I’m kind of stressing out right now although I know I should just calm down and wait to see what happens. But that just isn’t my style. I’m a stress-er! I found out today that there is a very good possibility that I won’t be done with school in May like I thought I would, thanks to new changes in the definition of a “highly qualified teacher” in No Child Left Behind. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, you are lucky, it means you are not an education major!
Basically part of the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 requires teachers to be “highly qualified” and they are changing the definition of a highly qualified special education teacher. It looks like my choices are to either stay in Hawaii an extra semester (they say "semester" but it's really a lot longer then that) to do a whole other student teacher, or drop the special education part of my major. Everybody keeps asking, “How can they do that to you?” Well, the school really doesn’t have a choice, if they keep it the way it is right now I can graduate and everything like I had planned but I won’t be able to find a job do to the new requirements.
Part of me wants to just say forget it, I’ll just go back to a single major and get my degree and certification as an elementary teacher, but I hate to give up when I’m so close to the finish line. It just seems that they keep moving the finish line farther and farther away. I was so excited to be going home in May and starting my life, it seemed so close and I could finally see the light at the end that motivated me to continue through all the hard times. Now I feel like the light is gone and its kind of hard to find the motivation to keep on going.
I don’t want to drop my special education degree, I really do love it! But I hate the idea of going home for the summer and then coming back at the end of July for more student teaching. That’s more time of me not working and living on my own. Plus I won’t be able to find a job right away after I am certified because it will be in the middle of a school year. My mom says to just suck it up and do the extra time. She says when I look back the extra time won’t be so bad. I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ll end up doing and that it will all work out but for right now when I’m super homesick this is the worst news!
Anyway, that was my rant for today! I need to post about something I’m thankful for. I know that despite all my frustrations right now with school I do have a ton to be thankful for. After all I am going to school in Hawaii. How many people can say that? All of my friends at BYU Provo and dealing with the snow right now and here in Hawaii we are having perfect beach weather, not that I have time to go to the beach. So I’m going to be thankful for that today, being here in Hawaii where there is no snow EVER!
Basically part of the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 requires teachers to be “highly qualified” and they are changing the definition of a highly qualified special education teacher. It looks like my choices are to either stay in Hawaii an extra semester (they say "semester" but it's really a lot longer then that) to do a whole other student teacher, or drop the special education part of my major. Everybody keeps asking, “How can they do that to you?” Well, the school really doesn’t have a choice, if they keep it the way it is right now I can graduate and everything like I had planned but I won’t be able to find a job do to the new requirements.
Part of me wants to just say forget it, I’ll just go back to a single major and get my degree and certification as an elementary teacher, but I hate to give up when I’m so close to the finish line. It just seems that they keep moving the finish line farther and farther away. I was so excited to be going home in May and starting my life, it seemed so close and I could finally see the light at the end that motivated me to continue through all the hard times. Now I feel like the light is gone and its kind of hard to find the motivation to keep on going.
I don’t want to drop my special education degree, I really do love it! But I hate the idea of going home for the summer and then coming back at the end of July for more student teaching. That’s more time of me not working and living on my own. Plus I won’t be able to find a job right away after I am certified because it will be in the middle of a school year. My mom says to just suck it up and do the extra time. She says when I look back the extra time won’t be so bad. I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ll end up doing and that it will all work out but for right now when I’m super homesick this is the worst news!
Anyway, that was my rant for today! I need to post about something I’m thankful for. I know that despite all my frustrations right now with school I do have a ton to be thankful for. After all I am going to school in Hawaii. How many people can say that? All of my friends at BYU Provo and dealing with the snow right now and here in Hawaii we are having perfect beach weather, not that I have time to go to the beach. So I’m going to be thankful for that today, being here in Hawaii where there is no snow EVER!
BYU-Provo:
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BYU-Idaho:
Where would you rather be?
BYU-Hawaii:
BYU-Idaho:
Where would you rather be?
2 comments:
NOOOOOOOOOO! You are coming home! Tell them to suck it!
It doesn't look like that here...yet!
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