Esther Myers

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  1. Hey, welcome, My name is Esther Myers and this Prezi
  2. it's just a quick little introduction into my life, what
  3. I want to take this class, my educational background.
  4. So here we go to begin, this is a picture
  5. of my family.
  6. I've been married to my husband deter for um 17
  7. years. We have four kids, three boys.
  8. One girl, my oldest Judah is an eighth grader.
  9. He's 13, jake is in sixth grade, he's 11 luke
  10. is in second grade, he's eight.
  11. And adding my baby girl is in kindergarten this year,
  12. she's five, she's very excited to be at school with
  13. her brother, so that's a lot of fun.
  14. Uh My kids are really active in a lot of
  15. sports, so I feel like I spend a good portion
  16. of my day driving them around to places, just like
  17. their own little personal chauffeur, but that's okay, it's a
  18. lot of fun.
  19. I love watching them get to do what they love
  20. to do.
  21. My family also loves to travel.
  22. This is a picture of us in Oregon list last
  23. summer. Our goal is to hit all 50 states with
  24. all four kids before my oldest graduates from high school.
  25. Um We still have a few states to go, but
  26. we're making good progress.
  27. I think we'll make it by the time he graduates
  28. in every state.
  29. We'd love to take these kind of silly crazy pictures.
  30. Um My kids are just really funny with their different
  31. poses and it's a lot of fun to look back
  32. through them, to see what they've come up with in
  33. terms of my education.
  34. I'm a K State, er I got my undergrad and
  35. secondary education through K State Go Cats, and then after
  36. I graduated, I worked for three years at Gardner Edgerton
  37. High School.
  38. I was a language arts teacher, I had mostly sophomores
  39. and juniors and then one speech class, which was a
  40. lot of fun.
  41. I loved being there, but when my oldest son was
  42. born, I made the decision to stay at home with
  43. him. So I've been home with my kids since he
  44. was born and like I said, he's 13, so it's
  45. been a long time since I've worked in the classroom
  46. and that's one of the reasons why I want and
  47. need to take this class.
  48. I would like to get my teaching license renewed so
  49. that I can maybe go back in the next year
  50. too to be in the classroom again.
  51. So I'm a little nervous about that going back, but
  52. also excited to, I'm ready for this next season of
  53. my life.
  54. So I think it'll be good.
  55. I have my Masters through Pit State University.
  56. Um it's, my degree is in educational technology, which basically
  57. means I can be a library media specialist.
  58. So I'm thinking about pursuing that route when I go
  59. back and I'm kind of excited about it.
  60. I feel like that would really be a good fit
  61. for me, something that I would enjoy.
  62. One of the reasons why I went through Pit State
  63. was because when I was getting my masters we lived
  64. in the Middle East for 2.5 years in Doha Qatar
  65. or Qatar.
  66. Uh this is a picture of my family, we just
  67. had two kids at the time so it works really
  68. well for me to go through Pit States so that
  69. I could get it all completed online.
  70. Yeah part of the curriculum that I needed to complete,
  71. I had to do um some practicum hours in a
  72. school library and so the american school of johanna that
  73. you see pictured here was so gracious to work with
  74. me. I was able to work with three different library
  75. media specialist and they were all wonderful, I was able
  76. to work in the high school middle school and elementary,
  77. so it was so perfect and I love getting to
  78. see how they did things there as opposed to how
  79. things are done here, such a great experience And then
  80. 2020 came and everything was all crazy, I was able
  81. to dust off my teaching license of it and um
  82. come up with lesson plans for all well really just
  83. three of my kids, my little girl, I did some
  84. stuff with but mainly the older ones thankfully there are
  85. some fantastic resources out there that teachers have already put
  86. together different um different uses of technology and so we
  87. were able to come up with some pretty good stuff
  88. but this is one of again one of the reasons
  89. why I want to take this class.
  90. I want to see what else is out there in
  91. terms of technology use in the classroom.
  92. I feel like technology is vital for students.
  93. They love it.
  94. It keeps them engaged.
  95. And when you can incorporate that technology into the classroom,
  96. I feel like it's a really, really powerful tool outside
  97. of my family and my education.
  98. What I love to do, What I'm passionate about is
  99. singing and playing the guitar.
  100. I lead worship at my church on a monthly basis.
  101. Sometimes it's a little bit more than that.
  102. So this is a picture of me here playing and
  103. singing. I sing all the time.
  104. I drive my kids crazy.
  105. They're always telling me to stop, but okay, it is
  106. what it is, that's just part of life.
  107. So that's a brief look into my life and education.
  108. So thank you so much.
  109. Bye.