If you have been reading my blog, I just changed my major to School Health Education. Which means I can teach the things I love to learn about, Diseases, Injury and Violence, Addictive Substance Prevention, and most of all mentoring and caring for students at such a pivotal point in their lives.
I met with my advisor Cougar (yes that is his name) to go over some Program Requirements and plan out some classes and go over what is the best minor for me. Well let me tell you-- I love the program already!! So I'm taking a class this fall where I will be observing a classroom and seeing teaching methods and things like that for four weeks. This will allow me to get a feel for the profession and if it is something that I really want to do. I know that when I worked at the Boys and Girls Club for two years, I had to put up with some crap but those kids were in elementary school and barely started having attitudes and drama. Junior High and High School is a different story but I love drama-- well at least if it doesn't concern me.
So as far as my minor plans go, I wanted to minor in Environmental Science and then an advisor told me that wasn't an approved teaching minor.. So I started looking at other things. However, Cougar told me today that my plans were perfect and that I should go for them, at my own pace, and I would be totally marketable. So here is my plan that allows me to teach a variety of subjects, at two different levels, and in more than one location:
Major: School Health Education
Minors: Environmental Science, Geography Teaching
Endorsement: Integrated Biology
Look at all of that stuff!! It feels like so many doors have been opened for me. Honestly, I had no idea what I needed to do as a Biology Education major. It seemed like I would just be teaching Biology and people weren't really helpful with instructing me on what to do, plus I had that GPA requirement that sucked. Well I can tell you, I think nothing about Biology Education anymore because I will be teaching areas of Biology that I love, and instructing students on how to make their lives happier, and we threw in Geography because heck-- it sounded fun. So I'm three years away from graduating now 2014. Which is perfectly fine because I know that whatever happens to me in life, I can always fall back on the things I learned in college and the leadership skills I have gained.
I'm a red personality- so I usually take over as the authoritative role and the leader. I love interacting with students at different ages and getting to know them. The classroom can be crazy but I have complete faith that I will find ways to be creative and spark their imaginations and help them to be better people. Because with the Savior as the ultimate example and Master Teacher, I can do anything.
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