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Raindrops on Roses...
Musings of a Novice Teacher
Created on 2006-06-11 01:42:52 (#10425755), last updated 2009-11-25
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Basic Info| Name: | T'sa |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 10-26 |
| Location: | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States |
BioI'm a thirty-three year old, second year teacher at an amazing, ever-improving elementary school here in beautiful Colorado Springs. I teach fifth grade, and love every second of it...even the seconds that I want to smack my head on the desk out of frustration. Kids are amazing creatures, and they make me grin more often than anything else.
I am this >< close to finishing my master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction--just a leadership portfolio and practicum/thesis to go! In my spare time enjoy watching MythBusters, Dirty Jobs, reading whatever I can get my hands on (read the first non-kid, non-teaching book in July--the last one was the last Harry Potter when it came out...), and shopping. I suspect that if money allows, I'll keep working to further my education somehow...maybe a PhD someday. I take free, district-sponsored seminars as often as I can and read a TON of books on how to enhance learning for my kids.
Why would I torture myself like this?
It'll make me a better teacher for my students. And it'll show my students that learning doesn't ever end. You can still be in your mid-thirties (oh GOD...am I in my mid-thirties???) and still have things to learn. I *love* learning new stuff. Even all the time I spend watching the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, TLC, NGC, and all those other educational sorts of channels is time I'm learning. So what if it is just learning that firing a cannonball through a faux pirate ship wouldn't kill four piggy pirates or give them life-threatening ship-shrapnel injuries. It's still learning. (Didja know that daVinci was a vegetarian?) Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I am a geek at heart. (I also watch Star Wars/Trek Tech when it's on...)
I intend to marry and spend the rest of my life with the most wonderful man I've ever known, whom I love with all my heart--he knows who he is. I want to find my inner June Cleaver for him, but I still want to teach because I tend to get bored easily if I'm not educationally stimulated and feel an incredible need to go shopping when I'm bored. That would be bad. Don't want to bankrupt us!
So that's me...in a nutshell. And what a nutshell it is!
I am this >< close to finishing my master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction--just a leadership portfolio and practicum/thesis to go! In my spare time enjoy watching MythBusters, Dirty Jobs, reading whatever I can get my hands on (read the first non-kid, non-teaching book in July--the last one was the last Harry Potter when it came out...), and shopping. I suspect that if money allows, I'll keep working to further my education somehow...maybe a PhD someday. I take free, district-sponsored seminars as often as I can and read a TON of books on how to enhance learning for my kids.
Why would I torture myself like this?
It'll make me a better teacher for my students. And it'll show my students that learning doesn't ever end. You can still be in your mid-thirties (oh GOD...am I in my mid-thirties???) and still have things to learn. I *love* learning new stuff. Even all the time I spend watching the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, TLC, NGC, and all those other educational sorts of channels is time I'm learning. So what if it is just learning that firing a cannonball through a faux pirate ship wouldn't kill four piggy pirates or give them life-threatening ship-shrapnel injuries. It's still learning. (Didja know that daVinci was a vegetarian?) Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I am a geek at heart. (I also watch Star Wars/Trek Tech when it's on...)
I intend to marry and spend the rest of my life with the most wonderful man I've ever known, whom I love with all my heart--he knows who he is. I want to find my inner June Cleaver for him, but I still want to teach because I tend to get bored easily if I'm not educationally stimulated and feel an incredible need to go shopping when I'm bored. That would be bad. Don't want to bankrupt us!
So that's me...in a nutshell. And what a nutshell it is!
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