Becoming a Professional
Sep. 29th, 2002 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaQuick update -
This Saturday I gave my first professional presentation at a conference. It was only the RUSMP Fall Consortium, nothing big or even state-wide, and certainly not a publication, but it's still a conference presentation. The audience's reception was unenthusiastic but positive. As part of this, the Spouse and I made a late-night Home Dept run and built six Tower of Hanoi sets with washers and dowels. When we finally get to exponential functions, I'll have my group activity ready-made . . .
I also bought a small three-octave keyboard for the purpose of picking out tunes I can't sightread. It looks like my handout for Chanter's Chorus will be at least five chants plus the Belafonte song. I'm enthused.
My mentor teacher has been out sick; her heart problem seems to have recurred. My team keeps getting smaller and smaller . . .
I was at an ARD this week for one of my students. He's mildly gifted all-round and significantly gifted in math and technology. I had made the tentative diagnosis of ADHD (specifically, he has constant fine-motor futzing going on, and he has odd fixations of attention - he'll investigate a cool new function on the calculator all period to the exclusion of actually participating in class, for example) before the ARD, and that appears to have been correct. He's also had major mental/emotional problems in the past, but he seems to be pretty much over them. After the ARD, I sent an e-mail to his Sp. Ed. tracking teacher, saying that, since he's going to have to have another ARD after he's gone through more testing, I'd be happy to be the required teacher for that ARD as well. Apparently I'm the *first* regular ed. teacher to make such a request to her. She reported me to her secretary, to Mr. B, and to RR. I didn't realize it would cause such a stir . . .
CS and GL exist again; I sent them an e-vite to the Spouse's 30th b-day dinner, and they in fact arrived. They're going to try and make Movie Night when they can. I'm thrilled - and some gaming might even evolve out of this, somehow . . .
This Saturday I gave my first professional presentation at a conference. It was only the RUSMP Fall Consortium, nothing big or even state-wide, and certainly not a publication, but it's still a conference presentation. The audience's reception was unenthusiastic but positive. As part of this, the Spouse and I made a late-night Home Dept run and built six Tower of Hanoi sets with washers and dowels. When we finally get to exponential functions, I'll have my group activity ready-made . . .
I also bought a small three-octave keyboard for the purpose of picking out tunes I can't sightread. It looks like my handout for Chanter's Chorus will be at least five chants plus the Belafonte song. I'm enthused.
My mentor teacher has been out sick; her heart problem seems to have recurred. My team keeps getting smaller and smaller . . .
I was at an ARD this week for one of my students. He's mildly gifted all-round and significantly gifted in math and technology. I had made the tentative diagnosis of ADHD (specifically, he has constant fine-motor futzing going on, and he has odd fixations of attention - he'll investigate a cool new function on the calculator all period to the exclusion of actually participating in class, for example) before the ARD, and that appears to have been correct. He's also had major mental/emotional problems in the past, but he seems to be pretty much over them. After the ARD, I sent an e-mail to his Sp. Ed. tracking teacher, saying that, since he's going to have to have another ARD after he's gone through more testing, I'd be happy to be the required teacher for that ARD as well. Apparently I'm the *first* regular ed. teacher to make such a request to her. She reported me to her secretary, to Mr. B, and to RR. I didn't realize it would cause such a stir . . .
CS and GL exist again; I sent them an e-vite to the Spouse's 30th b-day dinner, and they in fact arrived. They're going to try and make Movie Night when they can. I'm thrilled - and some gaming might even evolve out of this, somehow . . .
