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My name is Meghan Carney, and I am a devoted, wholehearted educator who aspires to bring an open viewpoint through multiple perspectives to my individual students' education. Please, take a look at my online portfolio website to learn more about my passion for education.
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What inspires me...
In the small town of Slayton, MN I was raised in a bookstore. My parents owned the quaint bookshop that was connected to our home, and I spent much of my childhood helping around the store, and discovering my passion for literature. However, constantly being surround by books was not the sole instigator in my interest in reading and books in general. When I was young, my father read to me nearly every night before bed. The most memorable series was the Laura Ingles Wilder collection of Little House on the Praire. Once I was fluent enough, he would read a chapter, and then he would patiently listen as I worked my way through the next one. This went on and on until I worked up the gumption to pick up Redwall, the first novel I read completely by myself. From there on, books have always been a very influential and prominent part of my life. That skill and interest, I believe, resonates with the time my father spent every evening reading with me.
Moving through school, English quickly became my favorite subject, and I soon found a mentor in my high school English teacher and Speech Team Coach Mrs. Devereaux. I consider her my mentor because she taught me more than just grammar and how to write a five paragraph essay. She often spent Saturday or Sunday afternoons with me discussing novels that I had currently read, my current life struggles, and what I would like to pursue in the future. I stay in contact with her still to this day, and when I visit home, she is one of the first people I make time to visit. Mrs. Devereaux has and always will be the model I turn to when I consider the types of relationships that many people, and many students, need in their day to day life.
However, people are not the only things that influenced my decision to become a teacher. My life outside of school has greatly shaped not only who I am as a person, but who I am and want to become as a teacher. I like to spend my free time outdoors doing such things as hiking, kayaking, camping, slack-lining, snowshoeing, and above all, rock climbing. I have been an avid rock climber for a number of years now, and it has helped me to push past many boundaries to see full potential in all situations. Climbing is something that is a constant learning experience for me, because you will never find two rock formations that are exactly the same. The challenges and situations that are provided are a true test of skill and problem solving that push me to continue working to become a better climber. It helps to feed the ever burning want to learn that all humans posses, and it is a mirror image of how I view myself as an educator. Education is an ever changing field, and no one student is the same. No matter the challenges in the classroom, or out on the rocks, all I desire is improvement and further development of my abilities.
That passion and excitement I find through rock climbing reiterates my passion for learning and teaching itself. The spark I feel when I learn a new thing or accomplish something I have been working on for weeks is something that I desire to share with my students. Helping students to find their own motivation to learn is the most important thing to me as an educator, and that is the notion that my father and Mrs. Devereaux raised me in believing and rock climbing helps me to continue to keep alive.
Moving through school, English quickly became my favorite subject, and I soon found a mentor in my high school English teacher and Speech Team Coach Mrs. Devereaux. I consider her my mentor because she taught me more than just grammar and how to write a five paragraph essay. She often spent Saturday or Sunday afternoons with me discussing novels that I had currently read, my current life struggles, and what I would like to pursue in the future. I stay in contact with her still to this day, and when I visit home, she is one of the first people I make time to visit. Mrs. Devereaux has and always will be the model I turn to when I consider the types of relationships that many people, and many students, need in their day to day life.
However, people are not the only things that influenced my decision to become a teacher. My life outside of school has greatly shaped not only who I am as a person, but who I am and want to become as a teacher. I like to spend my free time outdoors doing such things as hiking, kayaking, camping, slack-lining, snowshoeing, and above all, rock climbing. I have been an avid rock climber for a number of years now, and it has helped me to push past many boundaries to see full potential in all situations. Climbing is something that is a constant learning experience for me, because you will never find two rock formations that are exactly the same. The challenges and situations that are provided are a true test of skill and problem solving that push me to continue working to become a better climber. It helps to feed the ever burning want to learn that all humans posses, and it is a mirror image of how I view myself as an educator. Education is an ever changing field, and no one student is the same. No matter the challenges in the classroom, or out on the rocks, all I desire is improvement and further development of my abilities.
That passion and excitement I find through rock climbing reiterates my passion for learning and teaching itself. The spark I feel when I learn a new thing or accomplish something I have been working on for weeks is something that I desire to share with my students. Helping students to find their own motivation to learn is the most important thing to me as an educator, and that is the notion that my father and Mrs. Devereaux raised me in believing and rock climbing helps me to continue to keep alive.