griffinej5
Posted : 12/7/2006 9:42:36 AM
I finished rewriting my Intermediate Performance Assessment (IPA) paper last night. Yay! I had to redo it though because the first one sucked, because I honestly had no clue what to do with it. It's not like anyone bothers to tell us what they want. Or rather, they did, but at the same time while they were meeting with the students and telling us one thing, they were meeting with the supervisors and telling them something else. I wish these people would make up their minds. I won't know for probably at least a month whether or not I passed since they'll take their time in grading mine since I am not student teaching next semester. I'm leaning towards having not passed and redoing it next semester, but at least i'll have a supervisor with experience, and perhaps a standard to write about that doesn't suck as much.
I am off today and tomorrow because they are study days, and I have no exams. I have to go in Monday for a class though because it is being counted for two days worth of attendance, and I forgot to have my cooperating teacher at my practicum fill out a survey, so I think i'll need the points. The other two classes I am not bothering to go to. I never missed one of them and I signed up to present on the first day possible to get it over with. The other, I doubt anyone will really come to it unless they've missed a lot of classes. The guy actually has the nerve to give a lecture on an exam day. Actually, he had all the assignments pertaining to his lectures due weeks ago, and about half of us took the tests we needed to take for certification 3 weeks ago, so we stopped caring then. Plus, we've all heard his lecture in other classes. We had an entire class on classroom management. So, where he would get the idea that anyone is going to care what he has to say, I don't know. I think the fact that people are sitting there sending text messages, sleeping, doing the Su Doku or the crossword puzzle in the newspaper, would be a hint that nobody cares anymore, and it's time to give up.