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All About Me I bring with me on my journey to the teaching profession many beliefs and values. I am a strong and powerful woman ready to take my place in the world. I hold my morals close to me. It is rock that keeps me grounded as well as helps me through the days. Giving my weakness and my love to my Lord as he has brought me to where I am today. I am caring, looking out for those who need it, left lost in the pages of day to work. Honesty is on the top of my list. I am raw, what you see is what you get. My inner child shows through I am able to connect with them while being able to gain their respect, and in turn I can return it back. My responsibility to my students is to share fun and creative learning with them in a collaborative environment. It can’t all be a give process; nothing would get accomplished in that fashion. The parents need to be apart of their students lives and their learning, my classroom door will always be open one can never have too many parent helpers. Involving them in my classroom makes the students and the parents feel important. To me that is the best part making someone feel needed. I love working with parent volunteers now in the classroom just as another helper, but when I am the teacher it will feel so nice knowing they are there to help me and their child. I feel that learning about their community is just as important as learning about math equations. As a child my dad was very involved in city affairs and city council, which brought me into the mix as well. It helped to open many new doors and fun learning opportunities for me by being exposed to this as a young child. If I bring that element of community into my classroom I am hoping to invoke some of those same learning opportunities and questions that I once had. It is so great to make real life connection and it makes learning easier in a way for the students; not to mention so much more fun for them. Why just read and learn about salmon and the river ecosystems… go there and experience it. Going and doing also helps those Kinesthetic  learns as well. I was and still am a kinesthetic learner and that is one of the most memorable unit we did! I consider myself to be a very kind and selfless person. I will share those qualities with my students as well as give them the gift of asking questions. That is the one thing I always even up to college I felt scared to ask question in class. I want to give my students the ability to feel safe and confident to ask question no matter what it may be. I also want to help my students to be able to leave my class everyday feeling they did their best and that they are proud of what they did that day. That truly is all I could ask for from my students. Anything beyond that is great but as long as my students tried their hardest and put their all into the day I will be the happiest teacher. I would like to bring a celebration factor into my class. I love to bake and I love to share what I bake with others. I know we aren’t typically supposed to do birthdays and celebrations, but I would do a celebration each month for all the students who had/have a birthday that month and bring in cupcakes being approved first. Everyone needs to feel loved this could help with that. But to me that would be so much fun for everyone plus we could turn it into a great math lesson. The students could even make everything in class as our math lesson measuring and time it would be so great and fun! It would allow me to show my students and staff who I really am. Along with baking I love to craft and scrapbook. From the time you look at my bulletin boards and enter my classroom you will see my crafting skills put to work. I will have hopefully made every name tag and decoration in my classroom. I will have asked the parents at the beginning of the year if I can photograph their child because I am that crazy woman with the camera. Ask any child I have baby sat, the camera is attached to me, as it will be in my classroom. I will be documenting our adventures as we travel through the year. I want to teach my students how to create their own memory book so they too can keep with them the memories of the year of what we have done and accomplished. I think that at times I will be learning and enjoying more than my students. I will have to learn how to share my excitement and transfer it to my students so they too will experience it as I do. Along with my girly side I will be able to relate to the boys in my class as well. I like most of the other Smith’s in my family love football. Being an only child my dad rubbed off on me as well. On any given Saturday I will either be up in Eugene, listening to my uncle Jerry announcing the game or sitting so close to the TV no one else can see. Let me rephrase that I love Oregon Duck football. As long as I can remember I have always been a fan. I feel that it really has helped me to be more open and outgoing in life. I will bring that knowledge into my classroom to help open up some of my students, also to show them their teacher is cool. That really is what I want, I want my students to like and respect me. If I can’t accomplish that I won’t be able to teach and get my messages across.