. I did two local meets here in Victoria called Victoria Barbell III and Victoria Barbell IV in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Provincial Championship in 2023. In just one year of competing my lifts have improved and grown. The bar graph above shows how my lifts have improved since the first competition. After Westerns, I plan to repost this graph with updated numbers. Below is an edited video comparing my first time competing at Victoria Barbell III in November 2022 and my most recent competition at Victoria Barbell IV in November 2023.
Through this reflection on Jesse’s presentation, I will be using the what, ‘so what’, and ‘now what’ approaches.
What did you take away from the session?
This session was very eye-opening on the rules and professional standards with social media. I feel like I’ve heard similar presentations before and always found them intriguing but it was different listening this time, as I was listening with the mindset of a future educator. I took away that our social media and our digital footprint can have a big impact on our future careers. I already had an experience relating to this. I had sent my resume to work at 2 dance studios here in Victoria, and before I even got a response back to the email both studios followed my Instagram. This moment truly showed me the impact our social media can have on our careers.
So what does this mean for your future career as an educator?
For my future career as an educator, it means that I have a certain level of professionalism that needs to be met with the use of my social media. This level is meant to not only benefit my personal life but also a required guideline that will be provided by my district. As an educator I will be cautious with my social media but more intensely cautious at the safety of my students. I will be sure to never store any student information in an unsafe place or take any pictures of students without student and parent consent.
Now what will you do based on the information provided?
After Jesse’s presentation, I have now made my main Instagram account private, for the safety of my personal life. Additionally, I had some questions that came up during my search for my digital footprint that also relate to my inquiry. I have an account for gym/exercise content. Through this account health, fitness and being strong is the main focus, I use the account to post my progress or workouts for others to try. The part I question is due to the idea of what my exercise wear is. At the gym, I would typically wear some shorts and a T-shirt or sports bra. I’m curious when I start teaching will the account be an issue? Although maybe I wouldn’t wear biker shorts and a sports bra to work, this is the outfit I’m wearing in the gym. If a parent were to come to the gym the outfits I have on my Instagram are what they would see me in. So I wonder if it would be a problem even though my account’s main focus is health and fitness and women being strong.
My entire life I have been a competitive dancer, but then COVID shut the whole world down. Now after COVID-19, we were back at school in September of 2020. I had been doing extremely well with online learning so the in-person classes were a challenge. I ended up dropping most of my classes at school and taking them through an online program where I was able to move at my pace which was typically faster than what was being done at school. This online school ended up working well for me and I was even able to graduate early, but that is not what we’re talking about right now.
When I first started online courses I was very overwhelmed as it was different then highschool as I was able to see and know all of the work I needed to do. So when I was faced with this I became very stressed with school. I would get up extremely early and stay up late working on school because at the time I hadn’t figured out a good method or routine. I was so stressed I had lost weight and spent many days crying due to the stress of school. It got to the point where my mom had to make a rule that I was only going to be doing school during the hours that other students are in school so 9-3. I was so stressed that I was still waking up at around 6 am naturally. When she set this rule she suggested that if I was waking up early to try doing some exercise or yoga in the morning until it was school hours. At this point, I was desperate to distract my mind from school so I did. This was when my love for fitness and working out began, it was after that day that working out became an essential stress reliever in my life.
I spent the first 2 years of my fitness journey still competing in dance, doing around 15 hours of dance a week along with getting up in the morning to work out. The gyms were still not fully open at this time as well and I was too nervous to go in a public gym, so my dad built me a squat rack and bench press out of wood and bought some weights off the Facebook marketplace. After graduating high school I fell more and more in love with the gym and decided I wanted to try powerlifting since I was already incorporating most of the lifts within my workouts. Additionally, I thought this was the best time as I was no longer going to be competing in dance. So in the late summer of 2022, I decided to get a coach. My coach is Lily Riggs, she holds records in Canada and has also competed for Team Canada at the World and North American championships. From there, I started to focus on powerlifting and then even did my first competition in November of 2022. At this competition, I was able to gain a provincial record and win in my weight class.
Fast forward to today, I have competed in 3 competitions, one of them being provincials. Now I am making my way to a Regional competition to help qualify for Nationals that is happening in September of 2024. My ultimate goal would be to compete for Team Canada at the World Championship or in the Common Wealth Games. It is always crazy for me to think that what was once just a stress reliever became a sport I love and cherish, where I can continue to grow and dream.
Here are some pictures from dance and a picture of me and my coach at a recent competition I did in November. Below are some videos in my very first ghetto gym that my dad built for me!
A picture of my coach just killing it on the World Championship platform.
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