Welcome to Our Classroom
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome parents and students to our classroom. You may be viewing this information as a newsletter, or perhaps a blog. If you wish to become an interactive participant in our discussion on education please know that this blog is open to all parents and students who wish to responsibly contribute. Your comments will be posted publically online, and you'll find that through an open, honest, and respectful discussion of invested minds higher levels of success and understanding can be achieved.
What I hope to do is give you a little information about myself professionally that can help you better understand the approach to education that I have in my classroom, and appreciate how I arrive at some of the activities that we work on in school. First and foremost I would like to let you know that I am passionate about teaching. From an early age I have worked with children formally and informally within the classroom, camps, and edcuational programs. After graduating from the University of Connecticut I received my teaching certification and Master's degree in Instructional Technology from Western Connecticut State University. Presently I am a candidate in Western Connecticut's doctoral program for Instructional Leadership.
After fifteen years as a classroom teacher I have enthusiastically and humbly discovered that I am a lifelong learner. Too often we view the road of our education as a finite, linear path that we seek to complete, when in reality the truth is that it should continue until we are no longer able to question things around us.
"The only true wisdom is in knowing
you know nothing. "
-Socrates
Albeit a rough translation, Socrates' philosophy on learning is one I espouse. Finding a fact or an answer leads only to dead ends, but discovering another question leads to countless places....
