cause I'm pregnant.
Just kidding....
although the last time I took an online class through the University of Wisconsin to renew my teaching certificate I found out I was pregnant and had to tolerate horrible nausea and dry heaving while studying developmental reading.
If that happens again, a certain urologist is going DOWN.
In January I will take a UW course to acquire 3 of my 6 graduate hours of credit for certificate renewal. It sounds interesting---Mobile Learning Instructional Design. I decided to take it to catch myself up technology-wise with my students and learn some cool applications that I can work into my instruction.
Next summer, I will take an adolescent psychology class locally (at my alma mater) to complete the 6 hours of state-required certification renewal, 3 hours of which will count toward my secondary education certification.
Next fall I will possibly take the second class at my alma mater toward secondary ed. certification. I figure since I have to take graduate classes anyway for renewal (since I don't teach full-time), I might as well put them toward a new certification. This class will require some field time, but all the kids will be in full-time school then so I won't have to worry about child-care.
Provided I don't get the boot from my current cottage school position, I will continue teaching 2 or 3 literature courses.
Oh, and when the magazine calls, I'll likely pick up some freelance stuff too.
The kids are at an age where they don't really want me to play with them, so I am just around. Available for stuff if I'm needed, but otherwise just spending my time puttering, and I am generally not good at finding puttering-type stuff to do. I don't clean clean or any of that nonsense.
Coursework, planning lessons and freelancing tend to be good puttering stuff for me, that I can drop in and out of without too much trouble. I sit and read until needed, or I search the web for teaching ideas until needed, or I write a bit of an article until needed.
Plus, I don't watch television, so unless I want to go to bed at 8:30 every night when the kids go to bed, I need something to do with a couple hours per night.
I am nervous about all this, though, if for no other reason than that it is transitioning me into life with all the kids in full-time school. In 2015, I will have been a stay-at-home mom for 11 years. Even though I'm doing the cottage school gig, I am only away from the house not even 1 full day a week. Most of my time is still spent with one of my children.
It will feel really weird to have so much time to concentrate on improving me.
Just kidding....
although the last time I took an online class through the University of Wisconsin to renew my teaching certificate I found out I was pregnant and had to tolerate horrible nausea and dry heaving while studying developmental reading.
If that happens again, a certain urologist is going DOWN.
In January I will take a UW course to acquire 3 of my 6 graduate hours of credit for certificate renewal. It sounds interesting---Mobile Learning Instructional Design. I decided to take it to catch myself up technology-wise with my students and learn some cool applications that I can work into my instruction.
Next summer, I will take an adolescent psychology class locally (at my alma mater) to complete the 6 hours of state-required certification renewal, 3 hours of which will count toward my secondary education certification.
Next fall I will possibly take the second class at my alma mater toward secondary ed. certification. I figure since I have to take graduate classes anyway for renewal (since I don't teach full-time), I might as well put them toward a new certification. This class will require some field time, but all the kids will be in full-time school then so I won't have to worry about child-care.
Provided I don't get the boot from my current cottage school position, I will continue teaching 2 or 3 literature courses.
Oh, and when the magazine calls, I'll likely pick up some freelance stuff too.
The kids are at an age where they don't really want me to play with them, so I am just around. Available for stuff if I'm needed, but otherwise just spending my time puttering, and I am generally not good at finding puttering-type stuff to do. I don't clean clean or any of that nonsense.
Coursework, planning lessons and freelancing tend to be good puttering stuff for me, that I can drop in and out of without too much trouble. I sit and read until needed, or I search the web for teaching ideas until needed, or I write a bit of an article until needed.
Plus, I don't watch television, so unless I want to go to bed at 8:30 every night when the kids go to bed, I need something to do with a couple hours per night.
I am nervous about all this, though, if for no other reason than that it is transitioning me into life with all the kids in full-time school. In 2015, I will have been a stay-at-home mom for 11 years. Even though I'm doing the cottage school gig, I am only away from the house not even 1 full day a week. Most of my time is still spent with one of my children.
It will feel really weird to have so much time to concentrate on improving me.
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