Evanenscent

Evanescent adj :tending to vanish like vapor sny: passing, transient, transitory, momentary

Okay class, now that we've had our vocab lesson we can go on. I chose this as the title to my blog today for two very good reasons.
First the classes are so dense this summer (each class is only two 1/2 weeks long) that I'm scared everything we have been study will vanish, when it comes time to apply it in Sept.
The second reason I chose this as my title is that it reminds me that this manic, uber crazy schedule is only momentary. It dawned on my yesterday that there are only five weeks left of the summer program before I start teaching. It's going so fast. It seems incredible to think that the bulk of what we need to know to work with children with disabilities, is going to be unloaded on us in the next five weeks. The first couple of weeks have whizzed by. I never knew how much law a special education teacher actually has to know until now. We have to know it inside and out in order to not find ourselves in a due process litigation.
Cohort five.. keepn' it real!

The Virginal Blogger

Well it's offical I'm a teacher. Well qusi-teacher...I am interning in September at Lewis and Clark elementary school in St. Helens. Basically I'm the teacher and have a mentor who comes in weekly to anwser questions. My class is a mixed grade class of 3, 4, and 5 graders. The class is a behaviorl intervention class and most of the kids are classified as emotionally desturbed. That bachelors in psych will come in handy.
Right now I'm in it deep, school that is. I'm in Pacific University's Intern Special Education program. Class run all summer 8am to 4pm with one hour break. Each class is 3 hrs long. One teacher is absolutely a nut job. She sets the room up fung sheui (spelling is atrocious I know) and rings a bowl at the beginning of the class so that we can do our deep breathing and mindfulness excercises. It takes everything in me to keep it together in that class. Most of us lose all decorum and laugh openly. I partially chalk the laughter up to all the stress and lack of sleep.
It's fourth of July weekend and so far I've gone to the blues festival at Tom McCall waterfront park, watched blade trinity at a friends house, been to a wedding and read only one chapter of my copious amounts of homework. Not doing so hot on the studying thing this weekend. Tomorrow I have wakeboarding on the agenda as well as heading up to washington for the civil war re-inactment that's going on. So my only hope for my studies is Monday morning, cuz the rest of the day I'm going to be eating hot dogs and sippn' on a Mikes and playing frisbee.
All have a safe and fun 4th!!!