11-17-17 Friday

There is a new class at the school that I am one of 2 paraeducators for.  There are also 2 teachers.  The class is for executive functioning skills and just started a few weeks ago.  There was some learning about the brain and how we remember things and determining left and right brain dominance and a few other things like that.  There has also been cleaning out lockers and making sure the assignment book is being filled out accurately.  Other things as well.  It is a class with potential but due to the way the class time is set up and the students other activities it is not, in my opinion, doing as well as it seems it could.  There was a meeting today to discuss the challenges we are having with the classes during this time period.  While I was driving to my other job I came up with a mess of ideas that I am unsure will work, but I feel there is potential.  The thing is, I am not a teacher and there are rules about paraeducators planning classes.  They don't.  I will be writing up a letter to send to some of the people involved with some of these ideas. 

Troubleshooting is something that I generally enjoy doing.  While I tend to often feel like I am in a bit over my head with this new job I think I am mostly still floating on top.  There are 'duh' moments when I forget things that I should probably know, like Africa is the biggest continent even though it looks like Asia is on a flat map.  I start feeling a little insecure and words disappear.  When I feel overconfident I tend to do stupid things.  It is a double edged sword and why I have tended to stay quiet in the corner most of my life. 

All that said, sleep is calling me.  Tomorrow is Saturday and I can sleep in.  What made me happy today?  A bunch of the para team went out after work today and I was invited along.  I couldn't go because of job #2, but I was invited.  It may have been just because I was there and they felt like they had to include me, but it didn't seem like that.  At least not in a bad way.  So I will chose to feel this is a good thing and not that I was the last person being picked for dodge ball because there was no one else. 

 Early morning sky.

Waiting for our food at Pizza Hut.

Cheese! 

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