catching up

It is hard to say how I feel about things right now! I'm exhausted, overwhelmed, and very tired. This past week I had a week of vacation and spent much of it working on my literature review. While I'm still not done, I feel that I made big progress. Before I began it seemed like a daunting task of finding all of the necessary research and then organizing and reviewing it. I began by looking up the key term "after school program" and that gave me some wonderful information. From there, I created my outline. It seems that the more research I found the more detailed my outline got. But I guess the more information the better, right?

As far as Bill's class is concerned, I'm not sure what to think. I know an amazing project and learning experience will result from it, however right now, it just seems as if it is a daunting task. I'm in the middle of reading Gardner's book "Intelligence Reframed" and it is actually pretty challenging. The psych and ed psych classes I took as an undergrad just brushed upon his theories. I never knew that they were so in depth. It is pretty challenging to read his work as some of it is way over my head, but all in all, I understand the gist of his work.

In the end, I can't believe that we are just about 3 months into the program. Time has gone by so quickly and I have learned a tremendous amount. I'm trying to keep everything straight about what I have learned and I am trying to apply my new strategies to my workplace. I guess I'm not sure how, I don't want to be the black sheep especially since I am new.