I arrived at my beloved little brick oven classroom/closet at around 7 AM -ish, and apart from a brief jaunt to run pick up the kids from school when they were dismissed at noon, I did not leave my little unventilated, windowless hidey-hole until nearly 6 PM tonight. My arms were sticking to my desk while I was trying to enter information into the computer. The kids were there with me the entire afternoon as well. I was really proud of them; they all found things to occupy themselves... hallway races, etc... and since the place was EMPTY, it didn't bother anyone. I provided them with snacks, toys, paper & markers, all sorts of goodies.
When I got home, I turned on the Cartoon Network for them and disappeared into my nice, cool, air-conditioned bedroom where I proceeded to take the longest shower EVER.
Why, you ask, was I there until 6 PM on a Friday? In June? Well, for special-ed teachers, there's these little paperwork things called IEPs, or Individual Education Plans. Each SPED student has one, and it's a complicated stack of instructions for how these guys have to be handled in the public school system. Every year it gets reviewed and must be reprinted with changes, milestones, goals, evaluations, etc... it's always been my favorite part of being a SPED teacher. Mm-hmm. Anyway, I've got to wrap them all up for the year, but because this was my first year, I've still got a lot to learn about Iowa IEP forms. The poor SPED consultant and I spent hours and hours on the phone, and I sent things to her office to print out, and she'd call me back to tell me what needed changing. She finally had mercy on me & the kids and told me we could finish it up on Monday.
I'll be taking a long lunch "break" on Monday when I leave school to go to my first class at Drake U.
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