My Education Journey Thus Far

As an education major, there has been a lot going on. From required observation hours to writing assessments and adaptations, sometimes it is a strange balance between being a student and an almost-teacher. I've written lesson plans, rewritten those same plans, written multiple exams and essay questions and have learned so much. It is strange [...]

Pre-Trip Reflection

During the fall semester, I learned about the opportunity to participate in two different study abroad trips, one to Japan and on to Zambia. Two places I had never been to nor knew much about either country past what I learned in my history classes. Initially, I intended on going to Zambia because I had [...]

Edu-What?

This is going to be the first post in my education series! As I get closer to actually student teaching and getting ready for the real world, I wanted to start off by talking about where I am with my degree currently and the next steps that I am going to take, or the steps [...]

AFLV Central 2019 Recap

Last year I attended AFLV Central for the first time, and during the closing session, I asked my advisor what it would take for me to come back next year. So, for an entire year, I have been looking forward to this conference. For this post, I am really just going to stick with a few [...]

Informal vs. Formal…What’s the Difference?

This is something that I have been thinking about a lot lately as I work through Rho Gamma applications is the assumptions about going through recruitment formally vs. informally and what the difference between the two of them are. Formal and informal recruitment might be known as different things like at Baldwin Wallace we call [...]

Toto…This Isn’t New Jersey Anymore

Well, I am officially back in Ohio and planning on staying here for a while. The start of the semester has actually been an interesting one. At first, everything was great. I started my semester having a really great class schedule and everything was getting on its way with those classes and the increasing number [...]

2019 Here We Come

I have been spending a great deal of time thinking about my resolutions and goals for 2019. I have had a New Years Resolution probably since I was 10 years old. But this year that I want to do something a little differently. Yes, I have a Resolution but I have goals as well. I [...]

Goals, Goals and More Goals: Spring 2019

Blogmas Day 7 This post is going to be broken into two posts for today and tomorrow. In this post, I plan on talking about my academic goals for my Spring 2019...which is one year before I graduate, and that's a really scary thought.  Every year I have grander and grander plans for myself every [...]

Fall 2018 In Review: What Worked?

Blogmas Day 3 So much happened during my Fall semester and there was actually a lot that really went well for me...and a decent amount that was not so great but that is fine and I'll talk about that later. Today I want to focus on the good in this post since that is another [...]

What the Heck is Body Confidence

Body confidence is a tricky thing. Anyone can have issues with confidence, doesn't matter how much fat is on your body. Girls who look are tall, blonde and skinny have body confidence issues, girls with thicker thighs and a larger stomach have body confidence issues. But there are girls who don't have these issues. Personally, [...]