Benchmark II
Last night was the second Benchmark for the teaching program I’m in. I passed. It was actually a pretty straight-forward experience. We had to prove we were able to put together a pretty portfolio and participate in a Socratic Seminar. I looked up my GPA and was pleased to see it sitting in the neighborhood of 3.8.
I have my first informal meeting set up with my student teaching supervisor and my co-operating teachers. I’ll be going in and meeting one of the teachers tomorrow. After that will be class. Whee. At least there wasn’t any homework due for the first night of class.
Benchmark II was fun though. There were tornadoes in town and so at one point we had to huddle in a windowless classroom for a bit at one point. There was even some question if we would finish the benchmarks. We stayed. All of us just wanted to get it over with and be done.
I bought a new miniature this weekend to assemble. It’s one I’ve been drooling over for a couple of years now. It was a little easier than I had thought to assemble, but it wasn’t easy.
Here’s a picture of it mostly done.
