November's Monthy Review

Vince commented on groups 1 and 2.

Despite different approaches, the challenge of meeting deadlines for the assignments, and the mounting task of building upon each preceding project towards a culmination in our Program Demonstration, the most essential component was the commitment to complete what we had begun together.  This does not mean that there weren't some great highlights. We started the month both extremely excited to see the work of our Program Design had come together in the last days of October. We are also excited today about the final Program Demonstration coming together in these last days of November, showing how it all came together. We even shared in our Program Evaluation an appreciation for the critique of our peers, mentors, and our professor as they challenged us with points that could improve our work and help us to become better adult educators. Yet through it all, each of us has had many personal challenges to battle this semester. For instance, we had each taken nine credit hours of class on top of already demanding challenges of work and life. That proved to be a persistent shared fight.

Vince's November Monthly Review

I'm not sure this month's lessons were that much different than the previous months. We've had our ups and downs as a team, for me at times this month maybe even more downs than ups. However, as I reflect on this month's work in EDAC634, it seems that one word comes to mind, and that one word makes all the difference—perseverance.

So for this month's review, I thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes on perseverance. They have proven time and time again to be important truths in challenging endeavors, and they depict as well our work throughout this last month in particular.

Troy’s November Monthly Review

Perseverance is also the overall one word description for November for me as well.  Whether it was technology issues, conflicts in schedules, starting a new contract, or personal barrier, I too had to overcome and persevere.

The program evaluation and the program demonstration was a great “check in learning” and opened my eyes to where and how I’ve developed since August.  I have grown as a future adult educator and the assignments for November reflect.  The design of the class was set up this way and it works for us to have this self-reflection about ourselves and students and future adult educators.
 
As a sign and demonstration of teamwork and working together after some initial friction, I am “piggy backing” on Vince’s quotes.  I couldn’t summarize the month any better than what Vince already has.  He has definitely become a great teammate and asset to me as a student in EDAC 634.
 

Quotes

We began enthusiastically in the realm of ideas, but in the end this quote displays what mattered:  "In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Sometimes doing our best ends in failure, but true success can be seen in the words of Winston Churchill: "It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

A couple more quotes round out this perspective of perseverance:

•    “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

•    “You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”  ― Tom Hiddleston