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 Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:37 pm
jestingly.yours One idea: you could get a Title I position in teaching. Working with challenged or disabled kids not only means you have a smaller classroom (and can therefore get more one-on-one with the students), but you also would have more potential for impacting them long-term. Title I reading is my personal horribly biased recommendation, since helping someone who struggles with literacy improve that ability is one of the best ways to claim a positive permanent effect. As of right now, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Mom said she'd kill me if I wasn't a teacher of some sort because she says I'm so good for it and it's what I'm meant to do
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:42 pm
Entry #11
So one of the mentors has finally driven us over the edge and we're reporting her to the site coordinator tomorrow. We don't want her to be able to work EE again next summer, no matter what. We're tired of the way she treats her own kids, as well as all of our kids. She goes over her boundaries and interferes when she shouldn't. It's time to do something.
I'm going to get new glasses ordered this week. I go on Thursday. I called the lady at Walmart and she said I wouldn't have to make an eye appointment since I had a prescription on file already. I seriously hope not because my eye problem is one that almost any eye doctor tries to correct except for the one I've seen since I was a baby. Mom said that since I was going I might as well go and get some of my school supplies for this next semester. I was thinking of doing that anyway. Taylor might be going with me for that.
Sunday and Monday are going to be tiring, but loads of fun. Sunday my family's going to a Nationals game in D.C. Taylor is now invited to go because one of my sister's friends cancelled on us and mom decided to have me ask Taylor before we ask anyone else. Monday is the day Taylor and I go to Hershey Park. I need to get all my stuff together for that one. I'm very much looking forward to that trip. I've never been to that amusement park before.
3 days of Energy Express left sad
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:18 pm
I glad your kids are doing well under your care. =] I believe most child-centered jobs, especially teaching, are underpaid and underappriciated-- there is SO much you can do for kids as they grow up.
I was thinking about your career dillema.. I'm not too familiar with all the types of teaching jobs there are out there, but perhaps you might consider being a child-psychologist. You could set your prices low so that you would not be excluding people of lower socioeconomic status [I say that because you seem far more interested with the kids than the money] and then you'd be able to help kids almost on a completely one-on-one basis. If you owned your own practice, that would let you have the freedom to help them in almost ANY ways you wanted-- in groups or alone and do whatever activities with them you think would be most beneficial to them, not to mention you could hire whoever you wanted on as staff.
Or you could start up your own type of camp/learning-tutoring center. I work for a small family-owned tutoring center at the moment and it's been SO COOL getting to work singly with about 20 kids each month on both my required work and other slightly more personal issues amongst them. ^^
Anyhoo. Just some suggestions. Hope Hershey Park is fun and good luck with the end of your Energy Express. <3
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:04 pm
FrozenIntellect I glad your kids are doing well under your care. =] I believe most child-centered jobs, especially teaching, are underpaid and underappriciated-- there is SO much you can do for kids as they grow up.
I was thinking about your career dillema.. I'm not too familiar with all the types of teaching jobs there are out there, but perhaps you might consider being a child-psychologist. You could set your prices low so that you would not be excluding people of lower socioeconomic status [I say that because you seem far more interested with the kids than the money] and then you'd be able to help kids almost on a completely one-on-one basis. If you owned your own practice, that would let you have the freedom to help them in almost ANY ways you wanted-- in groups or alone and do whatever activities with them you think would be most beneficial to them, not to mention you could hire whoever you wanted on as staff.
Or you could start up your own type of camp/learning-tutoring center. I work for a small family-owned tutoring center at the moment and it's been SO COOL getting to work singly with about 20 kids each month on both my required work and other slightly more personal issues amongst them. ^^
Anyhoo. Just some suggestions. Hope Hershey Park is fun and good luck with the end of your Energy Express. <3 :3 Thank you very much for your ideas. I'd never considered the child psychologist one. That would involve another degree and going up to doctorate level, but it's something to think about, as is the camp one. Energy Express has been great, as have my kids. Hershey Park should be fun, and my family is going to a Nationals game on Sunday, which Taylor might be able to go to if I can get a hold of her mom... more on that in another post though.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:03 pm
Entry #12
Where to start? I guess the Nationals game I mentioned in the previous post. My family is going and we borrow season tickets from one of my dad's friends at work. He only has 4, so we buy extra seats as needed. My little sister had invited someone to go, and my cousin Dakota was also to go. My sister's boyfriend (now ex) cancelled on us on Tuesday so Mom thought Taylor might like to go. Obviously it's been a pain to get ahold of them, and Taylor was absent from Energy Express yesterday. I found out today that they'd gone to Lakemount Park. Anywho, her mom was ecstatic that Taylor could go to such a thing. So that took care of my dilemma for getting her on Monday as well.
Taylor and I went out today to the mall in a nearby city. I had to go to Walmart and get a new pair of glasses and start getting my school supplies for the upcoming semester. I found a pair of glasses I liked and while I'm not too fond of the color (I think it'll grow on me) they looked good. I needed to get them ordered before going back to school. At least this way I know I'll have two pairs of glasses on hand...
