I was reviewing part of my professional development video today and it made me glad to be where I am at. Mr. Borton has involved me about to the level I could handle and slowly I am getting more confident. One day during the development project we gave the students a dice lab and I was expecting it to take them 30 minutes but it only took ten. Luckily Mr. Borton had another assignment and worksheet to fall back on to take up the rest of the time. When the kids started getting a little rowdy because they finished early he said with a smile, "Now this is what happens when you don't prepare enough material to take up the class period." It brought home to me that if I am going to make a mistake in preparedness that it should be on the side of too much material or activities. Extra can always wait until tomorrow but if the students surprise you then at least you have something else to keep them occupied with. Beyond my lecture stumbles and giving the kids the dice before demonstrating the lab procedure for them I think I did ok during the project.