Input 3 lesson planning

So it's week two already. I didn't manage to post after Input 2 as once again I was up into the wee small hours. Ok it was a two hour input session, and yes it was intense as there was a lot of information out tutor had to get across but there were activitys going on as well, so how come it took me over 4 hours to type up my notes... by the way my laptop keyboard has decided to start playing up and the question mark is sticking so if I do 3 ... at the end of a sentence which should be a question then you just have to realise that it's replacing a question mark. I'm getting to know some of my co-delta students. It's early days and I'm not sure how I compare to them. Perhaps I am the most inexperienced in EFL despite the fact that I have been a teacher trainer in other guises for over twenty years. However I have realised from various comments I have recieved that I work at a really supportive school and some of the input we have received so far I was already aware of or doing compliments of the continuous professional development offered at my school. My biggest concern is what to read. There are just so many books and the skill is going to be identifying the ones that might contain the information or quotes I'm going to need for my Observed Lessons. The time of the year is not helping me as it affects me physically due to my medical condition(s) so nights like tonight I'm not sleeping due to pain and that's not good, although I am kind of used to it. I am trying to use this to my advantage and do some catch up reading (or typing this blog) when I really should be sleeping. Beats laying on the sofa watching trash tv for hours on end I suppose. There is so much information to absorb, the biggest them of the DELTA seems to be coming across as you have to put the WHY, why you are teaching an area of grammar, why you are concentrating on a receptive skill, why you have chosen a particular resource, why the students are doing an activity, why, why, why. And so far I don't seem to be having much of a problem identifying that. Some time in the next ten days I will be having one of the tutors come to my school and do my first observed lesson for my Personal Development Assignment. Thankfully this one only requires half the amount of paperwork, only a lesson plan (albeit extensive) and a self - evaluation form. My difficult lies in the fact I have no idea where my two classes will be in their learning journey as I only took them over today. One being an existing elementary class and the other a brand new class filled with new students who scored at early Intermediate stage one. So it's get to know you time in order to have the information I will need for my lesson plan. Once the tutors have told me when they will come then I can get down to brass tacks and write the lesson plan proper as I'll be able to identify where they are in their learning journey and which lesson I will need to teach to achieve the next required step. I'm surface calm but underneath I am tense as I really like to organise and get ahead of the game and at the moment I can't so it's frustrating. Anyway this is not much of a post tonight, hopefully once we get into the roller coaster of essays, lesson plans and self evaluations things will start to become more interesting.