Starting Grad Schoolhouse Today!
I've told a few people well-nigh this decision, but I estimate it's fourth dimension to brand this "blog official." (That but doesn't receive got the same band to it every bit "facebook official..." :)
As I posted before, i of my goals for the #Next5 years of my life is to earn a master's degree. This is something I've been thinking well-nigh since my days of undergrad, but I'd ever catch of it inwards a "someday..." sort of way. I estimate the argue for this is that I didn't know what I wanted a master's flat for. I think I wanted i but to receive got one.
But, if yous don't actually receive got a argue for pursuing i other than to receive got one, it's kinda difficult to create upwards one's hear what type of flat to pursue. One master's computer program volition allow yous live a schoolhouse counselor. Another, a principal. Yet another, an instructional specialist. There were degrees inwards educational technology, math education, educational psychology, educational activity theory, particular education, etc. The listing keeps going on together with on. There is no i flat that lets i create it all. And, I haven't fifty-fifty added the selection of pursuing a master's inwards pure or applied mathematics to the list. Then, there's ever the selection of going for a master's inwards an unrelated field.
In high school, I catch I would i twenty-four hours bring the schoolhouse counselor route. After becoming friends amongst our schoolhouse counselor, I meet that the undertaking isn't just what I envisioned. I think I love the human activity of teaching likewise much to laissez passer on it up. I all the same think it would live rewarding to attention students amongst the college application together with scholarship process, but I know in that place is much to a greater extent than to beingness a schoolhouse counselor than that. It's truthful that I create love math. But, I'm non certain if I love the catch of graduate flat math. I'm kinda glad to live away from proofs together with all that fun stuff. I await on those years of studying challenging math fondly, but I'm non eager to relive them.
I overstep along coming dorsum to the fact that I love teaching. I love beingness inwards the classroom. School direction would bring me out of the classroom, together with I think I would immature lady it dearly. This summer, I started thinking seriously well-nigh grad schoolhouse for the get time. I think this renewed involvement was in all likelihood a upshot of the 5(!) dissimilar math instructor conferences I attended this summer. When yous surroundings yourself amongst people who love math together with people who receive got graduate degrees, it inspires yous to think well-nigh your ain future.
I was able to receive got some conversations amongst people this summertime well-nigh my thoughts/concerns regarding grad school. Thanks to all those who listened to my ramblings/attempts to procedure my life goals together with trajectory. I scream upwards i piece of cake nighttime conversation well. "Sarah, what are yous waiting for? Start the procedure now." Well, I lastly got to a greater extent than or less to doing that.
When I started researching grad programs, I came to the conclusion that I had a few options. Pack upwards my life together with motion closer to a metropolitan expanse inwards Oklahoma together with hence I tin sack attend classes at nighttime without having to drive an hr to together with from class. Commute dorsum together with forth to shape together with become insane inwards the process. Put off grad schoolhouse for a few to a greater extent than years until I tin sack create upwards one's hear what to do. Or, create an online flat program.
Ideally, I would prefer to bring actual physical classes, but I alive inwards the middle of nowhere. I think I may receive got alluded to it inwards the past, but I'm going to but come upwards correct out together with nation it. I genuinely believe that God led me to bring this undertaking inwards this town. Had I chosen a path to bring afterwards college, moving to a town without a stoplight where I didn't know a unmarried individual would non receive got been how I wrote my story. But, God is infinitely to a greater extent than wise than I tin sack ever comprehend. My experiences these by few years receive got reassured me that He has a plan. I'm all the same non certain what that innovation entails. And, I receive got no clue how long He agency me to remain here. I receive got to trust that He volition learn inwards abundantly clear when it is fourth dimension to motion on.
Until that time, I've decided that I demand to halt living my life on "pause" together with get going afterwards my goals. This is the rationale behind my conclusion to create my master's flat online. This allows me to pursue my goal of furthering my educational activity piece staying where I believe God is using me to brand a departure for His kingdom.
The computer program I chose is a M.Ed. inwards Curriculum together with Instruction amongst a Math Education Emphasis through the University of Texas at Arlington. One shape every v weeks. One calendar week time out inwards betwixt classes. Eighteen months from now, I volition receive got a master's degree. I'm slightly nervous well-nigh taking classes online because I've never taken an online shape inwards my life before. I receive got enrolled inwards some MOOCs, but I've never finished one. This is NOT a adept sign. I think this volition live dissimilar since the classes volition live business office of a flat program, together with there's ever the fact to visit that I'm paying for them.
Thanks to the federal regime together with a TEACH Grant, I volition exclusively receive got to covert 20% of the tuition costs inwards central for agreeing to learn 4 years afterwards finishing my master's inwards a low-income schoolhouse district. I'm non planning on leaving the classroom anytime soon, together with hence this should travel perfectly for me. I volition goal upwards paying less than $2,000 for my master's degree. Seeing every bit I volition learn a $1,200/year heighten every bit a upshot of the additional degree, I think it volition live worth it. Plus, I'm excited to hitting the books again. I immature lady the challenge of college. Now that I've been inwards the classroom, I think the reading together with assignments volition live to a greater extent than meaningful to me than if I had gone direct into a master's computer program afterwards graduation.
