Swamped
I just have to make it through the next couple of weeks.
I'm behind in work for my research class. I have an article that I need to read and comment on by Saturday. When am I going to read it? Not tonight (Lost is on in a few minutes). Not tomorrow I'm sure (I'll let you know why at a later date). Guess it will be Friday. At least I don't have to drive to Detroit for class on Saturday. We are doing online activities instead. That will save me a few hours of drive time that I might be able to use for work instead.
I've got 30 practicum hours in. Only 60 to go. I've turned in my first journal submission, but still need to get my project proposal done. At least I know what my project is now, which is better than I was doing not long ago. I just need to do a little research to back up why it's a good project.
I've got a couple of assignments that I need to grade. Nothing big, but I just haven't had the time or energy to get to them yet. Home time has been filled up with grad school work and sleeping (I'm fighting off the tail end of a cold). I really have been using my prep time wisely, but there's just so much to do! At least I don't lose my conference hour to team meetings twice a week like I did the last two years. I don't know how I survived on so little prep time!
Starting tomorrow my English classes will be taking the all important MEAP test. Seven days of testing for seventh graders. And this after three days of math testing. Are the state bureaucrats insane? At least we are a grade where the kids only have two tests. Some grades also have a science or social studies test in addition to the Math and English tests.
Beginning on Tuesday next week I will be out of my classroom for five of the next ten days. I didn't really want to do it, but I need to get those practicum hours in so I am using a personal day and have a couple doctor appointments scheduled (which I then use the remainder of the day to go to my practicum site). I also have that media specialist conference to go to which will be two days.
I'm really looking forward to the conference. Not only do I get to count some of the hours towards my practicum, but it is in Grand Rapids, so I get to spend a couple nights with Mom and Dad. I have tentative plans to meet one of my friends from high school for a drink one night, too. Plus, I just love being back in West Michigan. I miss being there so much.
Hope to do a little better in the posting department than I have recently. More in the days to come.
I'm behind in work for my research class. I have an article that I need to read and comment on by Saturday. When am I going to read it? Not tonight (Lost is on in a few minutes). Not tomorrow I'm sure (I'll let you know why at a later date). Guess it will be Friday. At least I don't have to drive to Detroit for class on Saturday. We are doing online activities instead. That will save me a few hours of drive time that I might be able to use for work instead.
I've got 30 practicum hours in. Only 60 to go. I've turned in my first journal submission, but still need to get my project proposal done. At least I know what my project is now, which is better than I was doing not long ago. I just need to do a little research to back up why it's a good project.
I've got a couple of assignments that I need to grade. Nothing big, but I just haven't had the time or energy to get to them yet. Home time has been filled up with grad school work and sleeping (I'm fighting off the tail end of a cold). I really have been using my prep time wisely, but there's just so much to do! At least I don't lose my conference hour to team meetings twice a week like I did the last two years. I don't know how I survived on so little prep time!
Starting tomorrow my English classes will be taking the all important MEAP test. Seven days of testing for seventh graders. And this after three days of math testing. Are the state bureaucrats insane? At least we are a grade where the kids only have two tests. Some grades also have a science or social studies test in addition to the Math and English tests.
Beginning on Tuesday next week I will be out of my classroom for five of the next ten days. I didn't really want to do it, but I need to get those practicum hours in so I am using a personal day and have a couple doctor appointments scheduled (which I then use the remainder of the day to go to my practicum site). I also have that media specialist conference to go to which will be two days.
I'm really looking forward to the conference. Not only do I get to count some of the hours towards my practicum, but it is in Grand Rapids, so I get to spend a couple nights with Mom and Dad. I have tentative plans to meet one of my friends from high school for a drink one night, too. Plus, I just love being back in West Michigan. I miss being there so much.
Hope to do a little better in the posting department than I have recently. More in the days to come.
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