One, two, three...Listening ears!
At the Early Childhood Care and Education programm at CACC, there are two main teachers.
Mrs. Downs is the person that teaches all of the high-school students everything we know about children and teaching. She is the backbone of the program, and her knowledge pertaining to child psychology and teaching methods are matched by nobody. She builds the structure of the school and guides us through all of the lesson planning and lesson preparation, and her devotion to the program is extraordinary.
Mrs. Rogers is the pre-school lab supervisor, and she is the main executer. Without her, the flow of the whole program would be disrupted, and she is the genius behind all of our curriculum and routine. She is exemplary as far as her methods and handling of real-life situations in the child-care environment, and it is my pleasure to be the understudy of such a competent individual.
I mention this because there is a balance on both sides of our program that makes it extraordinarily unique, efficient, and most of all, objective and educational.
This morning, Mrs. Rogers addressed the class and told us that Mrs. Downs had been in a severe car accident over the week-end. I'm not going to go into her injuries, but if all of her treatment goes absolutely perfect, the absolute minimum amount of time she could return to work would be eight weeks...and that's in an ideal scenario. It's possible she may not be back for the rest of the year.
Not only has a wonderful friend and colleague of mine been struck hard, but the delicate balance of our program has taken an incapacitating blow.
It's going to be up to a *couple* of the *competent* second-year students, and one or two of the dedicated first-years (Myself and Amber, perhaps the *only* two dedicated first-years) to really step up and keep the program running. And, unlike responsible blogging, this really is a new wave of responsibility that I'm not so sure I'm ready to take upon myself.
I don't know if we're capable of being as versatile as the New England Patriots.
I really want to do something for Mrs. Downs.... but we're looking at several weeks before she gets visitors.
Mrs. Downs is the person that teaches all of the high-school students everything we know about children and teaching. She is the backbone of the program, and her knowledge pertaining to child psychology and teaching methods are matched by nobody. She builds the structure of the school and guides us through all of the lesson planning and lesson preparation, and her devotion to the program is extraordinary.
Mrs. Rogers is the pre-school lab supervisor, and she is the main executer. Without her, the flow of the whole program would be disrupted, and she is the genius behind all of our curriculum and routine. She is exemplary as far as her methods and handling of real-life situations in the child-care environment, and it is my pleasure to be the understudy of such a competent individual.
I mention this because there is a balance on both sides of our program that makes it extraordinarily unique, efficient, and most of all, objective and educational.
This morning, Mrs. Rogers addressed the class and told us that Mrs. Downs had been in a severe car accident over the week-end. I'm not going to go into her injuries, but if all of her treatment goes absolutely perfect, the absolute minimum amount of time she could return to work would be eight weeks...and that's in an ideal scenario. It's possible she may not be back for the rest of the year.
Not only has a wonderful friend and colleague of mine been struck hard, but the delicate balance of our program has taken an incapacitating blow.
It's going to be up to a *couple* of the *competent* second-year students, and one or two of the dedicated first-years (Myself and Amber, perhaps the *only* two dedicated first-years) to really step up and keep the program running. And, unlike responsible blogging, this really is a new wave of responsibility that I'm not so sure I'm ready to take upon myself.
I don't know if we're capable of being as versatile as the New England Patriots.
I really want to do something for Mrs. Downs.... but we're looking at several weeks before she gets visitors.