June 23 - Mentor warned me I’ll be put on probation for inactivity if I don’t do schoolwork or at least interact with a mentor (send Email or have phone call) at a minimum of once every 2 weeks.
June 24 - Revised 1 of 3 answers in 1 assignment revision.
June 26 - Developed system to force me to stay productive and on-task. Consists of me having a paper schedule of work to do in 5 to 15min chunks, the paper is scheduled in chronological order, split into 4 groups with each group color coded. Alarms with images and text to speech set matching the paper, and I have to do math problems to turn the alarm off. I physically check off when I do each item on a checkbox on the paper. This worked for day 1 to get me back on track. I found that while the worksheet was the most effective, on subsequent days all I needed for the bare minimum was for the alarms to continuously jolt me out of something if I was being off-task.
June 27 - Submitted WGU resume, cover letter, and photo for WGU ID card, all needed for student internship. Submitted 1 of 2 remaining assignments for “Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment”.
June 28 - Did 1 of 3 questions for remaining assignment. Received WEST-B scores which I had taken on June 3rd and Emailed them to WGU: Reading 285, Math 264, Writing 289.
8) June 29 - Submitted last remaining assignment. Started and finished “Using Educational Technology for Teaching and Learning” (2 CPU) without doing any of the reading, submitted 3/3 assignments. Submitted 1/1 revisions for the previous course.
Excluding potential revisions, I have now finished the assignments for all the courses required to complete before being able to apply for “preclinical experience” (student teaching internship). All I need left to officially apply is to attend one more WGU webinar, I forget which one but the next are in the 2nd or 3rd week of July.
I started the degree on March 1st 2024. At this point, I will have passed 21 CPUs in my first semester out of 51 required for the degree (=41% complete)… while actually only working on the degree for around 2-3 months out of the 6 months that make up a term.
All the rest of the classes on the degree plan from here are only 1 or 2 CPUs each, and there seem to be only 12 to 14 more classes (18 to 20 CPU total) that I can take without being in an active internship - I can still pass all those before my 1st term ends on August 31st 2024, as long as I work hard and start back up on reviewing my Anki deck in the down time while I wait for my mentor to approve new courses.
What I learned this section:
- I shouldn’t have worried about passing the WEST-B!!
- Due to my work or hobbies, having often been around people with college degrees and even PhDs in stuff like linguistics, civil engineering, and computer programming - fields where I am unqualified or uneducated - and seeing people like that online a lot as well, I have too high a standard for what counts as educated or academic level in my head. I forgot that in general society and the government’s eyes, high school is still a form of higher education.
- Keep a timed schedule and timers on!
June 24 - Revised 1 of 3 answers in 1 assignment revision.
June 26 - Developed system to force me to stay productive and on-task. Consists of me having a paper schedule of work to do in 5 to 15min chunks, the paper is scheduled in chronological order, split into 4 groups with each group color coded. Alarms with images and text to speech set matching the paper, and I have to do math problems to turn the alarm off. I physically check off when I do each item on a checkbox on the paper. This worked for day 1 to get me back on track. I found that while the worksheet was the most effective, on subsequent days all I needed for the bare minimum was for the alarms to continuously jolt me out of something if I was being off-task.
June 27 - Submitted WGU resume, cover letter, and photo for WGU ID card, all needed for student internship. Submitted 1 of 2 remaining assignments for “Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment”.
June 28 - Did 1 of 3 questions for remaining assignment. Received WEST-B scores which I had taken on June 3rd and Emailed them to WGU: Reading 285, Math 264, Writing 289.
8) June 29 - Submitted last remaining assignment. Started and finished “Using Educational Technology for Teaching and Learning” (2 CPU) without doing any of the reading, submitted 3/3 assignments. Submitted 1/1 revisions for the previous course.
Excluding potential revisions, I have now finished the assignments for all the courses required to complete before being able to apply for “preclinical experience” (student teaching internship). All I need left to officially apply is to attend one more WGU webinar, I forget which one but the next are in the 2nd or 3rd week of July.
I started the degree on March 1st 2024. At this point, I will have passed 21 CPUs in my first semester out of 51 required for the degree (=41% complete)… while actually only working on the degree for around 2-3 months out of the 6 months that make up a term.
All the rest of the classes on the degree plan from here are only 1 or 2 CPUs each, and there seem to be only 12 to 14 more classes (18 to 20 CPU total) that I can take without being in an active internship - I can still pass all those before my 1st term ends on August 31st 2024, as long as I work hard and start back up on reviewing my Anki deck in the down time while I wait for my mentor to approve new courses.
What I learned this section:
- I shouldn’t have worried about passing the WEST-B!!
- Due to my work or hobbies, having often been around people with college degrees and even PhDs in stuff like linguistics, civil engineering, and computer programming - fields where I am unqualified or uneducated - and seeing people like that online a lot as well, I have too high a standard for what counts as educated or academic level in my head. I forgot that in general society and the government’s eyes, high school is still a form of higher education.
- Keep a timed schedule and timers on!
Finished: 2 AAs, 1 BA, 2 trade schools, 3 ENEB MAs, JLPT N1.
In Progress: 1 WGU MA, 2 Mastercurssos, 3 more ENEB MAs, teacher license.
In Progress: 1 WGU MA, 2 Mastercurssos, 3 more ENEB MAs, teacher license.
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