Hello again! Thanks so much for your kind comments! I just wanted to give everyone an update about my job. I am going to be working at a school for children with autism in Salt Lake. I am so excited about this! I will be working in a preschool classroom. Before I applied I went and observed a classroom and I felt so much excitement thinking about being in there interacting with those kids! The student to teacher ratio is absolutely amazing--it was 2 to 1 when I was observing, and they said they try to keep it at about that. Isn't that phenomenal. I am so excited. My position is an "autism aide" and I will be working with kids, helping them reach specific goals they have, like learning their numbers, matching verbs to pictures of those verbs, and other broad goals like increasing their attention span and decreasing negative behaviors and such. So exciting!! Okay, so I know that may not sound all that exciting to you guys, but it really is for me. And hopefully I will be able to maintain my excitement over it as I am working there. :)
The only drawback to this job is that it's part-time. I'll be working in two two-week summer programs in July and August for 25 hours a week, and then once the regular school year begins in August I'll be working 31 hours a week. They open up the full-time positions to part-time faculty before they open these positions to the public, and so the part-time faculty almost always fill these positions before they would be open to applications from outsiders such as myself. So hopefully a full-time position will open up very soon after I start working there and I will get promoted to full-time. Everyone, keep your fingers crossed.
7 comments:
That is wonderful, Abbi! Congrats! You will be absolutely wonderful with those kids. They will be lucky to have you!
Congratulations on your first job out of college!! It is wonderful that it is work that you are really interested in. That way, you can wake up every morning excited to go to work! You will be full-time before you know it!
My best friends son is autistic. He's now 13. I've seen what she's been through with him and she deserves a medal. The world needs more people like you Abbi. So willing to help these kids get some kind of start in this life. Good luck and keep us posted on how you like it. I know you'll be awesome!!!
You will be amazing with those kids. They are blessed to have you.
I am so glad you got a job you are very excited about! Like Jessi said, they are lucky to have you. I bet they will offer you a full time position in a second!:)
Seriously Abbi, you will be amazing! I have worked with my moms friends autistic little boy since he was a newborn and it is hard work, but so awarding! They are amazing and bring so much happiness! I am so happy for you, you will do amazing and they will love you so much!
Congratulations! It sounds like a perfect fit for you!
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