With a few hours of work yesterday, I am on my way to crossing things off of the aforementioned list. I hope that after putting in the hours on this stuff that I actually use it.

One of my fears about having my own classroom is that I'll have trouble with follow-through. There's a lot of steps in education, especially when you're talking about assessment. Pre, during, post, formative or summative, plus that assessment has to be authentic, and you have to use the information you gather to create some kind of grade that reflects what the student is actually capable of doing. Phew.

One of my main goals for myself this year is to be organized to the point where I can keep track of all the routines I set in place and finish everything I start. I don't want things to just peter off toward the middle of the semester because I forget about them or because we're doing something else. In order to show my students that I'm serious about consistency and quality of work, I have to expect the same of myself.