updates

live, as they happen…

no, not quite. first and foremost, incident update: monday and tuesday the aide was there; yesterday and today she was not. no one has said a word. i have not asked. i do not care to know. i still fished her girls off the playground today. i was quite proud of myself for having done so in a way that continued their imaginative play for a bit.

we’re in the throes of nclb testing. they’ve made it as painless as possible for the kids, though it was not as well thought out as it could been. for example, the woman reading to my kids has two kids with two different forms of the test. bad planning. and while it’s good that big d has some one else to test with, it is definitely hurting my other student’s performance because he feels like he has to cover up that he cant read it himself, whereas with me, that’s they way we always operate all the time. and they decided to give us three hours for a 40 minute test. even my extra time kids finished in about 35 minutes and we have played endless hangman games.

in other news, i have to brag that my assessment prof complimented my writing today, and my analytical abilities. and he encouraged me to continue on in assessment. which is way cool because school psychologist (ie, assessments) is one of the two or three areas i’m thinking about for phd (the others are public policy/education reform and actual clinical research on best practices for either urban schools in general or a specific disability). he wants to talk to me about adding extra classess in assessment. i did a little happy dance in my head. i like writing, i like trying to figure out the puzzle, so, maybe it will be a good field for me, especially after i gain some good teaching experience so i can really bridge the gap between assessments and teaching, which is often lacking. after months of feeling like a failure, it was nice to be complimented, even if it was for something i guess i already know i do well.