First Blog Post
Hello! This first image is a picture of Mirror Lake near Granby, it was one of the longest hikes I have done and it represents my love of the outdoors. I try to get out doors whenever I can because I spend a lot of time inside a classroom. I have not always wanted to be a teacher, I respected my teachers as a kid and I thought they did a lot of good work, but I never truly considered it until I was in college. I loved history so I studied it in my undergrad, but realized that it limited me to only a few jobs. After my freshman year at college, I met my fiancé and she was studying for elementary education. She introduced me to all the education majors and I discovered that I would probably love teaching. I joined City Year's program to find out if that was true. I want to focus heavily on lesson planning and creating effective engaging lessons. I never learned how they were made and I want to be competent in the field to go on my own...