Spring Break!

I made it to spring break! Three weeks of full time teaching might have been the hardest thing I've ever done. I've said that before, too. "My thesis is the hardest thing I've ever done," etc, etc. I'm curious though; does saying that now make the other times I said it a lie? Or were they, in that moment, the hardest things I've ever done?

Anyhow...I dont have school again until the 26th, and that week I'm only teaching half the classes and then Friday the 29th is my last day. I have to bust it over break on my portfolio though...and job applications...and all the work I haven't done for my methods class....

...Oops...

And I gave my unit exam for the US History unit this week...highest grade was an 87, so I'm a bit nervous about that. I need to do a question-by-question breakdown of the exams and see what my students had the most trouble with, but in grading, I didn't see any one concept or question that was being answered wrong almost universally.

I really want to upload some pictures and reflections I wrote in my next post, which I will hopefully make tomorrow while I go to my final (*tear*) APO fellowship...at Starbucks. We were supposed to go to the Nationals day game, but the DC forecast for tomorrow looks brutal.

Oh man...

To put it simply, I can say that things have been better. Its Tuesday - I've got to make it to Thursday afternoon. I have a half day on Thursday and a full day off Friday, which is nice. These past few days have been the hardest I've faced in all of college, I think. I've felt like I've bombed three consecutive lessons, and out of nowhere my cooperating teacher has been pretty cold with me. Our working relationship is strictly that - a working relationship. Very professional: I can count the times we've talked about things besides school/lessons/teaching/etc on one hand. On top of that, I essentially have to plan two curricular units by Monday. This is no small feat.

I'm actually grading papers now though so maybe I will add to this later...