So, if I'm non posting every bit much every bit normal, I receive got a novel excuse. It's called grad school. And, it starts TODAY. :)
As I posted before, i of my goals for the #Next5 years of my life is to earn a master's degree. This is something I've been thinking well-nigh since my days of undergrad, but I'd ever catch of it inwards a "someday..." sort of way. I estimate the argue for this is that I didn't know what I wanted a master's flat for. I think I wanted i but to receive got one.
But, if yous don't actually receive got a argue for pursuing i other than to receive got one, it's kinda difficult to create upwards one's hear what type of flat to pursue. One master's computer program volition allow yous live a schoolhouse counselor. Another, a principal. Yet another, an instructional specialist. There were degrees inwards educational technology, math education, educational psychology, educational activity theory, particular education, etc. The listing keeps going on together with on. There is no i flat that lets i create it all. And, I haven't fifty-fifty added the selection of pursuing a master's inwards pure or applied mathematics to the list. Then, there's ever the selection of going for a master's inwards an unrelated field.
In high school, I catch I would i twenty-four hours bring the schoolhouse counselor route. After becoming friends amongst our schoolhouse counselor, I meet that the undertaking isn't just what I envisioned. I think I love the human activity of teaching likewise much to laissez passer on it up. I all the same think it would live rewarding to attention students amongst the college application together with scholarship process, but I know in that place is much to a greater extent than to beingness a schoolhouse counselor than that. It's truthful that I create love math. But, I'm non certain if I love the catch of graduate flat math. I'm kinda glad to live away from proofs together with all that fun stuff. I await on those years of studying challenging math fondly, but I'm non eager to relive them.
I overstep along coming dorsum to the fact that I love teaching. I love beingness inwards the classroom. School direction would bring me out of the classroom, together with I think I would immature lady it dearly. This summer, I started thinking seriously well-nigh grad schoolhouse for the get time. I think this renewed involvement was in all likelihood a upshot of the 5(!) dissimilar math instructor conferences I attended this summer. When yous surroundings yourself amongst people who love math together with people who receive got graduate degrees, it inspires yous to think well-nigh your ain future.
I was able to receive got some conversations amongst people this summertime well-nigh my thoughts/concerns regarding grad school. Thanks to all those who listened to my ramblings/attempts to procedure my life goals together with trajectory. I scream upwards i piece of cake nighttime conversation well. "Sarah, what are yous waiting for? Start the procedure now." Well, I lastly got to a greater extent than or less to doing that.
When I started researching grad programs, I came to the conclusion that I had a few options. Pack upwards my life together with motion closer to a metropolitan expanse inwards Oklahoma together with hence I tin sack attend classes at nighttime without having to drive an hr to together with from class. Commute dorsum together with forth to shape together with become insane inwards the process. Put off grad schoolhouse for a few to a greater extent than years until I tin sack create upwards one's hear what to do. Or, create an online flat program.
Ideally, I would prefer to bring actual physical classes, but I alive inwards the middle of nowhere. I think I may receive got alluded to it inwards the past, but I'm going to but come upwards correct out together with nation it. I genuinely believe that God led me to bring this undertaking inwards this town. Had I chosen a path to bring afterwards college, moving to a town without a stoplight where I didn't know a unmarried individual would non receive got been how I wrote my story. But, God is infinitely to a greater extent than wise than I tin sack ever comprehend. My experiences these by few years receive got reassured me that He has a plan. I'm all the same non certain what that innovation entails. And, I receive got no clue how long He agency me to remain here. I receive got to trust that He volition learn inwards abundantly clear when it is fourth dimension to motion on.
Until that time, I've decided that I demand to halt living my life on "pause" together with get going afterwards my goals. This is the rationale behind my conclusion to create my master's flat online. This allows me to pursue my goal of furthering my educational activity piece staying where I believe God is using me to brand a departure for His kingdom.
The computer program I chose is a M.Ed. inwards Curriculum together with Instruction amongst a Math Education Emphasis through the University of Texas at Arlington. One shape every v weeks. One calendar week time out inwards betwixt classes. Eighteen months from now, I volition receive got a master's degree. I'm slightly nervous well-nigh taking classes online because I've never taken an online shape inwards my life before. I receive got enrolled inwards some MOOCs, but I've never finished one. This is NOT a adept sign. I think this volition live dissimilar since the classes volition live business office of a flat program, together with there's ever the fact to visit that I'm paying for them.
Thanks to the federal regime together with a TEACH Grant, I volition exclusively receive got to covert 20% of the tuition costs inwards central for agreeing to learn 4 years afterwards finishing my master's inwards a low-income schoolhouse district. I'm non planning on leaving the classroom anytime soon, together with hence this should travel perfectly for me. I volition goal upwards paying less than $2,000 for my master's degree. Seeing every bit I volition learn a $1,200/year heighten every bit a upshot of the additional degree, I think it volition live worth it. Plus, I'm excited to hitting the books again. I immature lady the challenge of college. Now that I've been inwards the classroom, I think the reading together with assignments volition live to a greater extent than meaningful to me than if I had gone direct into a master's computer program afterwards graduation.
So, if I'm non posting every bit much every bit normal, I receive got a novel excuse. It's called grad school. And, it starts TODAY. :)
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