Let it SNOW!!

This week was perfect for homework!

I get to sit inside and work on my homework in this class, while looking out at the beautiful snow. This just reminds me why I love living in the Northwest!

I thought the Excel Spreadsheet was helpful, for rubrics and the whole grading process. I think this is something I am going to be taking with me, and something that I can use throughout many of my daily chores, not just grading!

Only one more assignment to go, and it's time for a little break! We have all deserved it, let's push through this last assignment!!

Wiki Project

I wanted to write about the Wiki project. I found that that project is something that I will be able to benefit from, and is something that I am sure to use in my classroom. It was easy to understand, and every easy to follow. I think that with a Wiki it will be able to incorporate everything into a curriculum with a Wiki.

Thanksgiving!

I am so excited for Thanksgiving Break. I will finally have time to finish up on studying for the ORELA, and to get a break from homework for at least one week. I was excited to hear that we did get a break, for me I needed it. The course work is a bit tedious I think, but I do understand that it's trying to be ingrained in our minds.
I hope everyone else is excited/ having a good break!

Why I want to be a teacher?

Why would anyone want to be a teacher? All day you are dealing with bratty kids, yelling at you, picking on their peers, and disrespecting you every single day of every single year. So why would I want to be a teacher?

I want to be a teacher because I don't believe any of these myths people say are true. I am working in a school right now and I learn more at my job from the kids then I will ever be able to teach them.

I want to be a teacher because I love to be creative. I want them to realize that I am going to try and stay on the cutting edge of things, and that in order to do these I need their help.

I want to be a teacher because my team is my students. We are going to learn everything together.

I want to be a teacher because their are so many kids in this world that just need someone to listen to them, and I will be that one person they may need.

I want to be a teacher because I remember the best teacher I had ever had and I remember that all she did was correct our work, give us feedback, let us re-do things for full credit, and understood that we were trying. We as students were learning and she was watching.

That is only a few of the reasons that I want to be a teacher. I want to be a mentor for those who need it, and I want to keep myself educated as long as I can. What's the best way to do that? By being involved in education!

philosophy of Education

My philosophy of education consists of mainly my values and beliefs. I believe as a health and P.E. teacher that if I can start teaching students today how to stay healthy then they will be able to follow through with that throughout the whole life. I need to be consistent in how I teach it and be a role model.

I will be teaching students the importance of health and what a healthy lifestyle actually means. In order to do this kids need to learn how to maintain a healthy nutrition and be able to understand the importance of exercise.

My goal is to have my students understand that we need to get started today. Their health today effects their health in 20-30-70 years from now. Let's get these students to start working out TODAY. Let's introduce an apple a day keeps the doctor away TODAY! Too many people are learning theses simple values at a stage in their life that is almost too late.

It is my goal as a teacher to not just teach your child these important life changing choices, but it is my goal for them to continue and implement them in their everyday life choices starting TODAY!

Week 3

I loved the idea of having youtube/teachertube involved into my curriculum. I found some funny videos that pertain to my health class that I will be teaching this next week but my only problem is I can't use it. Why? Because my school filters out anything from teachertube or youtube. Does anyone have any ideas besides placing it onto a flash drive of how to get around this?

It doesn't surprise me reading about cyberbullying. There was going to be a time when this came, I just hope that there is going to be a time, soon, and it will stop. I think as long as most parents try and filter what there kids are doing or what websites it may prevent some of this cyberbullying.

Week 2

Week 1 has come and gone, and week two is already upon us. This class is a bit more stressful then I had expected. Having to learn and guide yourself through everything is extremely challenging. As I understand their is an instructor trying to guide me through this, it has not been as successful for me as I wish it would be. I am going to be optimistic and hope that as this course continues I will be able to take more advantage of it and have an understanding of how technology can be used from home, as we have not yet been exploring the technology that comes within a classroom. Making a web page was the hardest thing yet. The amount of time I had spent on that was not managed on my part very well. I felt the directions were a bit hard to follow, but now that it is over I seem to understand it a little better but not fully.

I hope week two starts become a little easier for me, and I can start learning more and stop being so frustrated.