<p>EK,
Sounds like a great plan. I also see some good ideas from posters here.</p>
<p>Best of luck! Let us know how things go!</p>
<p>well I went to the info session today at Antioch.
( they have a Seattle campus)
There is a BA completion program- that sounds interesting and is more flexible than the BA with elementary ed certification.
Since I will need to get an endorsement for special education on top of the elementary endorsement anyway- I may look into doing the BA completion first and then add the applicable programs for SPED.
I do think that they have a pathway for paras to get certificated- which makes sense- since those folks are already in the field.
I appreciate all teh suggestions- if H was retired- which he is almost- but not quite- we could relocate - ( which could make a lot of sense- someplace with less traffic and lower cost of living?)
But youngest daughter still has two years of high school left- and she would not be pleased ( nor would the dog- to move away from her friends)
But I think I have some clear next steps- which is a nice change from not knowing what the heck I am doing :)</p>
<p>EK - Hope you do join the profession. You always write insightful, sensible posts, and I intuitively feel that you’d be a great teacher. Good luck!</p>
<p>EK, just to clarify, the two programs I mentioned to you do not involve relocation. They are long distance learning programs with an advisor. The students come from all over the country.</p>
<p>thanks for the clarification soozie :)</p>
<p>I am still finding out about it-but I also am thinking about going back and finishing my massage therapy certificate- it would be 1 & 1/2 years as compared to at least several years( more if I went part time) to get my BA plus a while to get endorsed as SPED
In either case I want to work with challenged populations
I have actually always been very interested in physical therapy- and started down that route about um 30 years ago?- but became discouraged because the program at the UW was very competitive.( not to mention just looking at all the prereqs scared me off)</p>
<p>I started to look into massage therapy at that time- but massage- had a reputation of " massage parlors" and that wasn’t what I wanted :p</p>
<p>I began a pretty academic massage school about 8 years ago- and was more than halfway through the program- but for various reasons had to stop- which was really disappointing.</p>
<p>So I am going to find out more about that too- because I think that massage is being used and has a lot of potential to be used even more, to help kids and adults who have health issues like CP and other mobility issues and even emotional issues. It can be very healing to have a really good massage, because there is a sense of true caring that I don’t think that we get enough.</p>
<p>But it is funny how things are falling together- and yesterday I ran into a friend who I never see anymore because * she * is going back to school, to become a respiratory therapist- and she says from going to class- studying- driving Metro ( her new job) and taking care of her new grandkids she doesn’t have any time for anything else.
( I offered to have her come over so she can see my yard to make her feel better-everything kinda went to pot all of a sudden- and its too cold!)</p>