Starting a new job!

After much interviewing with various schools, I have been hired to teach fourth graders with visual impairments this school year. I'm really excited, as I am also enrolled in the Teacher of Visually Impaired (TVI) second licensure program, so I will finally be an official Intervention Specialist. This is something I've wanted to be for many years, but the path to get there was quite circuitous.

Of course I know what I'm doing...right? While I know the nuts and bolts of teaching and working with children who have various disabilities, I'm excited and nervous about the The Person In Charge Of The Classroom EVERY DAY. All by myself. I finally get the chance to try out all of these ideas I have read about for so many years and see if they actually work-yay! I'm eager to get started, but still have a few final hurdles in my path.

I need a background check sent to my school's HR department, which I got started on today. The school is in a brand new building, so I have no idea what my classroom looks like or how to get into the building. Or what time school starts, or what other impairments my students might have in addition to visual ones, what their reading level(s) are so I can find appropriate books, if textbooks are already picked out or if I need to do that, or what technology is available... or really anything at all except that the students' first day is August 20.

As my mind races a million miles a minute, I try to relax and realize that I can do this. I have been training for years to do just this thing and it's going to be great.