It's finally over...

If you were in the Beginning Student Teaching (BST) program, you would totally understand what I meant by my heading. Just today at 4 PM, everyone in BST submitted their Teaching Performance Assessment Task #2 (TPA). All I could say is, after 33 pages of reading and writing and analyzing (and crying over when is it all gonna be over...) it's finally done. To give you a brief description of TPA, it's basically the application of everything you've learned in class but on paper and submitted to the California Department of Education so you can be a credentialed teacher...it's just one of the gazillion of things we are required to do to be an educator (K-12). Previously, Vanguard was piloting this program. But now, the entire state of California is doing it! Preparing for it and actual doing the TPA was like taking the CBEST or CSET or someother state exam for teaching except that you're not confined in one location for a period of time (that would be a painful experience if it were like that), you get to have a couple of weeks to write it.

All I can say about this is...Thank you, Jesus! Seriously, I thank God for the awesome lectures and learning experiences I have been going through in our cohort, both in our Reading/Literacy class and Curriculum/Methods Class. If it weren't for the professors who designed the program the way it is, I know I couldn't have completed the TPA in an effective way that I thought I did. Not only that, but my husband, my son and my parents and sister, helped out so much in just working around my crazy lifestyle the past few weeks as I've been getting this stuff together...so thank you! I could not have been blessed with a better, more supportive and loving family. Lastly, but most importantly, God is the source of wisdom and strength and being able to complete this task. Without Him, I would not be here. Plus, I learned something so valuable throughout this process, God is a miracle-working God, even in the small (but to me its pretty BIG) details of my life, He is there with us. A simple yet profound truth. I hope that happens to you to. Thank you God, not just for what you do, but for who you are to me.