Caitlin's Blog

A great week of school??!!

Howdy yall.

Man this was the slowest week of my entire life. It seemed to drag on and on and onnnnn!!! MY GOODNESS. I think some of it had to do with the fact that I was sick this week, which stunk! But the 3 days i was here seemed to be allright. We talked about "barriers to education"; like A.D.D and behavior problems. We are going to be working on discussion questions to help us to learn more about this. I think that this packet will be very helpful because alot of times as teachers and even as students, you run across kids that are "different". When you dont know what could be wrong with them, it is very easy for you to judge them. With this packet, you can still judge but only in a good way. The type of way that can help both you and that student learn more about each other.

Well since I was sick most of this week I dont know to much about this week.

But Ill be back with new and exciting info next week

Leave me some love

-Caitlin

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Howdy yall...
I want to say thank all of yall for those great comments. It is very nice to read all of that. Alot of people are leaving the teaching profession beacuse there is no support from other people, so since i am only a teenager wanting to become a teacher all this support is an amazing and wonderful feeling. (it makes me feel so special)

Yesssss but anywho, as i was saying, we went to the confrence in Duluth on Tuesday and got introduced to alot of great schools and people. When you have such a passion for teaching and kids, its almost like the more the better!

One of the comments that I was asked was about if i had/have a great teacher who brought alot of humor into our classroom and yes i do. Her name is Mrs. P and she has the most amazing teacher. She is always laughing and smiling which makes us want to come to class and be apart of what we are learning. She takes an interest in what is going on in our lives and she is very easy to talk to. She teaches algebra 2 which is a very hard class, so beacuse she cares about us as people and not just kids in her class it is a great class to come to. I hope to be that kind of teacher who when asked about, my students smile and say they love me!!

Hummm let me see what else,...my humor. I must say that it comes pretty natural. I love to laugh and to make people laugh so when I write I say how i feel. It is so much easier to laugh and have fun with what you do than to be all stuck up. This is a learning experiance for me so I want to make it as best as I can.

Weelllpppp i think that im going to run.
Dont forget...i love dem comments!!!

ILL BE BACK!

-Caitlin

Feeling like a real teacher!!

Hay there eveyone.

Well first i want to say that I am going to be working on this whole
"professional looking" type thing. If you happen to notice something done wrong please tell me, because i want to correct that!...Thank You!!

Anywho, this past Tuesday we went to a confrence for future teachers. The teacher of the year for Georgia in 2004 was a guest speaker which was very interesting, but unfortunitly for most of her speach i couldnt hear what she was saying. Im sure it was good though??!! It was nice being able to visit some good teaching colleges that had booths set up for us. Augusta state was there and i have heard very good things about that school, so i might have to be looking into that school.

Ahhhh i have just ran out of time, so im going to finish this up at home, so dont worry ILL BE BACK!! :) ((((i also have a GREAT since of humor)))))

-Caitlin

welcome to.....

hay there yall. my name is caitlin and i am a junior at a high school in Georgia. this is my first year in the intro to teaching class,and also my first year to this school so all of this is very new to me.i am planning on becoming a 4-5 grade teacher and also getting my special education degree from georgia southern. i have wanted to be a teacher most of my life so when i found out about this class i was very excited.i play lacrosse and am very active with my church. i was involved in interact club and do alot of work with my aunt who is a special ed teacher with students with mild disorders.

we just recently finish a section on test taking tips, and i found that very helpful. we have also done a section called "the pot". it talked to us about who we are and how we become what we are based on the people and things around us, like the situations we are in make the pot of our life. it showed us alot about the way that people are  and how little different things effect the way that they are also. the activity helped us to become more understanding of differences.

i am very excited about next semester because we are going to be able to work with students at the elementary school. also our senior year we will be able to be a paid apprentace, which is very cool. i think that most of the people in my class are very excited and really looking forward to it.

well i think that describes me and this class pretty well so far, but i would love to get some feedback!!

thanks abunch'

caitlin