After the huge success of my Warrior Dash post I had planned a series of posts about my journey into running and so on. However, life got in the way. At that time I was enrolled in 3 summer classes at KU to finish up the coursework for my Master’s degree. After summer ended I completed a 12 week student teaching internship at a local high school teaching Spanish and ESL. Student teaching was an absolute blast and I miss the students I taught. Once I was finished with student teaching I took the Master’s exam for my degree, which involved me writing nearly 40 pages of material to summarize my learning in three different areas of education. After the Master’s exam I completed the Kansas Performance Teaching Portfolio, a 35 page portfolio proving my ability to assess the learning environment of a school and plan lessons and assessments accordingly. In the last couple of weeks I have found out that I met all the requirements for the Portfolio and have passed my Master’s exam. At this point I am finished with grad school and am continually amazed that the journey I started two and a half years ago has come to a close.
Life continues to be very busy. I accepted a long-term substitute teaching position at a local middle school where I’ll teach 6-8th grade Spanish. I observed the teacher I’ll be subbing for and the students seem like they’ll be a lot of fun to work with. The assignment will end in March and I’ll continue to sub on an as-needed basis in the district and plan to also get on other school districts’ sub lists. I’ll also be keeping my eyes open for a full-time position to open up in a district in the Kansas City area.
I’m excited to get back into writing on this blog. I’m very much looking forward to all the opportunities that the next year will bring and I’ve been feeling an urge to get back into writing. My thinking lately has revolved around parenting, education, coffee, and food as well as new habits that I’d like to start in 2012. We’ll see where those thoughts take me on this blog.
