On Wednesday night, I worked my fingers to the bone and turned in my final two assignments for my first ESOL class. This is one of five classes I have to take to obtain the second certification I need to be considered fully qualified to teach Intensive Reading.
My instructor, a fabulous woman who, up to that point, had provided feedback a mere hours after I’d submitted every other assignment, did not let me down.
During my planning period on Thursday, I checked the status of those assignments and was relieved and thankful to discover that both had been approved!! Whew! Part of the ninth assignment had taken me a little while to think through, and I had not been entirely confident that I wouldn’t have to redo it.
I happily printed out my certificate…
I had completed ten weeks’ worth of assignments in ten days.
Overachieve much?
Yep.
BUT…
God meant it for good because on Tuesday, I’d received an email from the lady in charge of scheduling the practicum for the other certification program I’m going through, and the final class offered this school year begins on the 18th. That’s Monday, folks!
I responded immediately that I wanted to sign up for the class.
If you’d asked me a couple of months ago if I thought I was going to be able to finish my Reading Endorsement before the end of the year, I would have said no, and that I didn’t want to overstress myself with FCAT coming in April.
I do feel, however, that this is the right time.
The practicum involves writing three more hellacious lesson plans (the same kinds that I wrote in the previous class), filming them, reflecting upon them, and sending in one of the recordings for my teacher to preview.
I’ll have until May 16th to complete the course.
I’m hoping to be finished in a month…by the time Spring Break rolls around.
I’d love to be able to truly enjoy that week off without having this class looming over my shoulder.
We’ll see if I can manage it.
Until then, I’m grateful for the push that the Lord provided…using my natural tendencies…which allowed me to finish one class much sooner than expected so that I can focus more of my energy on the nerve-wracking and scary final class.
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