First Day of School

Today was officially my first day of school.  It was also my first day as a new special needs high school teacher.  I have a total of five students and out of the five four showed up.  That was OK, it gave me the time to work with the assistants on how to use the TEACCH model.  By the way I have amazing assistants.  They all help out and love the students.  It just makes my life easier.  Any way, the students did a pretty good job at following their schedule for the first time.  It will take some adjusting to make sure the schedules are perfect.  This usually takes about a week. I am also working on getting the Special Olympics set up at our school and I have coaches training this Saturday and next weekend.  I am excited, but it it going to be very exhausting.  I am also working on setting up a catering business with our students.  I will talk to you more about this when we are going to be setting this up in September.  I was stressing out the last couple of days at work, because my computer was down since Friday. Not having a computer is stressful especially when you have to set up an IEP.  Now that we are back in school I will have more interesting things to write about in my blog and pictures of my classroom will be coming soon.