updated video script

Curiosity. My need for knowledge. My need to explore. My need to learn. Where did it come from? Looking back, I would say that my oldest friend taught me how to explore my curiosities. George was by my side since I could remember. His stories inspired me to follow my heart and curiosities. I always knew that I would dedicate my life to service to others. But how could I combine my passion for service and my need to explore curiosities? I realized my purpose was to inspire others to follow their curiosities. During my last two years of college, I knew I had to become a teacher and to spread my love of learning and exploring.

This year, I spent my time training to be a teacher. I started the year filled with excitement, but also many questions. I was curious about many things. What was PACT? Would I make it through this year? Can I do it? Will I be a good teacher? Will my students like me? How can I possibly feel like a real teacher by the end of the year? What's an EL? Will I get a job? My curiousity seemed ovewhelming

All I could do was work hard, wait, and find out. Meanwhile, I experimented with sentence frames, creating equity in my classroom, creating cross-content lessons, SDAIE and ELD strategies, positive reinforcement, promoting multiculturalism, creating a social curriculum, having students reflect evaluate their own behavior, questioning to guide students' learning, using intrinsic rewards, and providing access to learning. All the while, I wanted to develop the whole child, promote lifelong learning, and citizenship. How was I supposed to incorporate all these ideas and teach academic content? Did I even have time to be curious?

There were times filled with struggles, doubt, and late nights, but hearing one child exclaim, "That was really fun!"after one of my lesson reinforced my decision to endure. I soon realized each one of my lessons became stronger and stronger, and I found many fun and exciting ways to engage all students. I wondered about different ways to make learning more fun and exciting for my students. Because of my curiousity and creativity, I came up with exciting lessons. My students wrote a letter filled with follow up questions to an author, held a election, created rock journals, explored rolling motion with rollers and marbles, and learned fractions with fraction kits. I engaged students' curiosities and I was on the road to becoming a teacher! I didn't want this feeling to go away.

Now that I have completed my year of student teaching, I look forward to engaging and teaching more students. I cannot wait to find out what curiosities I still have. With my own two hands, I know I can change the futures and lives of my student. With all that I have learned, I hope that I can inspire students to listen to their curiosities. Just like the Man in the Yellow Hat said, "The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it and let your curiousity lead you."

updated video script

Curiosity. My need for knowledge. My need to explore. My need to learn. Where did it come from? Looking back, I would say that my oldest friend taught me how to explore my curiosities. George was by my side since I could remember. His stories inspired me to follow my heart and curiosities. I always knew that I would dedicate my life to service to others. But how could I combine my passion for service and my need to explore curiosities? I realized my purpose was to inspire others to follow their curiosities. During my last two years of college, I knew I had to become a teacher and to spread my love of learning and exploring.

This year, I spent my time training to be a teacher. I started the year filled with excitement, but also many questions. I was curious about many things. What was PACT? Would I make it through this year? Can I do it? Will I be a good teacher? Will my students like me? How can I possibly feel like a real teacher by the end of the year? What's an EL? Will I get a job? My curiousity seemed ovewhelming

All I could do was work hard, wait, and find out. Meanwhile, I experimented with sentence frames, creating equity in my classroom, creating cross-content lessons, SDAIE and ELD strategies, positive reinforcement, promoting multiculturalism, creating a social curriculum, having students reflect evaluate their own behavior, questioning to guide students' learning, using intrinsic rewards, and providing access to learning. All the while, I wanted to develop the whole child, promote lifelong learning, and citizenship. How was I supposed to incorporate all these ideas and teach academic content? Did I even have time to be curious?

There were times filled with struggles, doubt, and late nights, but hearing one child exclaim, "That was really fun!"after one of my lesson reinforced my decision to endure. I soon realized each one of my lessons became stronger and stronger, and I found many fun and exciting ways to engage all students. I wondered about different ways to make learning more fun and exciting for my students. Because of my curiousity and creativity, I came up with exciting lessons. My students wrote a letter filled with follow up questions to an author, held a election, created rock journals, explored rolling motion with rollers and marbles, and learned fractions with fraction kits. I engaged students' curiosities and I was on the road to becoming a teacher!

