end of the year

As we get to the end of the year I was thinking about what we have talked about throughout the year. This class has really got me thinking about issues that I am going to face as a teacher and it only gets me more excitied to go out and teach. The problems that you face teaching are going to be tough, but if you can work through them and succeed it will be unbelievable. Teaching is something that I have been around my whole life being in a family where the majority of my families are in educaiton in someway. I am really excitied to join them in the education field and learn and grow as a teacher because of them. Overall, this class has just reminded me why I want to teach and I am really glad that happened.

Rachel Vaghts chapel

The other day I went to chapel and I heard Rachel Vaghts speak. I went on the spring break mission trip with her and became good friends with her so I was excited to hear her speak. She is an excellent public speaker. She relates to the crowd really well, her talk was just the right length, she is funny and she had a really good message. Those are four qualities that teachers need to have when teaching in order to get through to their students. In her message she was speaking mainly to the seniors, but it really struck me too. She spoke about how once she got back from our mission trip she just wanted to go back right away, she also spoke of how when she was done with college that she just wanted to stay and not go out in the real world. This was actually something that I was thinking about. I have been having so much fun in school that I was beginning to think I just wanted to stay in school forever, but then Rachel got to the end of her talk. In the end, she talked about how we need to leave and we cannot stay in school forever, what we need to do is go out into the world and do our mission in life. My mission in life is to teach and I am excited to go out and do it.

Speaker at the Middle school

When we went to the middle school it was very interesting to see what the lady had to say. I was really amazed with what alcohol can do to kids brains when they are not fully developed. It can really cause them to lose intelligence and it also causes them to have a much higher risk of becoming an alcoholic. As for her speaking style I found it to be very interesting. She was really hyper and almost a little crazy with the way she talked to her computer. She did however bring a strong message to the table in a way that didn't boar you to death. She kept you laughing and just wondering what she was going to do next. I really enjoyed her as a speaker, as well as her message.