Goal+Reflection


 * Goal Reflection **

I waited a little bit longer to do my goal reflection, because I wanted to do this after I found out whether I was successful and reached my goal. There were two reasons for taking this course of study.

My first reason is because I have been out of the teaching profession for almost twenty five years, and really was unhappy knowing that I was no longer doing what I had gone to school for all those years ago. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed every minute that I was home raising my children. But, my son has graduated from college and my daughter is a sophomore in college. I have been working in a school library for the past eleven years, but it was not the same. Something was just missing in how I was feeling about myself. Going back to school and getting my Library Media Specialist certificate would fill that empty space, make me feel good about myself again.

My second reason for going back to school was because I was going to lose my job at my elementary school library, and I loved being there so much that I just could not let it go…at least not without a fight. So I enrolled in this course of study to become a Library Media Specialist, so that I might become the Specialist at the library in which I was working. And to that end, I reached my goal! I became the Library Media Specialist at Donges Bay School on Monday, January 24, 2011. All the hard work, and all my fretting paid off. I am very excited about my new job, and look forward to putting into action everything that I have learned over the past two years.

My second goal was to do much better in my schoolwork than I did back in the 1970s as I proceeded through the program. I didn't get it back then. I reached that goal as well.

I am very proud of what I have accomplished. With the help of my teachers, advisor, classmates, and children, I have achieved my goals of finishing my Library Media Specialist certificate and have been given the job that I worked so hard for.