The fun stuff!

I don't know how it is at other elementary schools, but our counselor has ample opportunity to be part of the fun during the school day.  She is the lead person in organizing field trips, UIL, and the knighting ceremonies.  She also puts on the "Cool Cranes" party at the end of each six weeks to reward those with good behavior.  I've had a really good time doing my small part in helping her and attending more events than I normally would.  I can thank this practicum for that!  I enjoy this particular role in the counselor job.  She gets to be huge part of recognizing these kiddos for a job well done.  It's really a breath of fresh air.  I pray that wherever I end up in a counseling job that I too will get to positively reinforce the kids as much as she does.

Going, going, gone

Well, she came and she went.  I'm talking about Dr. McGlamery.  She even brought her dear husband!  We had a great visit, and my questions were answered.  Most of you probably know by now not to stress about her visit, but just in case you are...stop.  It's refreshing!

I think the 160 hours are going to be somewhat simple to obtain.  All those conversations with the diagnostician, counselor, principal, and co-teacher about my many many struggling kiddos count for practicum.  All the ARDs count.  Gosh!  I'll be scheduling parent conferences for all my students and those count.  So cool!

Dr. McGlamery is Coming!

Tomorrow I get to visit with Dr. McGlamery!  I'm excited.  Our school has a really cool character education program, and it has worked out for her to come to see some of our students be "knighted" for the trait of respect.  I'm looking forward to her visit.

I've finished my autobiography...but I can't seem to get it uploaded on this blog yet.  First off...don't get overly excited ya'll...I'm not a technology buff.  Maybe it will finally finish processing, or basically giving me difficulty, and then you can see what I did.  It certainly caused some stress in my life, but I enjoyed looking for pictures of myself.  It made me realize how so often all the pictures are about my kids as I had to really search to find me.  I really only used pictures from the past 7 years or so...the hair cuts were interesting.  haha!

I sympathize with all of you who are taking a big load this semester.  I was going to take 12 hours, but after a near constant headache in the month of December, as I stressed about the Spring semester, I dropped back to 9 hours.  I'm taking Ed Law and Professional Orientation.  Pray for me and that Ed Law class!

My Babies!

Spring 2011

I am currently teaching 3rd grade in Crane, Tx.  I am working on my masters in school counseling, as I am ready to move into a slightly different direction than that of a classroom teacher.  I look forward to working with children in a different way.  I've known since my first year of teaching that I did not desire to teach for the duration of my career, but it took me ten years to figure out just exactly which avenue to follow.  I've really enjoyed my counseling courses and my new vision of the school systems through a counselor's eyes.