When not at school, I am most likely at work. I am a swing manager at McDonald's. There's not much to say about that except that it can be extremely stressful at times and requires a good amount of responsible intentions.
In the very limited free time I happen to acquire, I am often gaming. Though it may make me sound like a nerd to say it, I love Terraria and World of Warcraft. I also like to read romance novels, because they never have a sad ending. NEVER.
I have a rescue mutt named Bailey, who for all intents and purposes is my baby. See picture for his cuteness.
I have a rescue mutt named Bailey, who for all intents and purposes is my baby. See picture for his cuteness.
What brought me to education was the appeal of doing something different everyday. I love children, and want whatever I do to be meaningful and helpful in someway. Being a teacher also offers the appeal of daily intellectual challenges. I really want to teach 4th grade and up, because while I like the sweetness of lower grades, my natural inclination to "give in" to cuteness is definitely not a strong point. I like the challenges that adolescents present, as they are commonly something I feel I can relate to or at least understand.
When it actually comes to teaching, it is not so much the content I am worried about teaching, but the way in which I present it. I want to make learning easy and meaningful, where I present information in a way that appeals to my students.
When reading the syllabus, the things that stood out the most for me were the assignments. Honestly, they seem very valuable as a learning experience, but very time- and mind-consuming. The Service Learning Project, for example; I know I do not have the time or ability to commit to visits to Hawkins, but the alternative, the Blogfolio, seems really unclear as to how often and how much it will demand. Everything that is required of this in this course alone seems a lot to cover in the course of a semester, but maybe I'm simply over-complicating matters.
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When reading the syllabus, the things that stood out the most for me were the assignments. Honestly, they seem very valuable as a learning experience, but very time- and mind-consuming. The Service Learning Project, for example; I know I do not have the time or ability to commit to visits to Hawkins, but the alternative, the Blogfolio, seems really unclear as to how often and how much it will demand. Everything that is required of this in this course alone seems a lot to cover in the course of a semester, but maybe I'm simply over-complicating matters.
From reading about our assignments, I think a big part of this course is communication with peers, technology, and using and discovering resources available to us as teachers. Given the subject matter in which we are being taught, I gather that the subject of these discussions and reflections are going to be about (1) how our students learn and develop in multiple ways, and (2) how to teach students how to be learners through literacy, and not just acquire the content we teach to them in class.
