I think I've been doing pretty well this semester. I've tried very hard to stay organized and I am now addicted to my planner. I hope that's a good thing. So far I've been able to complete all my coursework and stay on top of my assignments. However, I need to do better with staying positive and not letting myself become too overwhelmed. I need to look at one day at a time instead of thinking about everything I need to get done the whole week or even semester.
I think I've done well with my goals. I've become more organized and I think I am making fairly good grades this semester. I've also learned a lot about becoming a teacher and have gained a lot of ideas that I hope to implement in my future classroom. Obviously I could do better with studying more and learning to study for retention of knowledge and not just for the test. I definitely need to work on that.
My motivation has been a little better because it is the end of the semester. It helps to have the end in sight. However, throughout the semester my motivation has not always been very high. I do concentrate more on performance goals rather than mastery goals. I would really like to work on that so that I am mastering the concepts and not just doing what I need to do to pass the course. That's a difficult concept for me because I often feel too overwhelmed with everything that I need to do to spend the needed amount of time for mastery. I hope that one day I will be able to concentrate on specific areas that I would like to learn and be able to devote enough time to really understand. However, I'm not sure that is going to happen in the near future unfortunately.
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