So yeah, done my first two weeks of teacher education.
It's been a lot of fun, generally. There's been no shortage of work to do (over 20 class hours a week demanding 100% attendance and active involvement, and plenty of work between classes, too), but I'm really into it, in a way I certainly never was in undergrad. A lot of it is the fact that I'm back for a purpose - I know why I'm here, and I know what I'm getting out of it, instead of the aimless "degree" carrot I chased for years. More than that, though - the style of education is just far superior. Classes top out at around 30 people (this despite the program being 20 times that size), and are very interactive. It's involving, it's social, it's actually teaching me how to teach and function in a classroom setting. I realised yesterday that I could name every single person in one of my classes - I don't think that's been true for me in any class since high school. It's a neat experience.
Now I just need to worry about not being crushed by it. <_< Some of it makes me nervous, certainly - teaching in front of a whole class, even in practice, isn't an easy thing for me (and, it seems, most of my classmates) to get up and do. And staying on top of the work in this course is necessary in a way I can't recall... ever, previously. But yeah, I'm enjoying it. ^_^
