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20 Weeks To Go

Posted on February 7, 2011 by auburnchick

Another week is finished.  I now have 20 weeks to go until I am finished with my certification classes.

Last week was another busy one!

I thought I would give you a run-down of what my week looked like:

  • Monday
    • Instructional Strategies quiz
    • Foundations of Research-Based Practices in Reading quiz
    • Teaching Profession quiz
  • Tuesday
    • Instructional Strategies critical review (chapter summary/reflection/application)
    • Reply to another student’s review
  • Wednesday
    • Reading class’s critical review
    • Reply to another student’s review
  • Thursday
    • Teaching Profession research topic #1
    • Reply to another student
    • Teaching Profession research topic #2
    • Reply to another student
  • Friday
    • Reading class observation
    • Observation Summary form
    • Debrief form
    • Instructional Notebook – Comprehension
    • Instructional Notebook – Vocabulary
    • Feedback on assignment from last week’s Instructional Strategies class:  must resubmit
  • Saturday
    • Monthly in-class sessions at the college all day
    • Resubmitted Instructional Strategies formative quiz assignment
    • Worked on summative assignment rubric for Instructional Strategies class
    • Cried because I felt overwhelmed and couldn’t sit and watch tv and laugh while the Mr. got to
  • Sunday
    • Finish rubric after church
    • Done with all assignments for the week

Yes, folks.

That is what I did last week.

On top of teaching my own classes.

Not only that, but each day at lunch, I studied for my General Knowledge Test.  I am working on the math section because that is where I struggle the most.  Thus far, the school’s math teacher and three students have taught me various math concepts.

I have felt a lot like Laura Ingalls.  Did you see the episode of Little House on the Prairie when she had failed her teacher examination, so she studied really hard for the second time she would take it.

Oops.

Apparently she’s studying biology with Almanzo in that picture!  😉

She carried books with her everywhere.  She read as she milked cows and cooked.  Everywhere she went, she had a book in her face.

That is me right now.

The bathroom is no exception.

TMI?

Who cares.

We all do it.

If I could take a book in the shower with me, I would.

This is how it will be for 20 more weeks.

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