AuburnChick's Adventures

With two weeks left to go in my teaching certification program, things are starting to slow down, kind-of.

Last week, Chicky was very sick.  I had very little sleep the first part of the week, so I lost two days of work.  I simply could not think.

By Tuesday, Chicky was starting to feel a teensy bit better, so she went to work.  I got in the “zone” and started working on one of the toughest assignments of my problem-based learning course.  For this assignment, we, the teacher candidates, had to put ourselves in our students’ roles and devise two solutions and four justifications for the problem our lesson plan encapsulated.  For me, this meant coming up with two different ways to help displaced hurricane victims assimilate into the school system.

I am so thankful that I took good notes during the early part of this assignment.  Research is my thing, and early on, the creative juices had flowed.  Like a writer with a bunch of ideas floating around, I had captured my thoughts into a notebook.  This served me well for this assignment.

Still, I had to think.

It was hard.

Chicky came home from work, feeling a little puny.  I remember offering her something to drink.

An hour later, Chicky looked at me and said, “Well, Mama, I was only at work one day, and you’ve already forgotten about me.”

I had been deep in the throes of the assignment and had completely forgotten to get her drink!

That’s how EPI works.

With my brain finally engaged again, I completed that big assignment.

My wonderful instructor, Ms. A., gave me feedback almost immediately.  I had done everything perfectly and did not have to resubmit anything!

Happy Dance!

Hence, I had the green light to work on the FINAL two assignments for the course!

Well, I got down to work and finished those assignments, which are actually not due until this coming Sunday, a full week and three days early.

Cha Ching!

I still had two itsy bitsy assignments to go.

One was for my Diversity class.

I was antsy.  I could not do my assignment until someone else did the assignment too.  I needed to respond to someone’s posting.

I did what all anal people do.

I emailed my group members, praised them for the good work they’ve been doing, and promptly asked them to turn in this assignment early so I could finish this class.

Yes, I am rather brazen, am I not?

Well, one of the gals immediately responded by posting her assignment…less than thirty minutes later!

See, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.  😉

So, I posted my response.

I had one left to go.

I had one more posting to respond to in my problem-based learning class.  About the time I finished my other response, someone had posted the assignment in my PBL class.

Yay!  I responded to it and then sat back in relief.

My Classroom Management teacher had sent me an email telling me that my final two assignments were good to go, so I was officially done with that class too.

At this point, I had done all I could do.

I am currently in a state of flux.  I am awaiting feedback on four assignments.  I may still need to tweak my assignments to get full points, and you know I will because it’s all about perfection for me.  😉

For now, I am free.

Kind of.

While I wait for the feedback, I am studying for my final State test.

Meanwhile, I continue my countdown…t-minus two weeks and counting…

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