School Me Saturday 6/3/23- June update

Oh, boy.

Being a teaching assistant has given me all sorts of perspective on myself as a student.

And how I must have driven the teachers nuts in my last two degrees.

I’ve always been a last-minute Lucy kind of student.

And I mean ALWAYS.

For as long as I can remember.

But now that I get notifications from one of the classes that I am TAing when an assignment or quiz is submitted. I see the early bloomers, and the plod alongs and the other last minute Lucys.

And it kind of makes me anxious.

You see I read the assignment, think about the assignment, think about the assignment more, and then sit down and write the assignment. Full stop.

In the days when I was working all the hours that were and taking 88 hours of call a week this was a survival mechanism.

Those days are past. And I am still approaching classes this way.

But why?

In April when I had a ton of stuff due, I happened upon the post-it method. You remember from Post-it and gown card Sundays that I love to take notes.

In April I decided to expand my note-taking to post-it notes and I leave them in a prominent location so I don’t forget. I was using a whiteboard to track meetings and such and I still do for assignments.

And in my third class my assignments were going in two or three days before they were due. There is still some anxiety to this. What if I think of something better in the interim? Versus. What if I just submit and move on?

Overall the early turn-ins seem to be working better for me.

Ripping off the completed post-it off the stack is very satisfying.

I have been sharing this method with the students that I am counseling when they are worried about forgetting anything.

It has been so successful personally that I’ve started post-its on meetings that will be coming up

It seems to be working well.

I will also be taking this into Fall Semester.

I will also be taking the do assignments when they open up mindset.

We’ll see how it goes.