https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas Made with joy en-us 2018-01-14 23:55:20 UTC 2018-06-27 04:39:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png jwoodota https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314762 Personal: I have been married 8 years,we area blended family consisting of 6 adult children and one forever child who is 11. We call our son our forever child because we just adopted him a year ago and because he has Down Syndrome and we believe he will always be a kid at heart. I am a Veterans daughter, born in Germany, raised in Lacey, Washington "Retired" in Phoenix where my parents were originally from. I spend my free time being a wife, mamma, fishing buddy and camp cook! Oh and attending College A LOT! ]]> 2018-01-15 00:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314762 jwoodota https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314827 Professional: I was a stay at home mom until 2010. I earned an Associate's Degree to be an Occupational Therapist Assistant in 2012. I then earned my Bachelor's Degree in Professional Development and Advanced Patient Care in 2014. I worked as a therapist for children with disabilities until our adoption was final and then made the decision to earn a special education degree for future career development. I am currently working as a teaching intern in a resource classroom.  ]]> 2018-01-15 00:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314827 jwoodota https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314906 When I made the decision to stop practicing as a therapist and begin a teaching career my colleagues all had 1 question; "Why would you want to teach?" The short answer is you cant buy time. Our decision to adopt was because we could and we believed that if we could that we should. I decided that I should not be paying others to now raise the child we adopted. I needed to be on his schedule and that is school based. School where therapy jobs are few and special education teachers are fewer. No matter how great the challenge at the end of the day I can do both be a mom and teach! ]]> 2018-01-15 00:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221314906 jwoodota https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221315631 I am supposed to make a difference in the life of special needs children, as a teacher with a therapy degree or as a therapist with a teaching degree. Once I have both titles I have a life goal of using them both.......Maybe entrepreneur will be my next title!!]]> 2018-01-15 00:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jwoodota/bigideas/wish/221315631