I am done with the student teaching mid-December. I have one more class, an elective to take in Jan/Feb. Then I'm done. So, between now and then I need to do a dozen things which someone in my seminar calls busy-work-bullshit. Heehee. And she's right about half of it.
We have the social worker in on the group effort (that is two teachers, nurse, psychologist, principal, social worker, behavioralist, special education teachers, English Language Learner teacher, a staff who I don't know what she does). These people all deal with her on almost a daily basis. Due to something that happened today, she will be spending all of the next two days in the office. All day long. We are unequipped to have her at our school even with all these people skipping out on the rest of their jobs to help us handle her.
Well, good luck with getting through these last "bullshit" requirements, k. I hope it's a fairly painless process.
Hey, you're on the home run!
That sounds on troubled little girl!
I agree with ms olga. At least that little girl is going to get some professional help. She deserves a shot at happiness--but so do the rest of the kids in the classroom.
Littlek--
One more river to cross. Just one more.
Ooops. I meant to say one troubled little girl. Not on troubled little girl.
She is a troubled girl. Actually, the whole family is troubled. That knowledge makes me more simpatico and patient with her.
<sigh> k, a very troubled child so often comes from a very troubled family situation. If only someone could wave a magic wand & fix the entire family! It is so hard, trying to help the child, in isolation! All you can do is do your best. Sigh.
lots of sighing over here, too. Hey, one of my students has an Aussie father from Melbourne (or at least they lived in Melbourne for a spell).
What a shrinking world we now live in, k!
Connections, links everywhere!
A positive thing, I think. We are all (eventually!) going to understand each other so much better!
I agree. But, world understanding will only come after we figure out a way to ensure fair trade.
(and, goodnight Oz, I'm off to bed.....)
littlek wrote:I agree. But, world understanding will only come after we figure out a way to ensure fair trade.
Oh absolutely, possum! Absolutely!
Night night.
Sweet dreams, k.
I dreamed about grading last night. And flocking hawks. <shrug>
Heh! I'd been grading a reading response project before bed. Better than the one where the kids were doing cartwheels over their desks.
littlek wrote:..Better than the one where the kids were doing cartwheels over their desks.
Absolutely!
... or the one where they decided to get even with their teacher! :wink:
yikes, that sounds scary!
Yeah.
Lucky we're so wildly popular with our students, hey k?
Pffft. Nuttin' like sizing irrigation pipe for a subdivision in your sleep. Bad enough in waking hours. Luckily, there are programs for that now...
By the way, a tangent, sort of, but fascinating to me, an article in today's NYT by Will Okun, and, more fascinating, all the responding comments -
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/will-okun/2007/08/28/
Interesting article, Osso. I wish I could teach in urban setting with low-income students, but I am pretty sure I couldn't cut it.
