When reality slaps you in the face.

HOLY COW! The last couple of weeks have been absolutely insane! As soon as the break ended and classes started up again, I got a serious taste of reality. Seeing the assignment expectations for an entire course all in one place (syllabus) is stressful enough, but I had an entire work sample to worry about as well as lesson planning for my class. I can't begin to describe how much was on my plate all at once. I can now look back and say that I handled the anxiety fairly well. My nails and eyebrows might not agree but that's another story.

My work sample ended up being a total of 107 pages. OUCH! I can say it was well worth the effort. I was pretty proud of the product.

So, work sample #2? Yeah I've already started working on it because I begin teaching the unit a week from Monday. Things are going so fast lately. So, why not post a to do list so that I can look at the long list of giant assignments and have a panic attack.. Joy.

To do list for the next few weeks:

1. Write lesson plans for 3 of my lessons. 
2. Create the slides and lesson plans for the other 4 lessons. 
3. Make the group activity for lesson 8/9 on the similarity of ipads and iphones
4. Video tape my lesson on Feb. 6th.
5. Don't be an idiot on that day because the principal is coming in to observe you. 
6. Also, don't be an idiot on the 8th either, because your supervisor is coming in to observe. 
7. Write a 3-4 page paper on my classroom management philosophies by Thursday. 
8. Have the draft of my Plan for Teaching pretty much complete by Wednesday.
9. Plan for teaching must be entirely done by Wed. the 8th.
10. Finish application on edzapp.
11. Do an awesome job on my civil rights test on Feb. 4th. 
12. Order transcripts and test score reports for when i'm job hunting.
13. Fix up resume so that potential career placements want to hire you on the spot.
14. Do all of the crazy amounts of reading for class. Don't be a loser and get behind on this. 
15. Find time in all of this to watch Battlestar Galactica. :)

Number 15 is in there purely to help put a stop to any potential panic attacks. 

Good thing there are funny pictures of animals to make me feel better.