What I need to improve on...

The first thing that I need to improve on is efficient lesson planning.  It takes me about 5 hours to plan one lesson!!  I stay up all night trying to create a "perfect lesson" -- if there is such a thing.  Although my extensive planning helps me prepare for class, it's taking its toll on me physically.  I am utterly exhausted and the school year will be 10x worse!! I'm not going to make it if I don't get better at planning lesson in less time.

Another thing that I need to work on is making concrete connections between the material I cover.  While I do this 95% of the time, this needs to be done ALL THE TIME!!

I think that I am improving with every lesson that I teach.  I am feeling more and more confident as the summer goes on.  My only apprehension is that I only have one student and I am VERY nervous about having a full class in the Fall.