I am swamped with work and all I want to do is run away from it all. I cannot express how relieved I am that the lesson plan got pushed back again! I have so much to do this week alone that it's already spilling over into Spring Break :(. Who wants to do work over spring break? Not I.
Needless to say based off of today's reaction that I didn't watch the Teachscape videos. It's not so much that I forgot to, as much as it was that I pushed them off because of other things that were due. There just wasn't enough time last week. I had huge midterm projects and 1 huge midterm that just about made me cry. I don't see how people stay up studying all night, because I tried it Friday and Saturday and let's just say that I am not about that life.
Anyway, I'm planning to watch the videos today because I don't like being behind at all and I wasn't very happy with myself today. Unfortunately, it's safe to say that I did not meet standard 3 since I didn't know what cooperative learning was in order to teach it. The only thing to do now is to move forward and not let it happen again.
Shaquavia-
ReplyDeleteThis blog post speaks to me! I feel like we are in the same boat. However; some encouragement clearly is needed.Don't be so hard on yourself. When you were up there you did a great job with the jigsaw activity and you aren't the only one who didn't watch the videos. I can guarantee not everyone watched all of them because there were like 3 and they all are over 2 hours long. As a college student we have a lot going on and this is not the only class we are taking. So we devote the time we can but we also have other assignments to complete. Please when you feel overwhelmed or need any help at all reach out to me! This class is to me is -Positive Interdependence- so, "as a group, we're either all going to sink, or we're all going to swim, but whatever we do, we do it together." I got your back don't fret!
Shaquavia,
ReplyDeleteI feel you! I think we are mostly all in the same boat!
I think that we have definitely built an encouraging community in our classroom, and I am glad that we can all be honest with one another. You are not alone!
So thanks for being honest in your blog post and allowing us to not feel like we are the only ones who are behind!