Week One

All throughout my schooling up till my junior year in high school I never thought that I could or would have the passion to be a teacher. I was not very into school, I had bad grades, and honestly I was not interested in continuing my education beyond my high school years. It was in that eleventh grade year that I realized that I had a passion to coach.

My mentors in school had always been my coaches and my PE teachers. I looked up to them and they taught me so many values and life lessons  that I continue to uphold to this day. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to influence others as I had been influenced by those teachers/coaches. From that time on I have only excelled academically and overcome so many obstacles such as my learning disability. I decided that the best way to make an impact on adolescents was in teaching.

I believe that technology is a good thing to have within a class room. I have not had much experience with it in classes that I have been a part of, but I know that the world is changing and that teaching styles need to adapt to the era that the students are living in.

I think that technology brings a positive influence into a classroom setting if it is used correctly. However, because I have grown up with having to cope with a learning disability, so I also know that technology might become an obstacle for kids who might not excel within that environment. For example, because of my learning disability, it made my typing class ten times harder than it was for everyone else.