Welcome to Mrs. Saren's Classroom 2021!

Hey parents, I'm sorry you missed open house and I'm

actually sorry, we don't have the parents come into the

classroom, that's my preferred way to do open house.

But anyway, I'm tammy sarin and I am a crew

tech teacher.

So I probably have your child in intro to business

and technology or entrepreneurship or maybe even um teaching as

a profession, probably gonna do a different video for that

anyway, so thanks for watching.

Let's go ahead and get started.

Um so this is me, well that's kind of hard

to read, but I have three kids and a husband

and a dog.

My Children went to Milton.

I still have one here, a senior.

Um so pretty soon.

I'm not gonna be a Milton mom anymore, I'm just

gonna be a Milton teacher.

Um I already mentioned the classes that I teach, I'm

also in the tag department, although not very busy with

those duties because I've got so much going on in

career tech, I love to cheer for the bulldogs and

the eagles.

Um so during the course of the year I will

talk to the students about the fish philosophy.

It's um, it's good for classroom environment, classroom culture, it's

based out of the pike place, fish market in Seattle.

They, there are four principles, one is play, having fun

doing whatever you're doing.

Um even if you're working hard um to is making

their day, so just treating people special, even when it's

not their birthday, it could be a note, it could

be a text, it could be even a smile or

just um you know using somebody's name.

And I also mentioned that you know when you make

somebody else feel good, it actually comes back and it

makes you feel good as well.

Um next principle is be there, this one's tricky because

you've got to be present, which means putting away your

phone or your laptop or your game controllers and actually

making eye contact with with the person that you're talking

to and like actually listening to them and then choose

your attitude, which you know, most of my students that

I have have lovely attitudes.

So hopefully you can say the same um when you're

at home.

But um I just talked to them about how it's

just a choice.

It's a decision.

You know, you can wake up and be grumpy, a

stinky fish or you can wake up and just choose

to be happy and sometimes it takes a while, but

eventually your mood will change.

So I'm aware of all of the demands that these

kids have on them.

They're they're busy.

They've got a lot going on.

Um I remind them that they that they should get

9.25 hours of sleep every night not just on the

weekends, not just during the summer on vacations.

And I also talked to about mindfulness and the value

of exercise and eating nutritious food.

Yeah, some of the junk that I see.

Uh um well let's skip that.

So for intro to business and technology, we are we

just um we actually have been wrapped it up yet,

but we will do employment, so resumes cover letters, even

emails more so email now references who can they use

to to speak about their character and work ethic and

then we'll talk about how to prepare for the interview.

Um some of the other units are listed there and

one thing that is offered for um for both entrepreneurship

and ensure the business and technology is they have the

opportunity to do the Microsoft office certification.

Uh Fulton County Schools feels like it's valuable enough that

they pay for the training and the actual test.

So I had several students do the training and the

testing last year, their certificates around my wall out in

the hall which you could have seen if you were

here. Um but anyway, I did over summer, I ran

into a former student who was in my class who

wasn't the best student and he was like, oh this

is san about to be a senior, he's in college,

I'm about to be a senior right now.

I've taken some of the Microsoft office certification um exams

and I'm I'm just about to take one more, I

wish I would have taken advantage of it in your

classroom and I'm like uh me too, but it's good

for me to hear it made me happy.

Um let's see, you're not teaching that right now, so

um entrepreneurship, we're actually going to um have a class

based business and then I'm going to encourage them to

branch out on their own if they don't already have

a business.

Um and even the intro to business and technology students

will be using this equipment, so we've got the commedia,

which is this, it prints vinyl for t shirts, this

is the heat press, so that actually adheres the final

to the shirts.

Uh then this is an embroidery machine, um this is

a hat machine, so the hat goes right there and

then this is a glow forge and so see if

there's a better spot.

Um Okay, so I've got some stuff that I can

show you.

One thing that I wanted to mention to is um

an entrepreneurship we spent last week design thinking, so that

is coming up with a creative solution to a big

problem. And so the problem that I posted them um

was the mess.

So a lot of people find that um they aren't

the most comfortable, it's hard to read facial expressions, hard

to hear things like that.

So, um step one is empathy, Talk to people, Talk

to the consumer, um how do you feel about it?

Uh Two is step two is um kind of define

the problem and then brainstorm come up with like crazy

ideas, it doesn't matter.

Three is actually prototype, and so I have a just

one to show you your child, um should have pictures

of their prototype because I also used their prototype as

a way to teach them how to take photos for

your products before you put them online.

So um whether they are gonna try to go with

amazon marketplace or etc.

Or instagram.

Um we've talked about using props for for the photos.

Um and then even having a model wear it and

then removing the background.

So okay, so some of the products that I've just

made with the machines so far just kind of practicing

this summer.

This was from the embroidery re machine.

Um I was talking to some students today about making

beanies because somebody was wearing a beanie that had embroidery.

This is a shirt that I made and I know

it's a cutie font with hearts.

So the students will make their own, they will choose

their own fonts.

Um so with the glow for budget cuts and engraved

wood acrylic um haven't tried metal yet but so this

was just a sign that I made.

Um uh this um is my Grand pop and so

I took a photo, removed the background and then engraved

it in wood.

And then the frame was cut by the globe forge

as well.

I um spray painted actually the glow forge also made

the holes for the string.

Um We can also make coasters, um ornaments, this is

the photo, this is the love guy.

Um Uh huh a acrylic.

So like um key chains.

I was talking to a student today.

She wants to make a key chain and this was

just a solid piece of red acrylic.

It's a license plate frame.

So um, I cut it out and put in some,

some wording the logos.

And then before I peeled off the, it's like a

masking tape.

Before I peeled off the tape, I used a sharpie

like oil paint pen and filled it in, filled in

the letters and the logo before I peeled it all.

So there's lots of neat things that the students are

going to be able to make.

This was a, you know, an existing frame that I

have and I have several of these but I did

and our engrave it with the glow forge mrs sheen.

So we're going to do lots of stuff in here.

So both the intro to business and entrepreneurship classes have

um, lab fees which I'm requesting to cover the supplies

for this stuff.

They're gonna make shirts.

Um um I don't have my visor out here.

Um, I brought it to school today, but we're also

gonna make hats.

So let me show you the room.

I was actually um here in the classroom for open

house um on monday night just because I wanted my

parents to be able to see the classroom.

So the equipment is over there.

Uh so this is it.

We also have a coffee station.

And so we are accepting donations of K pods and

coffee cups with lids.

Um T is not as popular.

There's always a request for sugar packets and creamer though.

I tried honey one day and it was gone like

before the school dance over.

So big supply for those types of things.

Anyway um I will send you the link for the

the lab fees.

Thank you so much to all of you who have

already paid and um trying to think if there was

anything else that I said the other night I went

through it so many times.

Oh I know um F.

B. L.

A. Future Business Leaders of America.

It's one of the clubs that I sponsor along with

future Georgia educators and uh I am encouraging your students

to sign up for it.

Um Not too many have so far but um but

it offers um field trips to um rallies and leadership

conferences and competitive events.

So there's a lot to offer um that will help

them with their um you know knowledge, leadership, professionalism and

then you know I always say to it's something good

that they can put on their resume especially if they

really dive in.

There's a lot of things that the the club offers,

it's kind of messy.

But anyway thanks so much for watching.

Sorry I have rambled 11 minutes.

Take care

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