New Placement, New Faces

After spending 5 wonderful weeks in my high school placement at Fairmont Senior, it was time to adventure back to my home-based placement at East Park Elementary School. At my East Park placement, I am in a self-contained special education class. Within this classroom, I work with 4 students for the majority of the day; two students with Autism (one in which is non-verbal), one student with a learning disability, and another student that is mildly impaired. I also have 5 students who come into my classroom for 45 minutes of each day who get extra help in language arts.

I have only been at this placement for 4 days, but already feel very comfortable with my students. I am also very lucky to be placed with a great mentor teacher. Thus far, she has offered a lot of suggestions and good ideas in which I plan to use. She also is very helpful in the aspect that she is always sharing information about teaching strategies or lesson ideas that she newly learns about. I am very excited to spend the rest of the semester here and to work with my new students!