1 I will have high expectations. I will be your biggest cheerleader. 2 I will be tough. 3 But I will also be quick to smile and laugh. I will bring joy to our classroom, I will welcome you every morning with warmth because I want you to experience school as a happy place, as a place where joy and wonder and laughter are encouraged. 4 I will value you and your context. 5 I will learn right alongside you.

Be well, be edified and enjoy! August 14, 2015. After a one year leave from school to follow my bliss, I have officially returned to my post, nearly ready to welcome students in just a few short days. What ego tricks is my mind playing on me? The situation has made me think more deeply about change. But I suspect we often le.

Blogging and the Immigrant Experience. Blogging and the Immigrant Experience. Students are not Allowed in Here! August 10, 2015. This post was originally published in The Synapse. Okay, guys so not top fashion but this was 6 years ago! Read the rest of the story here.

Teacher as Reader and Writer. Taking a risk with technology. After two weeks in the class all alone it was sort of a risk to also incorporate technology into the class. It is an exciting time by the second week of take over and I attempted to start a Wikispace with my class. You might wonder what about. Well it is! First Day Last official day. Students made a book and called it Clowny with a chance of Plane Crash. I loved that writing can be so much fun.

After quickly showing the first graders in my class how to make a post to our brand new science blog, I was a little concerned with how this little experiment of mine would go. Even with the simplest of platforms that I could find, there are so many steps and I could see their faces filled with confusion and concern while I showed them how it would work.

An uncommon journey into the field of Education. When do you take a stand? May 26, 2014. Letting the Superintendent know my opinion? When do teachers take a stand, or do they? Soon we will be hearing a lot about our state taking a stand. I cannot help but wonder if the cart is being put before the horse again where perhaps a combination of quality professional development for teachers and more social support systems in communities needs to happen to boost student performance before teachers have to prove.

Learning about learning to better serve the community.

Now I want to touch on the importance of giving feedback to our students. 8211; Get to know which students are able to hear blunt feedback and take it and work hard to improve, and get to know which students need you to build up their confidence by pointing out what you noticed them doing well and giving feedback that shows you are proud of them.

A New Culture of Learning. I recently finished an intriguing book that is less of a book about technology, but more a book about the social shifts in how we learn due to the dramatic changes in technology. A New Culture of Learning. By Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown describes how the mechanistic nature in which we educate our students does not match the way people are learning outside of school and in the workplace.

Thoughts, observations, and reflections. This entry was posted in EDUC 425. 8211; Passport to Your National Parks. 8211; Newbery Award Books. This entry was posted in EDUC 410.