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My name is Luke, and I am currently a 7th grade math teacher and head soccer coach at Clarkdale High School in Meridian. I received my Bachelor's Degree is in Computer Science from MSU in 2015, and after a few years of sitting at a computer all day every day, I decided I wanted a change. I was already coaching high school soccer(and loved it), so I decided to find a way into teaching. I started the Alt Route program at Southern last summer, and I will be finishing up this December. Between my undergrad and this program, I've taken roughly 10-12 classes online. This past school year was my first year teaching, but it was my second year coaching. I have quite a bit of knowledge with technology software skills. Since my Undergrad was in Computer Science, I had to use quite a bit of technology during that time. I also spent 2.5 years as a software support technician, where I also had to use a wide range of different software. I am very comfortable using some of the basic software such as word/google docs, power point/google slides, etc. I can also generally find my way around other software, even if I haven't used it much. All of our students have a gmail account, so I generally tried to use google's software so it would be easy to share with my students. I used google slides pretty much every day for my class for either announcements or the lesson. For communication, I have mostly used email, but I have also used blogs, discussion boards, video conferencing, and google hangouts. I might be a little old school in thinking this, but I prefer email to communicate. I am able to get all of the emails directly to my phone so it's easy and convenient. I do not mind using any of the other methods, but email is my preferred method. With regards to education, I have not used technology as much as I would like too. I have a classroom set of Chromebooks, so I do use those quite often. I'll use Kahoot to review, or assign Khan Academy lessons so the students are getting a different teaching style than how I do it. I have even used an online testing site to give the students quizzes/tests. I would like to start implementing technology more often into my lessons, though. As far as my teaching philosophy, I believe that school is meant to teach students skills that will help them make society a better place once they're out of high school. I try to make sure that I am not only teaching students Math, but I also am teaching them skill that they will use for the rest of their life.
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