I am tired, although I slept a bit better last night than most of the nights in the past week. In one of my seminary classes, we had to facilitate one of the classes, which included preparing a 2 page handout, a powerpoint for the class, and leading class discussion. It wasn't anything that made me too nervous, and it was a topic I'm familiar with: how big tech has set up our devices so that we are trained to return to them again and again, even as they are not great for our mental health most days.
Still, even though the thought of facilitating didn't make me nervous, I am glad to be done with that requirement. I am briefly caught up with grading. I am ready-ish to teach today. I have classwork to do for Thursday's seminary class, and I have an application for the summer CPE program. It's the kind of application which is very extensive and I'm not really sure I can use the material I've written for other parts of this seminary journey.
Long ago, when I planned my weekly outline for my Survey of American Lit class, I decided to do a drama module for the week before and after Spring Break, which is next week. I still think it's a good idea, but this morning, I'm struggling with how to divide the various works.
It's interesting to me that this term, I have fairly good class discussion across classes (although in the American Lit class, I do tend to talk more than the students do)--but it's never the same classes from week to week. One week, it's my 2:00 class that has a lot to say, and then the next week, they're quiet but my 10:00 class or my noon class is talkative. I never know what to expect. But it's fine: I always go to class prepared to be the only one talking, and if others want to join in, I'm pleasantly surprised.
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