"The High Cost of Education."

         For almost every job that pays well you will have to have a college degree. To get that though you will have to pay a ton of money that the college expects you to have or they will steal money from you and make it sound okay by calling it “students loans”. I have tried to save up money and I’ve been doing pretty good at that and my parents have as well the hard part is that the money we are able to save is no where close to what we actually need.

         The best thing that I can do is to keep applying for scholarships and grants and hope and pray that I will get them. I also applied for y FASFA. I might receive money from the government but with being a pretty average family I don’t see us getting too much. I’m planning to get a second job over the summer to help save up money as well. 

Obamas speech on higher Education.

Creativity Counts

Creativity is being able to make something out of nothing. Everyone is creative but I different ways if you find out how to use your creativity than you will love your job and your life. Showing how to use your creativity is very important it’s just hard finding out how to use it. That’s why a teacher’s job is important.  Teacher does so much more than just teaching a subject. They have to teach their students how to be creative in their own unique way. When a teacher is able to do that then they have really done their job.

Hire me, please!

After reading this Link I believe my strengths in an interview situation would be my wittiness. I am very good at thinking on my feet and a very fast thinker. My weakness is my lack of practice I have with interviews I have only had 3 my whole life. However this is something I could work on by doing practice interviews. Every time I have had an interview I’ve got the job so I think I’m doing pretty good.

Digital Learning Day

In my class I would use the to digital tool Animoto. It would allow me to be able to do notes but with pictures in a cool memorable way. When using animoto people are very interested and want to see what is going on rather than doing regular notes on a power point where people really don’t care to see what’s going on and the lose interest easily.

Make It Happen in 2012!

There are a few things I will need to do to make 2012 a more successful year than my past few.

1.  I will like to be more focused. Too be more focused I will need to keep a planner and be organized when I do my work. I will need to study more and worker a little harder on my time management.

2. I need to prioritize my work better and do things that are more important than waste time on things that do not matter. I will do this by not playing on my phone or on social networking websites.

3. I also need to take advantage of after school tutorials and spend time in more study groups. This will keep me more reliable than how I am now.
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Reflections of an 8th grade Intern!

           I’ve always wanted to be a middle school teacher and I have also wanted to teach history. When I got the chance to teach Eighth grade History at North Richland Middle School I was very excited but I was a little bit nervous. I had always heard people say that middle school students were crazy and difficult to teach but I didn’t worry about that.

The first day that I went I was shy and not sure if this is what I was wanted to do but thought I should give it a chance. The first few days I would just grade papers and take roll and not talk that much but by the two week I was already doing lesson in front of the class and would also help my teacher with lessons.  

Lately I have been writing my own lessons and teaching them to the class. My last lesson, my students wrote a rap over the Declaration of Independence  and presented them to the whole class, they had a great time doing it. To me it seems like my students are really interested in what I have been teaching them and enjoy it as well! I often ask myself why do people tell me not to teach middle school, I have such a great time teaching them. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t have a smile on my face when I leave that class. I have no doubt in my mind that this is what I will be doing in the future.

The Ideal Classroom

I felt very bad for Ms. Hamms class in the article Lewisville ISD trades rows of desks for sofas - Your Houston News: News. In my class room I would like to have a huge classroom being able to show off a lot of my students work and have a lot of important dates in history on there. I would also like to have technology in my classroom so that I will be able to intrigue students and make them want to learn more.