magnificent

I just ended my first full week of teaching. I have 8 wonderful students. Monday and Tuesday were kind of rough as far as the flow of the day, but once I reworked my lesson plan and allowed more space for flexibility and downtime, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were great.

My first IEP meeting is next Friday and I must say I'm pretty proud of myself for organizing it and getting the team together for it. But I found out that I have two triennial evaluations in October; which in the world of special education, is a very big deal. It consists of a battery of official psychological and cognitive skill assessments that decide what special education services the student receives. To give you an idea of what that means, the other SH teacher I work with told me that she has only had two triennials in her 5 yr career, and I have two tri's in my second month of teaching!