This year, I added "Dollars for Dresses" - give us $20, we can get one dress for a cast member. Patron ads in the play program became our biggest fund-raising event.
That's what I call it: fund-raisers that reap the largest benefits with the least amount of effort. All I had to do was figure out how to pay myself back. I would use my own money - the kids deserved it. There was EC (extra curricular) money to run an after school club, but not to actually fund a production. And the seed for the Drama Club was planted.Īs you can imagine, there was no money in the school's budget for a play. Each class was to contribute "something." It hit me: why doesn't our community do a holiday play? I would even write it! To be honest, I'm not sure if my fellow teachers thought it was a good idea at first or if they were just really happy NOT to have to make up something but either way I got the go ahead. The opening first came through a winter assembly. And so my idle mind starting trying to figure out what I could do.
Needless to say, I didn't feel as though my talents were being used. A video and brief conversation was about it. We didn't receive much training on how we would implement inclusion and co-teaching. Our version of inclusion did not get off to a great start my expertise in accessing curriculum and differentiation was not being utilized well. Finally, came inclusion the troublesome students would not only stay in the classroom but I come with them.
Next came my own classroom: now the more troublesome students didn't even have to be in the other classroom. I was, after all, taking the more troublesome students. I began as a 6th through 8th grade learning support teacher who took students out of class and into the resource room, often to the delight of the classroom teacher.
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