OWL training approaches.

[rivka]

Tomorrow afternoon I leave for OWL training. It's being held at a Swedenborgian retreat center outside of Philadelphia. (I just like to say "Swedenborgian.") The place looks beautiful, but that probably doesn't matter, because the training schedule is crazy intense: on Saturday, for example, we're in training from 9am to 9:30pm. Still, I'm looking forward to it. I've heard that it's fun.

I'm really hoping that I come home feeling competent to teach this course! Parent orientation is just in a couple of weeks. I keep reminding myself that this has been a very successful curriculum nationwide, which must mean that the teachers don't have to be able to walk on water in order to make it work.

Michael and Alex are going to be solo for the weekend. We've done this once before, last January, but Alex was a lot younger. I'm not sure how it's going to go. We've explained to her a couple of times that I'm going away to a special school, and that I'm going to have dinner there and sleep there, and she will stay just with Papa until I come home. And I made her a little calendar to map out how long it will be until I come home, and what she'll do in the meantime. She's still pretty unclear on time concepts, so I don't know if the calendar will be helpful or not.

Any recommendations from the other parents out there? Also, I'm putting the calendar below the cut, and would appreciate advice on making it clearer.






This is supposed to convey: On Friday, she'll go to nursery school. One night will go by. On Saturday, she'll have a play date with Zoe and spend time with Papa. Another night will go by. On Sunday, she'll go to church. Then she'll see our friends Jen and Megary. After that, Mama comes home.

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful weekend! It sounds like a lot of fun, actually. :-)

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think it will be fun too! I think we learn how to lead the hands-on exercises by actually experiencing them during the training, so it shouldn't just be a bunch of sitting around listening to lectures and having sober discussions. And I'm guessing that the kind of people who sign up to teach OWL are interesting and fun to hang out with.

Plus, the food at the retreat center is reportedly excellent.

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

My brain went a very bad direction with lead the hands-on exercises by actually experiencing them.

On a more serious note, from what you've said of the class, it should be an interesting thing to lead, and it's definitely important.