Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id NAA12424; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:39:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:39:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20000319183512.6174.qmail@web902.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jan Stotts <jdstotts@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:903] Re: Time constraints X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: RO Content-Length: 3611 Lines: 88 Jeanette, You have my sympathy. It is very true that EFF is important and that most of what adult educators do is done for love and not money. However, none of this gives anyone or anything the right to more of your time than you have to spend. Running yourself ragged over EFF or anything else is definitely counter-productive. It can't help but reduce the quality of the effort that you give, and in the long run can lead to burnout. It has probably been the cause of more good teachers leaving adult education that any other factor. I would suggest taking a very good look at your time management. Most people study time management in order to cram more stuff into their lives. I would suggest doing the opposite. Look at the amount of time that you have for your family and yourself, particularly yourself. Do you have any time for quiet reflection and the kind of reading that leads to personal, not professional, growth? Do you feel frantic or terminally tired? Do you have time to exercise? Are you getting enough sleep? If not, there are choices to be made that only you can make, but remember, taking care of yourself is not selfish. It won't make any difference whether or not you implement EFF, if you are too tired to bring the essential spark, the unique person that you are to the class. Take care of yourself, please. Jan Stotts --- SondraGay@aol.com wrote: > Here it is Sunday afternoon, and I am not surprised that this is the > only > time I have to look at this list...Even the National Director of EFF > has to > work overtime to keep up with EFF...and like all of you/us, never > quite feel > caught up with everything this makes me think of... > > What keeps me going is, like Sue, Jeanette, and most of us, the > vision of an > adult learning system that is truly framed around learner needs [in a > big > picture way]...a full time system, with full-time staff, paid for > prep time > and professional development time as well as teaching time, so that > we can > provide the best possible learning opportunities to adults who come > to gain > the skills and knowledge they need to take the next steps in their > lives. A > system that counts results like these, that matter in people's lives. > > I wish we could have the resources that "system reform" entails all > at once, > right now, so we could do it right, right from the start. Instead, > we do > this important work with too little money, and too few resources. > > What we have, however, is the vision, and the will to change to > meet that > vision...and this is what has brought us this far...As more and more > practitioners use EFF and see that it works, and talk to their > funders about > the kinds of differences EFF makes, and urge their state and federal > > adminstrators to adopt EFF friendly guidelines for staffing, and > curriculum > and reporting we will continue to move closer to having sufficient > resources > to do the kind of work that can produce the kind of changes that > matter -- to > us and our students. > > Please do all continue to write about what is happening in your > programs. If > you have data that shows improved retention/persistence, or other > kinds of > improved learner results, please share them too -- or send them to me > at > NIFL. It will help me assemble the accountability information I need > to > continue to advance EFF at the policy level. > > Thanks for all you do, > Sondra Stein > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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