First Reflection

I decided to become a teacher during my senior year in high school.  I had, for the past few years, been helping at an after school program at a local elementary school called little buddies.  This program gave me time and experience working with kids in a setting where I was a role model to them.  I remember one kid, went by the name of Dillon.  He had a rough home life and was always in trouble at school.  I was able to be a positive influence in his life and he started to change.  This had a profound impact on me as it is one of the reasons I want to be a teacher, to be a positive male role model to some of these kids who don't have one at home.  After I seriously decided that teaching was going to be my career choice, I started teaching piano lessons.  I started this as part of my senior project and turned it into a business where I was teaching about ten kids a week.  This gave me real experience teaching kids and working with them to improve their piano playing.  What I found through this experience was that I enjoyed teaching the kids.  When I get out of school I plan on teaching the upper grades of elementary school or Middle school humanities.  What I hope to learn in this class is how to effectively implement technology in a classroom setting.  I have some experience with technology, meaning I know my way around a computer, but in the implementation in a classroom is something I have never really though too much about.