My own little panic moment

So tonight, while driving home after our Thursday afternoon class, it hit me big time: I AM GOING TO HAVE STUDENTS NEXT WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, this in itself was a feeling of panic and anxiety. But I realized that it was an anxiety not because I don't know what I am going to do with them, but rather a realization that I don't know what I am NOT going to do with them. In Project IMPACT, even though we have been in classes for less than a week, I feel like we have been given so much good stuff, that I am really struggling with knowing where to begin to organize and synthesize it into my own teaching.

How will I use wordle? Can I do the cell phone poll as a first year teacher and with an Aid who has been there longer than me? Do I have enough time to get my syllabus done? Will I get to spend time with my wife and animals this year? Am I a constructivist or a behaviorist? How do I get to that online stop watch again?

So after fretting about this for some time, I had another realization. I don't have to have the answers to all these questions right now. And that I CAN do this.

And so can you.

more later...

--Greg