New Job

Hello! I'm realizing how hard it is to consistently keep up the blog when I now lead a very busy life! I have recently taken a job in West Valley, teaching at a Charter school. The School is in a very low-income area and provides me with very unique opportunities to work with kids in grades 7-9. In Utah that is apparently called "Junior High." I'm learning things like how important it is to LOVE what you do! It is a different mentality to be in when you are working full time. The leisure life of being a college kid is over. Onward and upward. Here's to doing hard things, practical application, and being a problem solver! 

Listened to an absolutely incredible motivational speaker the other day. Our entire school had an early dismissal so that teachers could go listen to an extraordinary teacher named Ron Clark. He has been awarded Teacher of the year and has his own school in Atlanta Georgia. He has done amazing things with kids in under-priveledged circumstances and he is renowned at raising test scores. 

His focus was on bringing passion into the classroom, and focusing on the positive. Something he emphasized a lot was the importance of staying positive and seeing the potential in each student. I was so inspired to become a better teacher through his words!!! I teach reading comprehension, and it is definitely a challenge, but I am learning so much each day from these kids, that I wouldn't rather be doing anything else :)