Thoughts on Teaching
- Trying to find a balance between making myself as marketable as possible by specializing in as many areas as possible and taking all the certification tests I think I can handle AND making myself crazy trying to be all things for all possible employers. I have to stop at some point and just do what I've set out to do... and that's it.
- Learning as I read around (recently started on reddit.com & finding discussions there helpful - I'm "beingcricket" there, too) that most teachers don't stay at their first position for very long, and EVERYbody says to just get your foot in the door and get some experience under your belt at the beginning. This is very stressful to me. I like to plan and prepare. I like to settle in and nest. Erg.
- I'm so easily sucked into the doing-nothing state of mind over the summer, but it's sucking enjoyment of life out of me, too, so I need to find a way to acknowledge the need when I first get out of a year of school, but then get back on the bandwagon of healthy mind and body and DOING and THINKING.
- Feeling super unprepared to teach a year from now. I feel like I have no idea how to do any of the things I'm supposed to be experienced in by now. I feel like I've made the mistake of taking care of whatever homework assignment was on my plate at the time and not absorbing any of it. But.... I always think that. I've never been a rememberer of details and trivia. That's not my strong suit. I'm good at figuring things out, making a plan, discovering the "how" of something and then implementing it. Hmm... How can I use that? ...
- Contemplating nixing the Netflix subscription. I keep letting myself get sucked in to marathoning mediocre tv series. Blech. I mean, it's one thing to watch the entirety of "Chuck" or "Warehouse 13" and quite another to bemoan having to wait a day to watch S3E14 of "Ghost Whisperer." I mean, come on! Sigh.
Laters.