I feel as though I may have left my goal a little open-ended for this year. I wanted to grow and develop professionally be learning new things/participating in new things throughout the year. I signed up to do Responsive Classroom training over the summer and knew I wanted to incorporate that throughout the school year. I also knew I would be getting a Smartboard mid-year and wanted to learn about that. Finally, I signed up to do the Literacy Cohort because I would like to continue learning about how to teach reading and writing to the best of my abilities.
Basically, I was already a little "overbooked" when the school year began. Then I decided I would be an advisor for Student Council (which is a great program for kids) and agreed to be a teacher representative for the S-team in the spring. While I certainly met my goal and learned a lot, it was completely overwhelming! It felt like I had meetings every morning and I think I spread myself way too thin. (Contributing to everything but giving my best to nothing.)
Does anyone else have this problem? It's like I want to do so much and see how all of these things can improve my teaching but fail to recognize when it's gettting to be too much. I would like to say that next year I will scale back... but not sure what I will cut. Hopefully I learn from this past year though and try to give myself a break!
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