Education of Physical Education

Through my experience in Thompson Rivers University’s Bachelor of Education, I partook in courses focused around physical education. This is key to me in a sense that I love sports, and I have loved my experience being on sports teams, esports teams and assistant coaching sports at Kamloops School of the Arts. Notice I wasn’t specific about which sports. I love them all and think teams are paramount to learning fundamentals about life that students need. This course was supplemental to achieving my beliefs here. Just to list sports I’ve had interest or participated in includes Softball, Bowling, Karate, Hockey, Soccer, Basketball and Volleyball, and I doubt my journey will stop with those.

Stage Management

This was a course I took part in with the Univesity of The Fraser Valley, and I choose to represent me for reasons of organization. Through my theatre major, there is not an experience in the world that I have had, that is more all-encompassing than Stage Management. This job requires documents to account for schedules, contact info, calendars, set plots, script notes, call times and the list goes on! This is one of the most organized positions in all of theatre orchestrating and liasoning all backstage crew with directors, directors with actors and it never ends. I had the pleasure of working a job with Gallery 7 Theatre in 2017, and it was truly life-changing! This plays into the intense amount of organization a teacher needs to orchestrate students, the lesson and unit plans, the administration, it all becomes very similar!

Education of Teaching and Learning I & II

Susan Mark and Christie Fraser, amongst all of TRU’s faculty in the Bachelor of Education have been hugely influential into molding me into the teacher I need to be. For this reason, I could also focus on Education of Math, Science, Socials or Education itself. Rather, I’m focusing on these as they provided many classroom ideas as simple as setting up classroom guidelines, to how to organize groups for students, to all the aspects of classroom management. I’m focusing here on these courses as they have just simply taught me so much, and supplemented what I already felt about learning. Working with fellow teacher candidates in these courses has been instrumental to networking and learning about the future of teaching.