AuburnChick's Adventures

No, my title doesn’t refer to the number of weeks left in this school year.

What that number refers to is the number of weeks I have left in my certification program.

I decided that, since I derive so much pleasure from watching as the number of car payments goes down each month, I might feel the same type of happiness by counting off my weeks of classes.    Everyone needs to see light at the end of whatever tunnels they are traveling down, though I don’t even see a glimmer yet.

Observe the picture below…

That, my friends, is how I spent my long weekend.  The only thing that changed throughout those three days were the books that kept me company on the couch.

I can already see that I am going to learn a TON of stuff.  In fact, after only one week of classes and assignments, I can honestly say that I am already going to be a different and better teacher.

I now have a teaching philosophy to call my own.  I now understand how to select standards for the units I will teach, and how to create objectives that match the standards.

I also understand the terms phonemic awareness and phonics, and that they are not the same thing!

Oh yeah.  I’m learning a lot.

And so the countdown continues…

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