Yesterday I turned thirty-twooooo… Though it was quiet, I had the best birthday ever! And on the car front… I got a Ford Escape Hybrid, and I LOVE it. Love love love it. Could not recommend it more highly. (Nate, Lexus is just a lit-tle bit out of my price range)
America also got me a present… a new president! Thanks, United States!
I am sorry the updates have been short and/or few and far between. Between full-time graduate school, volunteering at an elementary school, and swim practice, I have just been all over the place.
Both schools are going well, and I am so glad I have the opportunity to volunteer. I am shadowing a special ed teacher who is a RSP (Resource Specialist), so I get to see a lot of different classrooms K-2. Oddly enough, I am thinking more and more I want to do regular ed vs. special ed. More and more in California, special needs kids are being mainstreamed into regular classrooms due to the least restrictive environment movement. It seems to be working well, but what I am noticing with the pull-out it is just helping with tests and homework assignments/projects not finished in class. I really want my own classroom, and while there are still Special Day classes, I am not sure that is what I want to do anymore. Fortunately my University is very small and able to support me in all areas… from volunteer opportunities to fine tuning my curriculum to meet what I want to do.
So the plan is now to get my regular Multiple Subject credential… I am also going to take the single subject course which (after I take and pass the subject matter CSET) will qualify me for a Single Subject credential as well. In layman’s terms, that means I can teach then teach K-12. (7-12 in a single subject… not sure if I am going to do English or History)
I will write more this weekend… I have to head to swim practice. I will say, even though this is LA, it is getting COLD to swim outside. The pool is heated, so the water is actually warmer than the air. So I run-walk from the locker room to the pool. That’s the good thing, you want to keep moving, keep swimming, stay underwater, because if you don’t… you freeze. I am even going to attempt some morning (6 am, yeowsers) workouts. I made the mistake of saying casually to my coach “I would come, but I really just need a wake up call”… turns out that’s not a problem for them.
