Questions

This is my last course before graduating in August. In my program there is an "elective" option, and I was told that a lot of people choose to take this ADK course.. I talked to some others in my class and heard all great things about it, so I decided I would do the same.
I wanted to be a teacher honestly for as long as I could remember.. I use to play "school" all of the time and finally my parents made one of our closets into a mini classroom for me and I hid in there for hours "teaching" all of my students. I knew even before going into my freshman year at SUNY Potsdam what I wanted to be and how I was going to get there.
I love teaching an I will absolutley make a career out of teaching. I am currently teaching a grade that I never thought I would like, but I love it simply for the fact that I am teaching. My ultimate goal is to develope a variety of teaching strategies that will benefit all of my students and help them understand the importance of learning and growing. I want to be able expose my students to things that may never have been exposed to if they hadn't been in my classroom. I want to be able to show them that learning is fun and help them appreciate themselves as well as their education. To do this I need to find new resources and explore the world myself.
My goal for this course is to simply take in the whole experience. I want to be able to take the experience I had and bring it into my classroom next year. And also, I obviously want to have fun. I love the outdoors, I love the ADK's (hiking, swimming, fires, etc.), and I just want to take everything in while I am there. :)

Introduction

Hi! :) My name is Alison, I am a Universal Pre-K teacher in Auburn and will be finishing up my Master's at Cortland this Summer! (Yesssss.) I have mixed emotions about this class-- I have never done something like this before, but I am excited about doing something out of my "comfort zone." I do believe that as an educator you should try to do many things outside of your comfort zone, it really can make you think about what your students feel like sometimes! I am really looking forward to this trip, I have heard only great things about it and I think I am lucky to have the chance to take this type of course!