This has perhaps been the MOST difficult learning experience I have undertook simply because every other experience has allowed me to have one focus: being a student. For the first time in my academic journey I was balancing a new career, pregnancy, a new child.... a busy toddler, and then another pregnancy. School was no longer in a classroom with students and an instructor to devote your focus to... it was online, 100% independent, and usually completed in the late evening after a full day at work and/or with a child in your lap. When I started this journey the idea that you were limited to one class a semester seemed laughable after going from a full 5-class course load. When balancing all of life's other priorities, however, one class was sometimes impossible.
With that being said, the learning that I have experienced in the last 3 years has been invaluable to me as both an educator but also a mother, wife, and community member. This has truly been the best PD I could have ever participated in and am a better person because of it. I am very lucky to have had a solid support network around me including my husband, parents, in-laws, colleagues, and professors who have helped me meet my goals.
Here is a look at my M.Ed journey, including a detailed look at each of the classes I participated in. (Click on the image to take you directly to my portfolio).
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| Program Portfolio Screenshot. (2018). Uploaded by Kirsten Thompson. Available online at: https://kthompson97.wixsite.com/programportfolio |