Tomorrow I will accomplish a fairly huge milestone in my teaching career...I will officially be done with KTIP! For those that may not know what this is here is a brief explanation. Kentucky has decided that a teacher's first year really isn't quite difficult enough. So they created the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program (KTIP). This is a program that lasts (almost) your entire first year of teaching and has multiple requirements ranging from writing lesson plans (in KTIP format, of course!) to planning, implementing, and reflecting on a whole unit! And let's not forget the never-ending, time consuming reflections you have to do with every part of every task along the way...
Anyway, as of about 1:00 tomorrow afternoon, I will be finished (hopefully ;)!!! The journey has been thankfully not too painful. Mainly just time consuming and it was stinky to have extra things to do as if my regular responsibilities as a kindergarten teacher are not enough.
It will be good to just be able to mark it off the list and enjoy the last 40 something days of school I have left with the kids in my first class ever :)
Yea!!! Way to go!!! We'll need to celebrate! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats Meg! I remember the dreaded KTIP year!
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