Saturday, January 24, 2009
Blog #1: Introduction
My name is Gustavo, but most of my friends call me Goose. I work as a teacher’s assistant at Rosemont Elementary School in Echo Park. I have worked as a teacher’s assistant for about a year and a half. I have worked with first, third, fourth, and fifth grade students. I enjoy working with kids in the classroom, especially when it comes to helping them become better readers. During my spare time I spend as much time as I can with my girlfriend, play basketball, watch football, play video games (Madden), and watch movies. I am very into sports, especially basketball and football, and I also tend to watch ESPN a lot. My favorite teams are the Lakers, Eagles, Vikings, and Steelers. I am in my fourth year at CSUN and I am finally graduating in May! As a graduation present to ourselves, my girlfriend and I are planning to take a trip to Hawaii!
After I graduate, I plan on going straight into the credential program at CSUN. As an aspiring English teacher, I hope that I can make a difference in the lives of my students. I want to be a positive influence in their lives because there are students that live rough lives and I do not want to be a rough teacher making it worse. As a teacher, I want to teach my students how to write and how to critically think for themselves because I believe those are important tools to have at the university level.
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I am curious as to where the name "Goose" came from. That has to be a story in itself - or at least somewhat interesting!
ReplyDeleteWhat grades are you thinking of doing? It seems that you like working with younger students based on your teacher's assistant experience so far. Once you are in the credential program, you will observe and teach in different grades and environments. This will provide you with the opportunity to see and get a feel for a range of things that you might or might not be interested in. I am not sure what kind of expectations you have going into the program, but I can tell you one thing - they will change. What I mean by this is that you might think that something will happen in a certain way in a classroom because, after all, you were a student at one time in the secondary setting, but looking at it from the other side is quite different.