Stefanie is a 2007 Graduate of St. Norbert College with a B.A. in English and Secodary Education Certification. She spent her semester of pre-service teaching at Pulaski Community Middle School and Little Chute High School and is currently searching for a job teaching high school English in the Midwest. While attending St. Norbert, Stefanie was very involved as a Resident Assistant and as the President of both National Residence Hall Honorary and Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society. She also had the honor of serving as the Student Commencement Speaker at her graduation ceremony. She looks forward to sharing her experiences with the job search and as a first-year teacher with her readers.

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Welcome to my blog!

07/14/07 at 04:28:24 pm

And so, dear reader, I entered the Blogosphere!

I’m excited to begin this new digital journey with all of you “dear readers” out there. Those of you who caught the Jane Eyre reference and haven’t read my bio can perhaps already guess that I am about to begin my first year as an English teacher!

After four fantastic and memorable years at St. Norbert, I graduated with a B.A. in English and Secondary Education in May 2007. Only a few weeks ago, I was hired as a Junior and Senior English teacher at a high school in the Green Bay area for the ’07-’08 school year. I’m very excited to start my new job, and I look forward to sharing the First-Year Teaching Experience with all of you in SNC cyberspace. If you have any questions or advice, please feel free to post!

I have several goals for this “New Teacher” blog.

1. Reflection: Both my study abroad and student teaching experiences reinforced the importance of journaling when embarking on a new challenge. This blog will offer me the opportunity to reflect on my experiences as a new teacher while also (hopefully) providing insight, advice, hints, tips, and even—yikes!—a few embarrassing moments that will help make your teaching experience less intimidating.

2. Connection: I hope that this blog helps us connect as new, future, and experienced teachers by acting as a sort of forum, a place to give and solicit advice. I’m more than happy to be a hand that pulls you out of the dark void of uncertainty (trust me, I’ve been there and may perhaps still be digging out of it).

3. Education: Just when I thought I was in touch with the digital age, thanks to classes on instructional technology and ownership of an iPod mini, the students I worked with during student teaching proved just how wrong I was! I hope this blog can teach us all how to utilize both traditional and digital teaching tools in order to best serve our students.

Now that I’ve described my goals, it’s time to work towards achieving them! Tune in next time,

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for “The Job Search Adventure!”

Best wishes,
-Stefanie