Kelly+McGoldrick 


 * ECI 430: Response to Tchuchi and Mitchell**

//After reading Tchuchi and Michell's article I reflected on how I imagine my first day of class to be. I imagine I would have spent a few weeks decorating my classroom and organizing it the way I think will work best for my procedures, knowing quite well that my class will move around a lot once I get a hang of my students and their needs. I imagine I will loose sleep over what I wear and that I will be as nervous as my students. When my students walk into my classroom I want to be standing at the front of the room greeting them so that they do not feel as if I am invading their personal space. I will have a small message on the overhead or board that says something along the lines of, Hello (insert class name here) and welcome to our classroom! My name is Miss McGoldrick and I look forward to our year together. Please take a seat where you find your name card, a piece of paper and a writing utensil". I see my students shyly flowing in and finding their seats while talking amongst themselves until the bell rings. Once the bell rings I will take a few minutes introducing myself before we start our ice breaker. Our ice breaker will be the students putting their name, age and hometown on their piece of paper and their own answer to the question "What is one machine or object you wish you knew how it operated?" Students will get a few minutes to write their answer before turning to their neighbor and sharing. They will then be given a second sheet of paper where they brainstorm how they think their machines work. After this I will ask for a few groups to share their idea.//

//I will then tell the class how excited I am to get to know them. I will hand them another sheet of paper and ask them to write an introduction letter telling me about themselves, their families, their heritage, their hobbies and their likes and dislikes. Their letters will be collected and their syllabi will be handed to them. We will briefly go over the syllabi and their homework will be to have their parents read over and sign their syllabi, anyone who brings back a signed syllabi the next day gets a homework pass good for the entire quarter. I will then hopefully get to show them a movie clip or something fun to get them excited about coming back. I know I cannot plan this day perfectly but it is my goal to introduce myself, have my students introduce themselves to at least one person, have my students writing and reading material and to have my students excited to return to my classroom.//


 * ECI 445: Writing Myself into Being**

//I have been told multiple things about using online social media and technology in my classroom as a new teacher. Some have told me make sure my profile is private and to not accept friend requests from students while others have told me to completely delete my online identity. I believe that social media is now a classroom aid so not using it personally will only hurt my students. Twitter can help students ask about homework late at night, Facebook can help students create class pages where they can interact and ask questions and youtube can give clips as visual aids to classroom lessons.I believe that deleting an online identity sends the message that social media is unnecessary and useless and it is not. Our students need to know how to properly use technology so that they have their own educated social media personality.//

http://www.dipity.com/kamcgold/
 * Time Line URL**

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 * Ideal Classroom Set Up**

ECI 430: Personal Teaching Philosophy I want to become a teacher because I enjoy helping others, especially when they do not realize I am doing so. I have peers who do not realize how much their peers help them out and I do not want to create students like these, I want to create compassionate, observant and thankful students. I want to become a teacher because I want students to be observant of history, thankful for what others achieved prior to their birth, and compassionate for other people in their world. Education is a field one enters into knowing they will not be paid much but that they will gain memories and relationships that will form them into better people.

//I want to become a teacher to learn from the generations that have come after me while educating them about the generations that came before them. I believe that students should be taught history, or grammar for that matter; in a way that they can relate to and in today’s society that way is with technology. I want my students to know their technological devices can do more good for them than help them text their friends. I believe that technology and history/ language arts should be codependent of each other through out middle grades education. Finally, I believe that every student should learn something about himself or herself through learning about history and novels.//


 * //ECI 430: My Name//**

//I was named Kelly Anne by my father. My mom wanted to name her first daughter after two of her sisters and had she still wanted that when she married my father I would have been named Mary Margaret. Kelly means: "warrior, fighter, and bright-headed" and it comes from Ireland. McGoldrick means "son of the fierce and proud" so my name makes me seem a lot more intimidating than I am, but I will say I am quite fierce and proud of where I come from and those I call family. My father's grandparents were from Ireland and I am named for my grandmother, Ann although my mom did not double check how she spelled her name when she filled out my birth certificate. This created the inside joke of "when are you going to drop that stupid 'E' from her name?" I am called Kel and Kelly Anne by my loved ones and usually when a family member calls me by Kelly, I am in trouble. I am honored to be named for my Grandma, since she has since past away and I like that I have a very Irish name. We have traced our last name back to County Cork, where my las name originated. I am bound to my heritage by my name and am so happy I am not Mary Margaret McGoldrick, although my mom swears she would have called me Maggie.//



Kelly means warrior, fighter and bright McGoldrick means fierce and proud Anne if my grandmother, my name bought delight Kelly Anne has a distinct Irish sound.

I am proud of my name given by my parents I am proud the way my name is traced back May you live to be 100 years old, with an extra to repent.


 * Placement: Davis Drive Middle School, 8th Grade Social Studies**


 * Twitter name: @kamcgold**

//I plan on using The Grapes of Wrath while I teach about the Great depression, tying in how the stock market worked at the time and FDR's new deals (especially those that happened in North Carolina). I will use some web 2.0 tools, cornell notes and real world applications. My theme is cause and effect and how societies create problems that they have to fix themselves.//
 * Thematic Unit Plan:** **Cause and Effect of the Boom and Bust**


 * Poem for November 7th Class**

//When the world becomes to much// //When classes, people and work become to much// //I drive to Umstead and escape to the trees// //I go to where the world gets away from me//

//I hear the water rushing and the tree leaves brushing// //I see the birds and squirrels chasing// //I smell the earth in its purest form// //I go back to where the water is born//

//I feel the rock I sit on and its firmness underneath me// //I touch the earth that brings me back to reality// //I breath in the air and listen to nature's song// //I bring myself back up to face the real world// //My absence from this place is never very long.//