I found out tonight that something exciting is going to happen at my old high school. President Obama is coming to give a speech on his health care reform ideas. He will be there on Wednesday, this week. I think it is so cool to have the president come to the high school I attended. I wish I could be there, but it's by invitation only.
Right now is a really busy time for me. I'm taking two graduate classes. One of them is not too difficult, but it's a lot of work. This is the first one of these classes I've taken that has an extra assignment for the graduate credit component every week. There are also a lot of people taking the class so there are tons of forum posts to keep up on.
It's Teaching Writing in the Elementary Classroom. I think I'm learning some really helpful things. And, I'm really enjoying the class. One of my team mates is taking the class, too. It's always fun to have someone you know in the class.
The other course is a bit more difficult. It's on Backward Design. This is something we've "played" with in our building and been expected to do, but no one has really explained to us what it really is. It's got parts to it that take some thought and reasoning out.
I don't necessarily think it's hard per se, but it's a different way of thinking so it takes some getting used to and some deep thought at times. There is A LOT of reading with both this course and the other one. And, again, there are several people taking it so, there are a lot of forum posts to read and respond to. This week my first graduate assignment is due with the rest of the assignments for this course. I have a feeling I'll be working on it all up to the deadline and then have to jump right into the work for next week.
It is also the end of the quarter, which means extra paper work on top of what we do on a weekly, daily basis. I'm trying to keep up with it all so I won't have to spend my entire Spring Break working on things for work.
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