Introduction

My name is Whitney Ward.  I am currently engaged and planning my wedding for March 22, 2014.  I am excited to be a step parent to two beautiful babies that I currently help raise.  Children are a joy for me to have around.  They know how to make me smile when I am upset and can turn any mood into a positive one.  I look forward to spending most of my time teaching them.  I am now a junior and have started my Introduction Block in the Elementary Education program.  I will receive my endorsements in both mathematics and social studies when I graduate.  I am hoping to have all of my classes finished by May of 2015.  I love mathematics; I find number to be very interesting.  In addition, I like mathematics because there is always a reason why a certain answer is correct; there are no “that’s just the way it is” answers in mathematics.  On the other hand, social studies is one of my least favorite subjects.  I was previously an accounting major which required me to take sociology and economics.  Both of those classes count towards a social studies endorsement.  If I take one more social studies based class, I will be able to receive a social studies endorsement as well.  Despite my lack of interest in social studies, I still look forward to getting both the social studies and mathematics endorsements.  These endorsements will better qualify me as a teacher.  I am not a very technology savvy person.  I know just the basics I need to complete my class assignments.  However, I do believe that technology is important to use in a classroom.  Our world revolves around technology, and children need to be know how to use the technology themselves.  Although technology is important to a classroom, technology should not be the only way teachers teach.  Children need to be exposed to a variety of ways (hands-on activities, board example, one-on-on, etc.) to learn because not everyone learns the same way.