Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Blog Assignment 1
Hello out there! As I begin composing my class blog I find myself wondering how to begin. Let's start with my current circumstances. I live in Point Clear, Alabama with my husband Reid, a daughter Maddie, two sons, Fisher and Reid, a dog, a cat, a bunny, and this strange little African frog that lives in a small fish bowl on my desk. I spend most days just dealing with my children. When I have free time, I like to run, and I play on a tennis team once or twice a week. I am training with a friend to run my first half-marathon in the spring.
Before I had three children, I was a high school biology teacher in Mobile. However, unlike most of you in this class, I was not an education major in college and had no intentions of ever being a teacher. But as the saying goes, "never say never." My college education began at Springhill, moved to USA, and culminated with a graduate degree from UAB in public health. I moved back to Mobile to get married and then worked for USA in the College of Medicine doing clinical research. During that period, the opportunity to participate in a grant program targeting math and science professionals arose, and I took advantage of it. I was able to take online classes while teaching and recieve my teaching certificate, all courtesy of the Drexel Grant. My main impetus for pursuing teaching was, oddly enough, a fairly significant salary increase, and better hours -- or so i thought. I was definitely wrong on the later. I taught various science courses for four years, until the birth of my 2nd child. I've been a stay-at-home mom since 2007.
You may ask, why am I here now? Well, my lovely certificate will expire in 2011. So, in order to fulfill the state's requirements to renew my certificate, I must take an approved education course and earn 5 CEU's. This class will help me renew my teaching certificate and hopefully bring me up to speed with the technological world and its application in education. Even if I don't have a chance to get back in the school system, I will always be responsible for teaching my own children.
Before I had three children, I was a high school biology teacher in Mobile. However, unlike most of you in this class, I was not an education major in college and had no intentions of ever being a teacher. But as the saying goes, "never say never." My college education began at Springhill, moved to USA, and culminated with a graduate degree from UAB in public health. I moved back to Mobile to get married and then worked for USA in the College of Medicine doing clinical research. During that period, the opportunity to participate in a grant program targeting math and science professionals arose, and I took advantage of it. I was able to take online classes while teaching and recieve my teaching certificate, all courtesy of the Drexel Grant. My main impetus for pursuing teaching was, oddly enough, a fairly significant salary increase, and better hours -- or so i thought. I was definitely wrong on the later. I taught various science courses for four years, until the birth of my 2nd child. I've been a stay-at-home mom since 2007.
You may ask, why am I here now? Well, my lovely certificate will expire in 2011. So, in order to fulfill the state's requirements to renew my certificate, I must take an approved education course and earn 5 CEU's. This class will help me renew my teaching certificate and hopefully bring me up to speed with the technological world and its application in education. Even if I don't have a chance to get back in the school system, I will always be responsible for teaching my own children.
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