Now that I have completed my year of student teaching, I look forward to engaging and teaching more students. I cannot wait to find out what curiosities I still have. With my own two hands, I know I can change the futures and lives of my student.

With all that I have learned, I hope that I can inspire students to listen to their curiosities. Just like the Man in the yellow hat said, "The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it and let your curiousity lead you."

my class in 2020

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Rough Draft of my Video

So, I've decided to go with a Curious George theme for my video. I hope to incorporate the different themes of teaching and following curiosities. I plan to use much of the music from Jack Johnson's Album Sing-a-longs and Lullabies for The Curious George Film. I plan to use personal photographs from throughout my life and many from when I was teaching this year.

So far, I have written some script that I plan to read for the video. I don't plan on speaking for the whole duration, as I want to incorporate music and lyrics to give additional depth to my video. Any feedback would be much appreciated! This is just my initial plan, and I hope make it much stronger with everyone's feedback! Thanks!

Curiosity. My need for knowledge. My need to explore. My need to learn. Where did it come from? Looking back, I would say that my oldest friend taught me how to explore my curiosities. George was by my side since I could remember. His stories inspired me to follow my heart and curiosities. I always knew that I would dedicate my life to service to others. Though many years as a student, I realized my purpose was to inspire others to follow their curiosities. During my last two years of college, I knew I had to become a teacher.

This year, I spent my time training to be a teacher. I started the year filled with excitement, but also many questions. Would I make it through this year? Can I do it? Will I be a good teacher? Will my students like me? How can I possibly feel like a real teacher by the end of the year? All I could do was work hard, wait, and find out. Meanwhile, I experimented with sentence frames, creating equity in my classroom, creating cross-content lessons, SDAIE and ELD strategies, positive reinforcement, promoting multiculturalism, creating a social curriculum, having students reflect evaluate their own behavior, questioning to guide students' learning, using intrinsic rewards, and providing access to learning. All the while, I wanted to develop the whole child, promote lifelong learning, and citizenship. How was I supposed to incorporate all these ideas and teach academic content?

There were times filled with struggles, doubt, and late nights, but hearing one child exclaim, "That was really fun!"after one of my lesson reinforced my decision to endure. I soon realized each one of my lessons became stronger and stronger, and I found many fun and exciting ways to engage all students. My students wrote a letter filled with follow up questions to an author, held a election, created rock journals, explored rolling motion with rollers and marbles, and learned fractions with fraction kits. I engaged students' curiosities and I was on the road to becoming a teacher!

Now that I have completed my year of student teaching, I look forward to engaging and teaching more students. I cannot wait to find out what curiosities I still have. With my own two hands, I know I can change the futures and lives of my student.

With all that I have learned, I hope that I can inspire students to listen to their curiosities and to let their curiosities lead them.

Classroom Event That Affected My Professional Growth

During my second placement, I was given an opportunity to test my skills as a professional educator. I showed up one day expecting to attend a professional development meeting with my CT. 15 minutes before the school day begun, I was told that I was to teach the class without a substitute in the classroom. Initially, I was terrified of the thought of being alone in my classroom. I had visions run through my head of things going horribly wrong. My CT reassured me and told me that she had total confidence in me. I soon realized that I had already been teaching the content areas that she would be gone for, and was nervous, but excited to see how it would go. Surprisingly, after I started teaching, I realized that there was nothing really different about this situation. I had gotten to the point in my teaching where I was completely "in the zone" during instruction, and did not even realize if my CT stepped out of the room. I realized that my students really did see me as their teacher and I was able to run the classroom as if it were my own. I believe that this was the turning point of my student teaching experience. I gained confidence and excitement because I finally felt like an effective teacher!