ECE with Ms. Christine

This fall, I will be doing the first half (semester) of my student teaching experience at an International Baccalaureate school.  I was wondering if anyone out there knows anything about the International Baccalaureate early years programme or if anyone teaches at an International Baccalaureate School.  I want to know as much as I can about it.  I am researching the topic but I always feel that first hand experience is best. Looking forward to hearing about your experience.  :) Thanks Everyone, ~ Christine

Well, this morning I woke up to find that my grades for the summer semester had posted.   I was incredibly surprised and pleased to see a 4.0 for the semester.  It just goes to show what hard work and determination can do.  This is such a change considering I barely completed my undergraduate degree.    This just goes to show to me that once a person finds their calling and their passion there is no stopping them.   I'm just so very happy to finally have found mine.   

This past week was the end of the summer semester.  I am on pins and needles waiting for my grades to post.  I am pretty sure that I did very well in my Reading Endorsement Course.  In this course I was able to develop a plan and tutor a student for six weeks.  It was a short period of time but it was still a great learning experience.  I also took Emergent Literacy.  This course was incredibly difficult.  The professor was nice, but the course was set up in such a way that it challenged me more than any other course that I have taken thus far in my course work. More importantly this weekend was an incredibly amazing weekend.  My best friend in the education program got married on Saturday.  AND while we were at her reception, I got news that my best friend of the past 5 years was in labor.  She is like a sister to me and I was so excited to know that my niece was about to be born.  She recently moved out of the state (back closer ...