Last week I saw that I had three lesson plans due the following week and nearly passed out. I remembered doing lesson plans in my SEC 302 class over a year ago and how it seemed to be a long, torturous process. While I was procrastinating, I was wrestling with myself. Here I was freaking out about three lesson plans. I knew in the not too distance future I would have to have to make a lesson plan for everyday! How am I going to do that when I can’t seem to handle doing three?
Eventually, my procrastinating time ran out, and I had to get down to business. Know what I found? Lesson planning wasn’t nearly as hard as I was afraid it would be. It was actually, dare I say it, fun. I ended with some lesson plans that I’m pretty proud of and could use in the classroom. (After I get feedback, I’ll post them on here under My Work.) I don’t know if I was overestimating the workload before, or if there’s some magical time in the teacher education program when lesson planning just clicks. While I still try not to think of a time when I’ll have to make up a ton of lesson plans (on top of grading and all my other teacher and adult-like duties), I had a moment of wow, I can actually do this when I handed in all my lesson plans.
Eventually, my procrastinating time ran out, and I had to get down to business. Know what I found? Lesson planning wasn’t nearly as hard as I was afraid it would be. It was actually, dare I say it, fun. I ended with some lesson plans that I’m pretty proud of and could use in the classroom. (After I get feedback, I’ll post them on here under My Work.) I don’t know if I was overestimating the workload before, or if there’s some magical time in the teacher education program when lesson planning just clicks. While I still try not to think of a time when I’ll have to make up a ton of lesson plans (on top of grading and all my other teacher and adult-like duties), I had a moment of wow, I can actually do this when I handed in all my lesson plans.