Well, I wanted to let everyone know about my last few days. They have been very exciting! Yesterday, I went to Samuel High School, which is in the middle of "the Grove." Many people warned me that I should not go there because the kids were so bad, so of course, I tried to see how quickly I could visit. I realize sometimes I think I am tougher than I really am, but you all know how much I like a challenge! So I mostly hung out in a self-contained classroom, which had students on various levels. The students in this classroom have all their courses in self-contained rooms, because for one reason or another they cannot be in general ed. The teacher took me around to the different Special Ed units, which was very interesting. The teachers were all very nice and told me about their classrooms. I think if I do not get a job in a self-contained, resource, content mastery, or inclusion position then I would like to be in a Functioning Life Skills room (students who are very low functioning and you teach them basic life skills) or maybe in an Autism classroom. The Autism classroom would be difficult, but I think with enough training/ research on my part then I could enjoy it. So I did not get scared at all in Samuel. I was picturing these gangstas that would be getting all up in my face, but they were just kids just like anywhere else. Yes there was some kids with their jeans down to their knees, and some kids where not wearing their uniforms but I see that almost anywhere. The worst thing that happened was a kid kicked out a window in the cafeteria. But it is the end of the school year so stuff like that happens (you know kids don't think!). I did hear a funny story about a student who used to go to school at Samuel. Earlier in the school year, the school had to have a lock down because a bank in the area was robbed and they knew the student lived near the high school. The police knew who the robber was because he wrote a note to the teller, "This is a stick up, signed Pookie AKA Rodney ____" He actually wrote his name on the note! Smart kid:) So overall it was fun! I enjoyed the other teachers and the students.
Then today I went to a job fair through my alternative education program. I spoke to Garland ISD and the woman I spoke to was also a LMSW and she was very excited that I was willing to work with Behavior problem students at the high school level. She said in GISD the SPED teachers who work with the Behavior students actually just support the student while they go to their gen. ed classrooms, so I would not actually have them all in a classroom, so that would be interesting. Then I spoke to a teacher at Mesquite ISD and he said he would hand deliver my resume to one of the principals so I could try to get a Resource position at a middle school that is extremely close to my house. And then I didn't realize a guy from my church works with Forney ISD. Forney is not quite the population I want to work with (middle to upper middle class country suburb), but it would be a job. So I am just praying God will take me where I am supposed to be. Somewhere that I can be successful in teaching students and stay safe! So i just wanted to fill everyone in! I love all of you!
I will leave you two quotes......
"We can do no great things, just small things with great love. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing it." Mother Teresa
"We have a God of resurrection, a God who can create beauty from the messes we make of our world." Irresistible Revolution - Praise the Lord for that!
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