My name is Kelli and I live in Escondido, CA. When I am not doing school work or working, I love to work out, spend time with my boyfriend, friends and family, and am usually listening to country music.
Here is a picture of my boyfriend and I at the UF football game. Go Gators!
I have worked in the finance industry for the last 11 years so transitioning to teaching is going to be both nerve-wracking and exciting. I am, however, definitely looking forward to the change. I also own my own Wedding Coordination and Floral company. One of the best parts about going into teaching is the time off in the summers and on weekends will still allow me to enjoy the wedding industry. I am so fortunate to have found 2 careers that make me excited to work each day.
I think I can meet the needs of the diverse learners in my class by bringing in my creativity, and attention to detail. I know that much of the success I will have in the classroom will be due to the hard work I put in preparing the lessons to make sure that I am meeting the needs of all my students. I strive to be innovative and know that I will challenge myself to find creative and fun ways to teach the curriculum.
I would definitely describe myself as a leader. I learned this when I was in a business fraternity in college. My pledge class was a mixture of 26 different personalities, but I was always able to find a way to be motivating and encouraging and found myself contributing helpful ideas towards our goals. I plan to use what I have learned through my experiences as a student, as a leader, and as a business woman in my classroom.
When taking the Teaching and Learning styles survey the results showed me that I was balanced between being an Active and Reflective learner. I am definitely more of a sensing learner than an intuitive learner, a much more visual learner than a verbal learner. The results also showed that I am a moderate sequential learner over a global learner.
Since I am more of a sensing learner and enjoy learning the facts, I will need to work on allowing students to be more intuitive learners because that is the way common core is expecting them to be. This is one area I might be challenged with when it comes to teaching and hope to find ways to accomplish this as I have time in the classroom. Being a visual learner myself will be good for my students because in my classes I have learned that graphic organizers and visuals can definitely support the learning, especially for ELL students. I think being more of a sequential learner will help me keep the information I am teaching in a logical order for students to learn.
That's all for me for week one. Hope you enjoyed learning a little about me. :]
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