Am I an instruction design whiz yet?

I certainly hope so. I've been spending the past week banging out lesson and unit plans like a reporter bangs out the daily news. In all seriousness, those 15 credits I took this summer did me a lot of good. Anyway, I don't write lesson plans well at school--too many distractions, and our required lesson plan template is full of absurd educational lingo (such as "anticipatory set" and leaves out some crucial elements (such as differentiated instruction). In any case, solid instructional design means, initially, a lot of elaborate planning and setup, and that will take up my prep periods. Once you have the materials, you're set for life, but putting them together initially is a lot of work.