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.
GREAT quotes from T.S. Eliot...especially a great motto to use as an educator.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who's an English teacher, and she did these projects with people in a retirement home where the students interviewed retirees and wrote their life histories.
Because you are so passionate about retirement homes, it might be neat for you to take your students there and do some type of health project related to health across the life span. I think it might also be powerful for students to see how the daily decisions they make in relation to their health will be written on their bodies by the time they hit retirement age themselves.
Just thinking aloud here. :) Thanks for a great first posting and I look forward to reading more throughout the semester.
Christy, It was fun to get to know more about you. I think it is so cool that you have always wanted to be a teacher, I am the same way. I love the reasons behind you choosing Psychology and Health. I bet your students will be excited about learning because of your excitement for it. I had a teacher who was so excited every time we came to class and we got to discuss american history. I loved that class because the teacher was so into it and loved the class. I believe this is how your students will see you. Lastly, I loved when you said "It is not merely understanding but doing" it's a great definition of literacy.
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