Three weeks. That's how long I have before the second class in this graduate certificate program, Course Design & Evaluation, begins. That's three weeks of reading whatever books I choose (on my list: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Outliers; The Other Queen; The Omnivore's Dilemma (finally!)), writing Christmas cards instead of papers, and generally doing whatever the heck I feel like doing.
I really enjoyed this first class, Principles of Training & Development. I learned a lot about adult learning styles - how to anticipate what they are for a given audience and how to address them in training - and motivational strategies, I got a nice introduction to intercultural and ethical considerations for training, and I've already been applying what I've learned to my work. I worked my ass off and got an A+ on my third paper. I met some fantastic people, and will be seeing several of them again in the next course.
But until then, I'm just enjoying that my time is my own again.
