After completing my student teaching, I had a lot of questions. Can I really do this? Is this my calling? How am I going to survive on a income of sporadic student teaching jobs, and pay off the 1 million dollars that college cost me, even for a state school. So, I took the "easy way" out and accepted a corporate job. I was working 9-5 in sales, something steady and dependable and completely not for me. I only lasted 6 months before I realized how much I wanted to teach again.
That brings us up to today, I am currently a Pre-K teacher at Doodle Bugs! Children Center. I've been teaching there for a year and I can't even begin to tell you know much I enjoy it. The best part for me when it comes to teaching, is seeing how much of an impact you are truly making. Although I teach these 4 and 5 year old's the fundamentals and building blocks of life and education, it is truly astonishing to step back and really how much they are teaching me too.
This year my classroom was given 4 iPads to incorporate into curriculum using programs like ABC Mouse. Being able to watch my students pick up an iPad and instantly understand how to work it has blown my mind. But then I realized, of course they know how to use it, technology has been apart of their lives well, their entire life. So why is it so difficult for us to understand the basics of technology? Aren't we older? Wiser than a four or five year old? Maybe not, but that's when I knew that technology was something that I needed to further educate myself in. It isn't going to go anywhere, so why not try to master it and use it in every beneficial way possible?
I am extremely excited and ready to begin this program at Nazareth and I look forward to meeting all of you as well.
