An Award for That?

Back on the 16th my blog entry for the day was titled Getting Frustrated.  Indeed I was frustrated at a task I was working on for school.  I was developing a lesson plan that was composed of 5 mini lessons.  It was not my favorite assignment and I was struggling to get it done.  I actually quit working on it that night just for my own sanity.  The next day I got up and went back to work. It made for a long day but I got through it. I didn't think it was the greatest work but it should meet the requirements of the task.  Indeed it did and I passed the assessment.  Today I received a call from my mentor who asked if I had seen my email.  I had not.  I thought she might be calling to let me know that my scores came in for that dang praxis exam but this was not the case.  She told me that I had been given and award of excellence.  Apparently my task submission was excellent and impressed the evaluators who are charged with evaluating such things.  She told me that this doesn't occur all that often and that I should be very proud of this achievement. When I figured out that it was for that mini lesson task I was a little bit surprised.  The reality is I don't do the bare minimum in these tasks.  I take them very seriously and I want to do them right.  I don't want to have to go back and do them again because I missed something. I researched effective mini-lesson plans and put something together that I thought would be beneficial to diverse groups of students.  I guess I did okay. I had three emails congratulating me on the achievement.  Pretty cool.