story of my life:
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
end of semester = no fun
i'm at the point where there's so much to do/ so uch stress, that i've just stopped getting stressed.. haven't decided if that's good or bad. For my health good.. haha for my students and grad grades, not the best. BUT i'm getting everything done, somehow.
I literally worked from the time i woke up to just now on stuff and i'm not even done, but i don't have the motivation/energy/strenght to do ne thing else right now.
The only thing keeping me going is the fact that this is the LAST week of grad school classes this semester! It's not even school that's stressing me now, it's GRAD School.. that's dumb.
i just got back from my 2nd professional development in Chicago which was awesome! We got a lot of good tips, learned how we shoudl re-vamp our program and what we need to become a strong dual langauge school, and got to see a couple dual language schools in the chicago area that are running very well! and it snowed... which is apparently nothing there but it made me excited :)
i've gone from highs to lows lows to highs, and right now i'm feeling pretty good about things, school is still stressful, and hard, but i just have to stop taking things peronsally.. i'm a little worried b/c of stupid paper work and "certification"" requirments that are just political and stupid and are probably going to get me fired in the end for forgetting to fill out some ambigious form that says the same thing that 500 other forms said, BUT my principal said that she wants to keep me and she doesn't care if i'm certified or not... so that makes me feel good, as long as she keeps her position.
i've had a few great things happen at school and some really sad things.
1st i found out one of my students is being VERY severely abused at home, and many people know about it and have done nothing.. my principal is going to take measures thank goodness, but it's super sad no one has before.
2nd a good thing, i had one of my english speaking students tell me yesterday that he is speaking/reading/understnading spanish! and granted not as much as he might think but he is doing loads better, as is a good majority of my class, AND the fact he's excited about it is a HUGE step!!!!!
3rd good thing-we raised our MAP predictor test scores by 15% (Map is the test we have to take to meet AYP because of no child left behind laws...) Granted we're still not close to meeting what we need yet, but a 15% jump in a semester is good! We're going to try to keep brining it up!
IT was great to go home for Thanksgiving but it felt like a whirlwind, and almost like it wasn't real because it was soo difffernt from what im doing here, so relaxing so doing nothing, and just nice o see family and some friends.
I look forward to having christmas though which is coming up soon, though i have a lot i aspire to achieve during break so we'll see how that goes!
this is long enough.. but it had been a while :) Until next time
I literally worked from the time i woke up to just now on stuff and i'm not even done, but i don't have the motivation/energy/strenght to do ne thing else right now.
The only thing keeping me going is the fact that this is the LAST week of grad school classes this semester! It's not even school that's stressing me now, it's GRAD School.. that's dumb.
i just got back from my 2nd professional development in Chicago which was awesome! We got a lot of good tips, learned how we shoudl re-vamp our program and what we need to become a strong dual langauge school, and got to see a couple dual language schools in the chicago area that are running very well! and it snowed... which is apparently nothing there but it made me excited :)
i've gone from highs to lows lows to highs, and right now i'm feeling pretty good about things, school is still stressful, and hard, but i just have to stop taking things peronsally.. i'm a little worried b/c of stupid paper work and "certification"" requirments that are just political and stupid and are probably going to get me fired in the end for forgetting to fill out some ambigious form that says the same thing that 500 other forms said, BUT my principal said that she wants to keep me and she doesn't care if i'm certified or not... so that makes me feel good, as long as she keeps her position.
i've had a few great things happen at school and some really sad things.
1st i found out one of my students is being VERY severely abused at home, and many people know about it and have done nothing.. my principal is going to take measures thank goodness, but it's super sad no one has before.
2nd a good thing, i had one of my english speaking students tell me yesterday that he is speaking/reading/understnading spanish! and granted not as much as he might think but he is doing loads better, as is a good majority of my class, AND the fact he's excited about it is a HUGE step!!!!!
3rd good thing-we raised our MAP predictor test scores by 15% (Map is the test we have to take to meet AYP because of no child left behind laws...) Granted we're still not close to meeting what we need yet, but a 15% jump in a semester is good! We're going to try to keep brining it up!
IT was great to go home for Thanksgiving but it felt like a whirlwind, and almost like it wasn't real because it was soo difffernt from what im doing here, so relaxing so doing nothing, and just nice o see family and some friends.
I look forward to having christmas though which is coming up soon, though i have a lot i aspire to achieve during break so we'll see how that goes!
this is long enough.. but it had been a while :) Until next time
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