Thing #1

As a mother of three and high school teacher, I am blessed with ample opportunities for learning as I go through my routine. I learn from my children and students daily. I look forward to this blog as a way of organizing my thoughts and processing the many observations and feelings I experience. Too often, we can get caught up and not take the time to meditate upon and digest our experiences and to examine them from a professional frame of mind. My hope is that this blog will be a successful part of my effort to become a more reflective practitioner of the profession of education. Having just watched an online video about the seven and one half habits of lifelong learners, I feel challenged to take a more active role in pursuing the ideal of being a lifelong learner. Of the habits listed, I feel most confident in my confidence... so to speak. I have always enjoyed learning and have been and continue to be a successful student. I am proud to be a part of a math department that has been praised by administration for its effective collaboration. We form a tight knit group that eats lunch together daily and continuously communicates. This has been a great boon to me in my young teaching career. As a matter of fact, two other teachers are assisting me this week in installing a projector for my computer in my classroom. This is good because I feel the weakest of my seven habits is technology. Thank goodness for helpful people when it comes to leaning about things that can seem frustrating. Technology definitely falls under that category for me. Still, I am making progress. I just started my first blog. Wow!