isyne4u
<font color=blue>Next time I get a craving for cak
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First a little background...I am a trained and certified Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. In 2004 I graduated with my master's in Reading Education. The only reason I got this degree was so I could help my deaf students.
Fast forward to spring 2005. I am informed that deaf positions are being cut and that since I don't coach (and the other TOD did) that I was losing my position and she was getting to keep her position. (did I mention that I had been doing this 12 years to her 3). Anyway, it wasn't the other girl's fault and I don't blame her.
In the meantime I was given a reading class with students with Learning Disabilities and Emotional Disabilities. I am not trained for these students and I do not enjoy workinig with them. So this year has been extremely rough. I've been bitter and for the most part hated coming to work. I do my best but it is hard sometimes to be positive.
I'm using a reading program from Scholastic called READ180. At the beginning of the program the students take a reading inventory to determine their reading level...it ranges from BR(Beginning Reader) to 1200 (8th grade level).
Now here's the Joyouse part..
I gave the reading test again today (you do it at the beginning of every quarter) to my 6th grade students. I expected to see some improvement but realisticly..not much...to my surprise...they ALL improved!!! One student went from a BR to 400!!!!!!!!
I'm just so excited to see progress!! Then one of my Deaf students went from 121 to 530!!!!
As silly as it seems after the kids left I burst into tears because I was so happy!!!!! I finally have seen a positive moment in this classroom. I don't even care if none of the other classes do this well....just these 5 little loveable goons have made me so proud!!! I look like a fool grinning this stupid grin, but I finally feel like I have seen success in this class and this next quarter might not be so bad after all!!
If you are still with me...thanks! I know this is a long, tedious post!!
tara
Fast forward to spring 2005. I am informed that deaf positions are being cut and that since I don't coach (and the other TOD did) that I was losing my position and she was getting to keep her position. (did I mention that I had been doing this 12 years to her 3). Anyway, it wasn't the other girl's fault and I don't blame her.
In the meantime I was given a reading class with students with Learning Disabilities and Emotional Disabilities. I am not trained for these students and I do not enjoy workinig with them. So this year has been extremely rough. I've been bitter and for the most part hated coming to work. I do my best but it is hard sometimes to be positive.
I'm using a reading program from Scholastic called READ180. At the beginning of the program the students take a reading inventory to determine their reading level...it ranges from BR(Beginning Reader) to 1200 (8th grade level).
Now here's the Joyouse part..
I gave the reading test again today (you do it at the beginning of every quarter) to my 6th grade students. I expected to see some improvement but realisticly..not much...to my surprise...they ALL improved!!! One student went from a BR to 400!!!!!!!!
I'm just so excited to see progress!! Then one of my Deaf students went from 121 to 530!!!! As silly as it seems after the kids left I burst into tears because I was so happy!!!!! I finally have seen a positive moment in this classroom. I don't even care if none of the other classes do this well....just these 5 little loveable goons have made me so proud!!! I look like a fool grinning this stupid grin, but I finally feel like I have seen success in this class and this next quarter might not be so bad after all!!
If you are still with me...thanks! I know this is a long, tedious post!!
tara
