About Me

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  1. Hello. My name is Jo Koy Rock More and I
  2. am from Atlanta, Georgia.
  3. I still live here in Atlanta and I've lived here
  4. all my life except for a few years from when
  5. I went to a more traditional college in, um, Tuskegee,
  6. Alabama, to the university.
  7. I currently work as a kindergarten teacher here in Atlanta.
  8. I love working as a kindergarten teacher.
  9. This is my first year as a lead teacher.
  10. I spent three years as a, um as an associate
  11. teacher, which is kind of the same thing as a
  12. pair of professional.
  13. Um and yeah, this is my first year is the
  14. lead. I got my bachelor's from Ashford back in February,
  15. so I was able to apply for a leave position
  16. and I got it s so I was very excited.
  17. Even though we're virtual, um very exciting for me, I
  18. wanted to be a teacher all my life.
  19. Uh, that is my son Kobe.
  20. There he's 10 years old.
  21. I know he looks very big, but he's only 10.
  22. He'll be 11 next year.
  23. Kobe is who my life revolves around.
  24. So I'm usually doing my work on the sideline of
  25. a football field on the sideline of a basketball court.
  26. Um, he's very active in sports.
  27. He plays, but basketball.
  28. He's played soccer, tennis.
  29. He has, uh, lacrosse, everything.
  30. He's very active and physical, very funny and smart kid.
  31. And yeah, that's my boy.
  32. Also, soas faras my encounters with special education.
  33. Um, I don't have too many encounters with special education
  34. because I'm a kindergarten teacher.
  35. So, typically, for me to have an encounter with our
  36. special education department, Ah, child would have to be diagnosed
  37. as special needs before entering kindergarten.
  38. And that's, um, that's rare at my school.
  39. Um, usually they try toe wait, um, and see if
  40. things can be attributed to age and personality and things
  41. like that.
  42. But I have had a few kids, a couple kids
  43. who have, um, who had exceptional needs in my class,
  44. and my experiences were definitely minimal.
  45. Um, they had their own teachers that would come into
  46. the classroom what they call push in.
  47. Um, so I didn't have to do much in that
  48. area, and if they needed to be pulled out of
  49. the classroom, they would be pulled out.
  50. And while we did collaborate on things, um, their main.
  51. Uh, teacher.
  52. Was there a special ed teacher?
  53. Alright, Yeah, there's Coby, So All right, let's move along.
  54. Alright. So my professional goals, I am currently pursuing my
  55. masters degree in education with a specialization in curriculum and
  56. instruction. I want to continue to be a teacher.
  57. I want to eventually become a principle.
  58. And I think I may want Thio become an instructional
  59. specialist. Um, but I'm not sure about it, so Yeah,
  60. I also want to work for the Board of Education
  61. in my in my city one year.
  62. Monday s Oh, I'm hoping that knowledge from this course
  63. will give me some insight as to whether I want
  64. to spend a year, um, in special education.
  65. I've I've always thought it would be a good experience
  66. toe have.
  67. So I'm hoping this course will give me some more
  68. insight into whether I want to do that or not.
  69. So next I'm gonna talk to you about my current
  70. knowledge, so I don't have lunch knowledge of laws that
  71. govern special education and experience with exceptional learners.
  72. I do know that, um, a is a very private
  73. process when, um, we have meetings for those students.
  74. Privacy is always, always, always stressed.
  75. We can't even email and use those students.
  76. Full name and inclusiveness is always stressed.
  77. So that's, um no, no, that's about the extent of
  78. my knowledge about exceptional liners.
  79. Eso for folio.
  80. I've already had a folio.
  81. I don't visit it much.
  82. Um, it was pretty pretty easy to set up, and
  83. I hope it becomes more useful for me in the
  84. future. And that's just a picture of me with some
  85. of my students A couple years ago, Um, and I
  86. made them put on a little Tuskegee hats.
  87. Um, I hope you guys do well and the rest
  88. of this course