I know it's about time I came back.
Well it is mid summer's break and I need to get back in the game.
I need a distraction I'm over analyzing my life and cleaning it up, all aspects.
I have been promoted, in the teaching world this does not come with a raise. My principal called me in to her office and asked why I was on the transfer list. I'm think should I be honest or skirt the issue. I decide best call is not to have secrets. So I said I'm sorry but I need a change, I can't be a kindergarten teacher for another 5 years. I promised myself so I would not get in a teacher rut that I would change some aspect of my teaching career drastically after 5years. She asked if something comes up would I be interested in staying. I told her yes.
See my personality is different from many teachers, well most people. I have a very dry wit and an honest personality who is eager to improve myself. Odd qualities to have in the teaching realm.
It took me 4 years to prove myself and I really had no desire to start at the bottom again.
So two weeks before school I'm getting scared I had yet to have an offers, friends were being transferred and I was fearing I was going to be stuck here another damn year. So I just kept praying and put all my fears and worries on the Lord shoulders.
Then I get called into the principals office, yes it still is scary to be called into the principals office. You start sweating and listing off in your head things that could have gotten me in trouble and how can I talk my way out of this.
The principal sits me down and she tells me the best news that I have heard my whole teaching career.
She offers me a promotion to become a reading recovery teacher. The program takes the lowest readers in first grade and teach them to read at the average level of a first grader. The program pays two graduate courses, books, and application fees. With this program I can go anywhere from here I can become a reading specialist or ESL specialist. Still those jobs do not have a raise either.
Needless to say I waited a couple days, researched and made it look like I was not desperate. Then I accepted my father was so happy he says he will pay for the rest of grad school to become a reading specialist.
God does listen and God does provide.
Yeah...
Well it is mid summer's break and I need to get back in the game.
I need a distraction I'm over analyzing my life and cleaning it up, all aspects.
I have been promoted, in the teaching world this does not come with a raise. My principal called me in to her office and asked why I was on the transfer list. I'm think should I be honest or skirt the issue. I decide best call is not to have secrets. So I said I'm sorry but I need a change, I can't be a kindergarten teacher for another 5 years. I promised myself so I would not get in a teacher rut that I would change some aspect of my teaching career drastically after 5years. She asked if something comes up would I be interested in staying. I told her yes.
See my personality is different from many teachers, well most people. I have a very dry wit and an honest personality who is eager to improve myself. Odd qualities to have in the teaching realm.
It took me 4 years to prove myself and I really had no desire to start at the bottom again.
So two weeks before school I'm getting scared I had yet to have an offers, friends were being transferred and I was fearing I was going to be stuck here another damn year. So I just kept praying and put all my fears and worries on the Lord shoulders.
Then I get called into the principals office, yes it still is scary to be called into the principals office. You start sweating and listing off in your head things that could have gotten me in trouble and how can I talk my way out of this.
The principal sits me down and she tells me the best news that I have heard my whole teaching career.
She offers me a promotion to become a reading recovery teacher. The program takes the lowest readers in first grade and teach them to read at the average level of a first grader. The program pays two graduate courses, books, and application fees. With this program I can go anywhere from here I can become a reading specialist or ESL specialist. Still those jobs do not have a raise either.
Needless to say I waited a couple days, researched and made it look like I was not desperate. Then I accepted my father was so happy he says he will pay for the rest of grad school to become a reading specialist.
God does listen and God does provide.
Yeah...
direwolff:
i wish someone like you was around when i was in first grade. i remember my first grade reading teacher shaking her head at me, like i was a lost cause. nobody figured out i was dyslexic until i was in college. you have the chance to save some kid from 12 years of undo struggle and ridicule, just by getting their reading skills off to the right start. that's pretty cool... best of luck! 
standardprincess:
Great news! Best of luck!