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  1. Welcome back, everybody.
  2. Welcome to school.
  3. Hello? Mhm.
  4. My name is Luke Benson, and I'm a brand new
  5. teacher. Just graduated with my English degree from Purdue Northwest.
  6. Um, ever since I was younger, I loved, uh, the
  7. written word creative endeavor such as poetry and music writing,
  8. um, reading.
  9. And now I'm excited to be able to share some
  10. things that I have learned with the kids.
  11. And, um, let me show you, tell you just a
  12. little bit of the ways that I'm going to do
  13. that actually come from a very different background.
  14. I worked for over 12 years in the road construction
  15. industry, actually, and worked with, um, rocks and tar and
  16. physics and things like that.
  17. Um, but I decided to go back to school and
  18. actually finished my degree in English and go back to
  19. more of my passion and more fulfilling career, which would
  20. be, um, sharing my creative passion with students.
  21. Uh, my philosophy is a very balanced philosophy, meaning I
  22. am organized, and I had planned, but I'm also very
  23. flexible. Um, and this is a great skill to teach
  24. all of my students, Um, meaning that there is a
  25. right way to do things, and it's important to follow
  26. the rules of grammar and writing things like this, but
  27. also to be creative within that and to really have
  28. the heart and the field behind it.
  29. Um, I think no matter what the field is, I
  30. stress very much with my students.
  31. Um, no matter what field they're going into, it could
  32. be, um, cleaning a hotel, working for a tech company,
  33. working for a big corporation.
  34. It could be in the field of science or technology
  35. or mathematics or anything.
  36. You're gonna have coworkers.
  37. You're gonna have people that you need to communicate with.
  38. So learning how to communicate better in the real world,
  39. um, is really, uh, English is for everybody, whether you
  40. like literature or not really gonna help you in your
  41. future career.
  42. So, um, it is practical and applicable to all my
  43. kids. Uh, collaboration is going to be a big thing.
  44. Um, we're not just not just always working alone.
  45. There's time in a place to work alone, but, uh,
  46. kids really can learn a lot more by from each
  47. other, not just for me, but from each other.
  48. I can learn more from my peers and my fellow
  49. teachers and the kids can learn a lot from each
  50. other a couple of different ways that I'm going to
  51. use technology in the classroom, Um, at times flipping the
  52. classroom, meaning, uh, allowing the students to choose what the
  53. subject of study is going to be.
  54. Not always my choice.
  55. Allowing them to maybe bring in their own song or
  56. their own, uh, book or their own clip of a
  57. video, things like that to discuss and analyze and really
  58. dig into and get behind, um, another way that I'm
  59. going to use Technology is calling in the experts I
  60. know very much to when to admit that I don't
  61. always know the answers.
  62. Or maybe I don't know the right way exactly or
  63. the best way.
  64. And that doesn't make me week or un prepared.
  65. Just makes me truthful to the kids and on.
  66. There's times where I can have a video chat writing
  67. class with an expert or with unauthorized e in a
  68. certain field or somebody that can just really facilitated discussion,
  69. uh, in a certain topic, the best way and somebody
  70. that is.
  71. It's different for the kids to have a different voice
  72. coming into the classroom.
  73. So we're going to use that technology a lot.
  74. Another thing that we're gonna use is just and overall
  75. philosophy of, uh, organization, Elektronik organization, um, Elektronik, Citizenship.
  76. Elektronik. Um, okay, preparedness.
  77. That is really going to set them up for future
  78. success. Like I said, no matter what they're going into,
  79. maybe when they leave my class, they never want to
  80. write another essay again or dissect a line of poetry
  81. or anything like that.
  82. And if that's not what they're into, that's fine with
  83. me. But they are going to find that the tools
  84. that they've learned to communicate in the tools that they've
  85. learned to, um, be prepared, um, within their language and
  86. their communication skills is going to build upon and really
  87. going to set them up for future success, no matter
  88. what they do.
  89. So I am excited about it, and I, um, hope
  90. to do the best I can for your kids and
  91. all the students.
  92. And, um, please talk to me whenever you want Any
  93. questions you