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Posted by cc
on 1/14/2010, 2:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Discouraged"
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Agree with EVERYTHING said above. I'm +30 years exp now. Years ago I was feeling so low at one point that I actually went to a psychologist, and she said the same thing that was mentioned above: It's a good thing we're questioning ourselves. It shows diligence, concern and so on. I'll also add that it seems like I hit a wall every few years and doubt myself about something. I have sent apraxic students onto high school and, after lots of early years improvent, I don't think we made a bit of improvement the last 3 years they were in jr high with me. I was constantly saying "But you should have heard them in kdg!" Here's a few other suggestions:
1.) Do you ever take a mental health day?
2.) How about a FUN DAY with your students? Read to them, color, play a game, find some books w/cds in your library and let the cd do the reading. It's ALL language.
3.) Stay in touch via this forum and any other way you can with other slps.Frequently, we're the only one in our schools or don't often see the others in our district.Classroom teachers have someone to go to everyday who understands their frustrations. We don't.
4.) One of the worst couple of years I had was when the other slp was a person who felt the need to make herself look good even at the expense of making me and others look bad. I could not go to her with problems. She saw it as a sign of weakness and made sure everyone we worked with knew that I was 'dumb'. She didn't last here long. This was early in my career and I was nearly devastated (until a few of us compared notes. She was bad-mouthing a lot of people.She didn't last long here).Since then, I go out of my way to compliment, share. listen, ask advice from other slps, LD teachers, classroom teachers. (even admins!)
Wow--guess I needed to vent too. Hope this helps.
Anyone here, feel free to email me (little envelope above).
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