One of the key of teaching in a high needs school that I have learned is that behavior management comes first and teaching comes second. The reason is because if your students aren't focused/behaving, whatever you're teaching isn't getting through. It makes perfect sense but today I wonder if that reasoning is what's holding us back from the ( Read more... )

It's game time tomorrow. I feel a little nervous yet relaxed. There's a lot to think about as a pre-service teacher. Sometimes, just thinking about the responsibilities of a teacher is overwhelming. It's confusing to try to understand how to teach, essentially, raise kids when I feel like I'm still figuring how to organize my life. I guess that ( Read more... )

I just relived a memory of you. So shattered, I felt. It's not a new feeling just a very familiar feeling that I had hide away. Now, you've just resurfaced to restart my life.

I've been spending almost every Wednesday with my niece. It's like my "Tuesday's with Morrie" type of situation but not morbid. It's about inexperience, childhood, reminders, and joys of growing ( Read more... )

Recently I asked a bunch of peeps the "who would you fuck, kill, or marry" for the following artist: Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson. They are three of my favorite artists of all time so I wondered how it would turn out. Who would you fuck, kill, and marry ( Read more... )

I haven't been getting much sleep these days, waking up at 5am or early for no apparent reason but confusion in my head. So, this morning at 4:30am I went for a walk around the "hood" of Van Ness/Chevy Chase. It was peace breathing room time but the thing that got me was that I was the loneliness of it ( Read more... )

No before yes or maybe it's "no before yeah, we can do it" is the state that I'm in right now. It's funny how an optimist became a pessimist or as one of my sister's friends asked me when I was in college, "what political party you fall under" and i said "democrat". He smiled and then said "you're young. you'll be a republican when you get older." ( Read more... )

Swinging kids. I wonder about the word “sleeping like a baby” when I take care of my niece ( Read more... )

For the passed three days I have been taking care of my niece while her mom was on a business trip to Detriot. It's like being a semi-parent. I had to wake my niece up, get her to wash her face and brush teeth, dress her, comb her hair, and drive her to daycare. It's a lot of fun seeing her in the morning b/c I get reminded how big a bed is to a ( Read more... )

TL peeps are very well educated. I think there’s only about 3 of us who is not pursuing or have a Masters or Ph.D. Freaken amazing how well educated everyone is. Oh, I’m one of the one of the three. It’s not that I don’t enjoy learning. School ain’t for me anymore; I just can’t wrap my mind around it anymore ( Read more... )