Introduction/First Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Adrianne Ashley and I am currently a Senior well actually a super senior but who's counting. :) I'm from a very small town in Mississippi known as Raleigh. I have a dog that lives with me and his name is Cooper and he is my life and I'm not sure what I would do without him. I enjoy shopping with my mom but only when she buys me stuff. ;) As you all know I am in Elementary Education with endorsements in Math and Science. The reason I chose this as my major is because when I was a little girl I always dreamed of becoming a teacher and everyday after school I would go into my playroom and play for hours like I was a teacher. I have to say that I believe I was a very good teacher back then and I plan on being an even better teacher in real life.

Last semester I was in 1st grade and I did enjoy it but I don't believe that is where I should be. I would like to have a higher grade, just not so sure how high of a grade I want to go. I am so excited to start teaching Math because that is my favorite subject and I enjoy learning new things and new techniques on learning math. On the other hand, I am most definitely not excited about teaching English because that is my worst subject and nothing about english inspires me.

As I was reading the syllabus one things that stood out for me was that during this course we were going to be planning instruction by using a variety of literacy practices and getting closer with our endorsement areas and I am really looking forward to learning all new things. I believe that this course is going to be about oral literacy with doing a lot of oral work during the classroom and learning ways to orally communicate with our students and learn fun and challenging tasks. So I am looking forward to learning new ways to communicate with students in a fun way like role playing. I have had to do blogs in two other classes that I have taken at USM so it seems that I should have the hang out it now and should start liking doing them but I honestly am not one who enjoys writing. However, I am looking forward to having an electronic pen pal and I feel that it is going to be very interesting to learn about how they are being taught. I am looking forward to a wonderful and experimental semester.