CEDO 555 Week 1

I have to first admit that I have been dreading this class for months upon months. It isn't the work that I'm dreading, well in fairness, it is but only because I'm in the beginning of the season when I'm busiest and there is a lot of work required for the class so things are stressful. With that being said, I am truly looking forward to the end results as I fully and completely understand how beneficial the documentation and illustration of my work.

In my first week I researched several different educator's portfolios and I was amazed at the diversity I found. I found many sites that just didn't make much sense to me and didn't really elecit much thought or feeling that these instructors had trully worked hard to demonstrate their skills and their knowledge and it therefore gave the impression that they were not trully great teachers despite the fact that I'm quite sure many of them are. In addition to the negative portfolios I found, I also found many great examples that blew me away. Because of these findings, I have become even more determined to create a quality portfolio of my own. I work very hard to provide my students with quality and meaningful instruction so to drop the ball on my documentation of this and make myself appear to be a subpar teacher makes little to know sense to me.

I look forward to creating a site that not only identifies my passion for teaching but also depicts my students successes in the classroom. I strive for this goal as I am firm believer that with any good instructor their is a certain amount of pride in their own work yet any self-service is secondary to success of our students. I believe that like any good employee we are only as good as our product and as educators our product is dependant upon our ability to reach our students. It is my fullest intent to allow this portfolio to be my documentation of this, my success as an educator.