TogsTech

Part 10 – The Ease of a Musicians Mind

Welcome to the TENTH blog back!!!! This week James Humberstone spoke to use about a series of wellbeing bits and pieces this week, discussing how to keep on top of our lives.

TogsTips

Did you know a study was taken of a group of people in a workplace. One group were asked to leave their emails on while they worked, while the other group were asked to close it and mute it. These were the results:

• The people that left their emails on during work had a higher state of alert and also shared a higher resting heart rate while working
• The people who had their emails turned off found that they had fewer stressful and time-wasting situations happen also.
• Finally, after 5 days, participants showed to have more natural heart rates after cutting off email

TogsTeach

We are much more available to our students and their parents than many people have been in the past. Communication between teachers and parents was more difficult years ago; the standard process was:

• Parent would communicate to the Music secretary
• They would then take/leave a message to pass onto you
• When you had time you would call back or physically write back a letter/note to the family

Now however the process is a bit different:

• Apps have been created which can follow the work of student
• Emailing is a crucial method of contact between student and teacher
• Teacher even encourage direct parent communication

GETTING THINGS DONE

A process of work which is awesome to help guide an individual to get some work done:

This process to me makes TONS of sense and although it may be hard to engage with immediately, I think over time I’m going to aim to engage in this style of workflow.