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I started off a school girl with pressure all around

Good grades and honor society, college sure I would be bound

Uncertain of my future another route I took

Exploring the world for 7 years was a different way to look

Many thought the ships would turn me on my feet

Instead the Navy brought me fun and travel from an airplane seat

“Being an Aircrewman is not an easy job”

And once I had a family I wouldn’t last for long.

I am now married with a beautiful child

Any happier I could not be

Working on a new career, one suited just for me.

Reading, writing, mentoring young minds for me to hold

Hoping to give them everything for their future to be bold.

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There is so much I have to learn. Even when I’ve been teaching for 20 years I’ll still believe there is more for me to learn. In my field of teaching techniques and technologies are always evolving and teaching need to keep up with these changes.

For the here and now, I’m excited to learn how to handle a classroom. A huge deterrent for me from teaching high school is my worry that I won’t be able to hold me open against any opposition or peer on peer dilemmas. I want to be able to positively and effectively mange my future classroom.  I also feel feel there a lot more I need to learn in my subject field of English. I have the passion about reading and writing I just need the fundamentals to give me more of an expert view.

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The Navy gave me a lot and I loved every minute of it! The Navy made me an expert in my job and taught me techniques to train others. Training adults in the Navy is obviously a little different than teaching young minds but it helped me gain confindence in myself and what I can bring to the table.

I’ve learned the importance of leadership and have first hand experienced bad learders. My take away was always evaluating the negative traits from those bad leaders and focusing in on my own presence and treatment of my subordinates. I want to be someone those under my leadership is comfortable coming to me for help and direction. These experiences in the Navy I believe will help in my future as a teacher.

I’m want to teach my students confindence in themselves and what they bring to the table. My hope to teach 8th grade is my hope to give my students resources and skills through reading and writing as they not only transition to high school but through life as well.

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Provide a safe and positive atmosphere for learning and growing

Teach academics and help students grow as individuals

Teaching beyond with conflict resolution, self efficacy, and communication

Push for the state and individual school district to have the most control over curriculum choices

Curriculum should be as individualized as possible with opportunities to learn through differentiated instruction

Progressivism

Existentialism

I want to be an approachable and trustworthy figure in my students lives

I want my students to leave my classroom with more confidence in understanding themselves.