Thing #3 As explored by me...

I can't wait to use a blog for the rest of my teaching career. I plan to keep using my original blog to keep myself organized with classes I have to take in order to become a teacher, and I will probably start a new one for my class to access that may cover what went on in class that day or it may helpful hints and such for the benefit of my students. Hopefully I can use the first blog to keep track of what does and does not work my first couple years of teaching. If I do that I can revise or remove things that were not effective, and insert more ideas and methods that work well!

Thing #2 As explored by me...

As luck would have it, I had a time and a half trying to create an avatar for my blog, and getting it posted correctly. Setting up the blog was extremely simple, since I already have a blog here on blogspot. Feel free to read it any time for my quirky inputs about life and what is going on in my world.

The name was difficult to come up with at first, because I couldn't think of anything original and generic. I finally settled on Musings from the Brier: The 23 Things as explored by Lea Avrit. This represented how I view all of my posts as musings, because I don't have everything figured out but I give you all the information I have swirling around in my head at the time. The Brier part of the section is just from where they will probably all be posted. Hope you like it!

Oh, by the way, the avatar shows who I am and kind of what I look like now. :)

Thing #1 As explored by me....

Life long learning is indeed a learned habit. According to the video assigned for this portion of the project there are seven and a half steps to becoming a life long learner.

1. Have a goal.
2. Accept responsibility for your own learning.
3. View problems as challenges.
4. Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner.
5. Create your own learning toolbox.
6. Use technology to your advantage.
7. Teach/mentor others.

7.5. Play!

Most of these steps to becoming a life long learner come naturally to me. I have to have a goal in anything I do in order for it actually to have a chance at getting anything done. I also love to teach/mentor others. I have been tutoring math students in all grades now for just over a year and love it!

There are others that are more difficult to master. These include viewing problems as challenges. I am working on this one, but it is indeed still a work in progress. Also, I don't always have confidence in myself as I should, but I am also striving to have more confidence in myself.

Well, here is to the start of a new adventure that will hopefully help me fix the issues I have difficulty with in the seven and a half steps!

P.S. I have mastered the play! :)