teacher by day - chef by night
Every day I am proud to call myself a Teacher Today we invited more than a dozen local Community Leaders into our school for a Leadership Lunch. At the lunch, some of our Student Leaders had a chance to talk to these adults about what …
I love my classroom! Yeah, of course there are things that I would change about it, but it is such a fun place to spend my day! I wanted to take a break from food for a moment to share some views from my room… …
I love to teach, I love to cook, I love to read. So here I present to you all of those things that I love, wrapped up in one neat little Pizza (which happens to also be the favorite of the man that I love!).
For the past few years my school’s (amazing) Librarian & dear friend has arranged Summer Reading Groups… at the end of the school year she has some of our 5th Grade Students volunteer to be “Reader Leaders”. Each one of those kids then choose a book they would like to read. Other students then choose a book from the list the student leaders created. Teachers also became Adult Leaders for these books. All Summer our kids and teachers (hopefully) read all sorts of great books. Then we Fast Forward to the start of the school year when our students gathered to lead our book discussions…
I love to get book recommendations from my students. I ended up with Killer Pizza being my official Summer Reading book (partially because no other teachers took it). A book about Pizza is up my alley, BUT the Killing & Monster part was a little scary for me (I’m such a baby). This was a great book and our kids loved it.
. I have said it before, and I will say it again… my students rock!! I started the year with a post about my job and how much I love what I do – so as the 2011-2012 school year draws to a close, I …
I Love My Job Yes, ok – there are times every day when I am frustrated and want to cry or scream but at the end of the day when I stop and think about what happened that day, it is usually a positive that …
I am so glad to be back in the classroom and see all of the excitement that my students have as we start this new school year. I’m completely re-energized as we start and see so much new potential with the year and the direction things are going in my building!
Starting this year we are one of less than 600 or something schools who are doing the “Leader in Me” program based on Steven Covey’ “7 Principles of Highly Effective People” but this is based on taking that approach (which I highly recommend to anyone to try, so amazing) with students. They seem to be really enjoying it & I’m loving it too!!
My students also inspire me to be the best that I am and always keep me on my toes. They make me proud and happy and all of that warm-fuzzy stuff!! I was telling them about me (did you know – teachers are real people too and we don’t sleep in our classroom!!?) and they were “ooh-ing” and “ahh-ing” over a few pictures that I showed them from my Teacher by Day – Chef by Night blog.
It made me feel really proud of what I have done here. I also loved talking about my wonderful dogs, my love for my family (& adopted family/siblings), enjoyment of cooking/photography, theatre, skiing and all of that fun stuff. People always say to find what you love and then hopefully find someone to pay you to do it. That is what I feel with in my job – I love teaching and hope to always keep this energy
