Whew!

I just did my very first peer tutor training. I wanted it to be interactive and participatory and all those other good things we tell them tutoring should be, so of course I've been losing sleep over planning two hours of role plays and activities and so on. It's hard to gauge how long things will take. And you never know when an activity is just going to fall flat, or when a group of students is going to sit and stare blankly whenever you ask a question.

Strangely enough, almost everything we intended to cover fit into two hours. And the students were amazing -- engaged and thoughtful and with good intuitions. And, if it wasn't the most exciting, educational-yet-fun-packed two hours the students ever spent, I'm at least confident that it wasn't the most horrendously boring.

I am happy.