Working Again

I wish I could take the rest of the summer off at work. Honestly, it doesn't even have to do with wanting to enjoy the hot weather. I just received my student teaching placements and now that I know what school I will be at, during student teaching, like the dork that I am, I just want to spend the summer preparing for this. I'm already nervous and it's stressing me out. I'm great at public speaking, but let's face it, these kids can sometimes really get the best of you. Fortunately, I have a lot of patience and I have been waiting for this for a long time. I might contact the school district early, as soon as my summer classes are over so I can take a look at the curriculum and what needs to be covered. I want to be a step ahead. Nuts huh???
I'm trying to start my grant writing. I was impressed by what Prof. Baldwin has discussed in class in terms of getting "money". I going to be working with children of all ages and I want to make a significant difference, but let's face it, in this world nothing is easy and if you have the money it helps a lot. My ultimate goal is to come up with a solution that the Department of Education implements nationwide. I believe that we should all have the opportunity to learn a second language and acquire it with a native like accent, which has been proven to only be possible before the age of 12. I want to implement second language acquisition starting in Kindergarten, when our kids "spongy brain" is at it's best ever. The curriculum for it would require significant socialization with native speakers of the foreign language as well as an well developed academic literacy involving writing and reading in the foreign language as well. We cannot say we know a language unless we can speak it, write it and read it. Not only do we need to learn these levels of a language, but we need to know when to use social language and academic language according to the situation or it's context. In today's world, where we are emerging globally with different worlds it's highly useful to communicate in more than one language. I believe in this and I wan to make it known.