Adventures of Mrs. Sam-I-Am

Keep Moving Foward...     As a non-traditional student I face different challenges than an 18–20-year-old does in the first place. Being an adult means you have a different life with different responsibilities. In my life specifically I have a fully disabled husband, three kids (14, 12, & 9), as well as work fulltime. All of this means that when it comes to school and classes, I have to squeeze it in whenever I can, even if that means instead of sleep or other life things. The challenges I face trying to go back to school is that I am the sole adult in my world. When anyone needs a ride anywhere, it's me. When someone has a doctor's appointment, or everyone needs a ride at the same time, or the world is burning down, it's all me.      My advice for future teachers would be to just do it. I know that sounds crazy, but I was 33 when I went back to school.  Was that too late? No! It doesn't matter what or when you decide to go to school just do it. My lif...

Build-A-Classroom-Family What makes a great teacher? There are some set decided upon characteristics that “make”  for a great teacher, things like enthusiasm, creativity, humor, resilience, and other traits like these. While I feel like these things make for a good teacher there are more as well. A teacher needs to be loving, be stern, have common sense, and be flexible. Life in a school can be wonderful but also wild.     When it comes to my personal strengths, I believe that my creativity, compassion, and common  sense are vital in a classroom environment. I feel that I can be such an asset in any school with the  way I think outside of the box and can come up with different solutions to the same problems we  face over and over again. I can mix things up and create new adventures for the kids, new ways to  look at the learning, and hopefully break through some barriers that hold back some of our more  challenging students.   ...

Unity in Diversity...      What is Global Education and why do we need it? When looking at the whole of the earth and its history there are many different lessons that we can learn from it all. The benefits of the culture you can learn from, the community you can build, and the compassion that can be gained from learning about other cultures and their people can help change the world.       In the classroom you can easily add in global lessons by teaching about other countries, other holidays, other games, languages, types of arts. There are so many ways. I personally like to celebrate and learn about other holidays, learn about the traditions, crafts, and foods. I also love to learn about the history from other countries, the good and the bad. You can learn so much from the failures and successes of others as to not repeat the same mistakes.      I hope in my future classroom that i can teach students to be well-rounded childr...