Tomorrow is the very last day of Energy Express. I'm very saddened that I'll never get to be a mentor there again. I would absolutely love to do a 4th year if it were possible, but it's not. We're taking a trip to Ice Mountain, which is a mountain in our county that still has glacial ice on it in parts and you can feel the cold air from the vents. I've got a pretty upbeat group as we let the kids choose mentors. Taylor is in my group though and so are a few others I liked a lot. The only ones I'm worried about are the 4 boys in my group. I've a feeling they'll really act up if their behavior over the past six weeks says anything.
I'm hoping Saturday will fly by as I am totally excited about Sunday and Monday ^_^
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:08 pm
Rosenal jestingly.yours One idea: you could get a Title I position in teaching. Working with challenged or disabled kids not only means you have a smaller classroom (and can therefore get more one-on-one with the students), but you also would have more potential for impacting them long-term. Title I reading is my personal horribly biased recommendation, since helping someone who struggles with literacy improve that ability is one of the best ways to claim a positive permanent effect. As of right now, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Mom said she'd kill me if I wasn't a teacher of some sort because she says I'm so good for it and it's what I'm meant to do Geh. If my mother said that to me, I'd steadfastly refuse to become a teacher just to revolt. Parental expectations make me have a tummyache. mad
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:20 pm
jestingly.yours Rosenal jestingly.yours One idea: you could get a Title I position in teaching. Working with challenged or disabled kids not only means you have a smaller classroom (and can therefore get more one-on-one with the students), but you also would have more potential for impacting them long-term. Title I reading is my personal horribly biased recommendation, since helping someone who struggles with literacy improve that ability is one of the best ways to claim a positive permanent effect. As of right now, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Mom said she'd kill me if I wasn't a teacher of some sort because she says I'm so good for it and it's what I'm meant to do Geh. If my mother said that to me, I'd steadfastly refuse to become a teacher just to revolt. Parental expectations make me have a tummyache. mad Oh no I can't do that. Not with 3 semesters left and the end in sight. Besides, I love the preschool program, which is part of the elementary program. I just don't know what type of teaching I want. Regardless, having the degree will help me out in many fields with children
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:23 pm
Oh, honey, I didn't mean you should do that. xd No, unless you're typing up blatant lies and posting them here, you love teaching, teaching loves you, you're a happy family.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:28 pm
jestingly.yours Oh, honey, I didn't mean you should do that. xd No, unless you're typing up blatant lies and posting them here, you love teaching, teaching loves you, you're a happy family. lol...now you've got that damned Barney song in my head...thanks a lot! XD
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:34 pm
My work here is done. whee *dusts hands and exits stage left*
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:58 pm
*gives chase after you* get back here!
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:03 pm
Entry #13
So Energy Express is over. Ice Mountain was a bad field trip...it was way too hot and all the kids had to wear pants to keep snakes and poison from getting on their bare legs. It was really dumb and I hope they don't do it again next year. The kids would have had more fun if we had gone to the pool as we do every year, and so would the mentors.
Kerry, our site coordinator, gave the mentors each gifts. I got my shooting star pin (for being a 3rd year mentor) and she also gave me an 8x10 framed photo collage of my kids doing various things, and a small scented candle. I don't quite know what the scent is though. It was sad, but it's another chapter closed in my life. I wish the kids best of luck and I hope I'll see some of them again some day. I really hope this relationship with Taylor keeps up. I'd like to be her mentor for as long as is possible.
Now to go to Snapfish and order the pictures I need and the big poster collage, and a bigger picture of Taylor and I smile
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:10 pm
Aw, sorry that field trip was not as cool as you wanted and good luck with Taylor. <3
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:25 pm
FrozenIntellect Aw, sorry that field trip was not as cool as you wanted and good luck with Taylor. <3 lol thank you smile
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:39 pm
Entry #14
I don't feel like going into too much detail on the baseball game/hershey park. Game was good though. Nats won :3 I'm not exactly a big sports fan but hey it was fun to watch. Got a baseball this time and then bought a hat from one of the vendors outside for $5... go around the corner and get the same hat for $2.50..this was all after the game of course. These hats are knockoffs, but still nice nonetheless. I wouldn't have gotten the 2.50 ones anyway... they didn't have the color I wanted with the right style I wanted.
As for Hershey Park...let's just say I really really hate those preteen middle school kids. Taylor was good on and off throughout the day, which was annoying as all hell, but I dealt with it. In the evening for the last two hours, she and another girl switched. She went with a group of two 13 year olds and the other Rachel (who came with me) gave them her cell. Rachel and I then went off to do the big coasters, as none of those three would ride coasters that flipped, and only Taylor would ride wooden coasters. It was a welcome reprieve, let me tell you.
Something cute to write about...it's been close to 100 degrees here, and humidity makes it even worse. Now I don't live in the south, or the west so I know it's not as hot as it could be...but when your home doesn't have AC, it just plain sucks. Anyway my little sister had put ice water in a pot for the dog to put her feet in...dog hated that so I told her to leave the pot. I took one of the daycare, Tyla, who was already stripped to her diaper and set the pot in front of her... she figured out pretty quickly how fun it was to play in the water and it cooled her down a bit. Her grandparents came and got her and her sister after their naps to get them in some AC..one of those premade agreements with my mom.
Has anyone else watched Without Prejudice and seen tonight's ep? I think they chose some of those panelists on purpose...
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