The way the Vanguard Teacher Credential Program is set up is that students are grouped into Multiple-Subject (Grades K-5 or 6) and Single Subject (Junior High or High School) Teacher Candidate classes, aka cohorts. So within my cohort, there used to be 7 of us, but now we're only 6 (we miss being 7 :( ) Anyway, I love being in my cohort because we learn from each other, we sympathize with each other, we support each other. Its just like a family. (it's funny, I'm currently listening to Group 1 Crew's song Gimme that Funk and then right before I typed the word "family", they just said "we are like family"...lol...total confirmation...). We sure have our rough times (it seems like its been like that lately though...oh well...few more weeks! yey!) but its just good to know that you're not the only one having this cognitive dissonance...side note: we talked about this today in class, that sometimes, its ok to experience cognitive dissonance because that's how we learn, its like being stretched...but in your brain!!! lol...but anyways, as long as we don't stay like that too long, otherwise we become frustrated and give up and not care anymore...much worse...quit!!!
But anyways, I'm blessed and I'm glad that I totally obeyed God's lead in choosing Vanguard for my credential program (even if its far from home). It's not just the great set up of the program, but the faculty and staff and the wonderful cohort we get to work with, which God's Word encourages us to not give up meeting together because that is where we find encouragement:
23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching....35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay. 38But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him. 39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. -Hebrews 10:23-25, 35-39
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