Introducing Cleo! -OR- How to hit the snooze button on your biological clock.

This is our new Boxer pup, Cleo. She turned 8 weeks old yesterday.

Cleo!

It snowed today.

From Home Sweet Home

Spring Semester

Two days ago I was slightly dismayed to realize that there was only a week left to my Winter break. Now that I've gotten over the initial shock, I'm getting excited for my classes. It seems that, aside from a lab science, all the courses I need yet are my major requirements, which makes it much more interesting for me.

I'm not crazy about the schedule, as I'll be out of the house Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings until almost 9pm, but I'm excited about the classes:

SPED 318: Special Education for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities
Examines the implications of federal mandates for providing educational and supportive services for infants/toddlers/preschoolers with disabilities and their families. Includes identification of, and leadership responsibilities of, personnel involved with infant and early intervention programs and assessing, analyzing and interpreting data from formal and informal sources to be utilized in developing the Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs) are discussed.

SPED 328: Formal and Informal Assessment in Special Education
The administration, scoring and interpretation of assessment devices typically used in psychometric evaluations are stressed. Critical evaluation of such devices in terms of reliability, validity and norming groups is also developed. The integration of the interpretive results of psychometric evaluation with behavioral observation, task analysis and other assessments developed in prerequisite courses is demonstrated.

EDUC 433: Gender & Race Issues in Children’s Literature
(No description in the catalog)

I'm FINALLY starting to see the light at the end of this tunnel... and so excited to get out of the office and into a classroom!