Hello All,
My name is Christy Brian. I'm a twenty-something year old kid, going to school and wandering my way into adulthood at Utah State University. I love being a student. I love being an Aggie.
I am double majoring in Psychology Teaching and School Health.
In my spare time I enjoy playing and coaching soccer, learning the guitar, and hanging out with the residents at Williamsburg Retirement home.
I can't wait to be a teacher. I can't remember a time when I didn't know that's what I wanted to do with my life. I am passionate about learning and growing and becoming. I like Psychology and Health because of their focus on human behavior. I love to learn content that will immediately improve my life as I understand and apply it. The study of the mind and body is applicable to everyone at such an intimate, individual level--that's exciting to me, and I think that is exciting for students as well. Maybe I'm a dreamer--but someday I would really like to teach students who are excited about what we are learning together.
Literacy in the fields of Psychology and Health means being able to take the information and apply it to your immediate experience. It is not merely understanding but doing. What good is information is we don't do anything with it? Can we really call ourselves literate? T.S. Eliot once asked, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" There is a LOT to be learned out there and literate students know how to be selective and find choice bits of information that they can really use to better themselves and their lives.
Someday, as an educator I hope to play a small part in bettering the lives of individuals.
