My Involvement in TAFE

This year I have become a very active member in TAFE. At the beginning of the school year in the region TAFE conference, another intern and I got together to co-author a children's book as part as the Count on Character competition. We did not make it to state, but we still have a great children's book to read to our students. Later on in the year, I got elected as the class historian as well as 3 other interns. We were to create a chapter scrapbook that we would present in the State TAFE Conference. After many long hours of work and stress, we were presented with a blue ribbon! I was very proud of myself and I wouldn't change one thing about how that scrapbook was created. As well as entering in the scrapbook, I was also apart of the breakout session we taught called "Are You Pinterested In Teaching?" This break out session had lots of fun teacher activities you can do in your classroom with your students, or teacher appreciation ideas. The State TAFE Conference was very successful and our chapter had a lot of winnings in the competitions!

Who is Stacey Bess?

Stacey Bess is an amazing teacher and person. She has endured many hardships that probably none of us will come into contact with. Yes, Stacey is a teacher, but her classroom is not an ordinary classroom. At first Stacey started teaching homeless people in a hut under the freeway, eventually she got her own classroom in a homeless shelter. Stacey has a different class almost every day and never knows if she is going to see her students the next day.

• I don't know if I would have the strength to do what she does everyday, it would be to emotional for me.

While Stacey took some time off to take care of her newborn baby, she would find herself writing about her life stories more since she couldn't be out there living them. She published this book and it is called "Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love From the School With No Name." Later on she had a movie made about her life called "Beyond the Blackboard".
This Sunday I am getting  chance to watch her movie on a charter bus on the way to the TAFE State Conference and I am also getting to meet her during the conference! I am super excited and can not wait to watch the movie and meet her




Resources: Newspaper Article   Movie Info.

Bullying In School

I feel like almost every child and/or teenager encounters bullying throughout growing up. Especially with how many social networks are out there now, there are more opportunities for children to bully others. Though some bullying happens at school, most of the bullying happens outside of school either over the internet or through cell phones. A good example of bullying at my high school is over Twitter, a student created an account called "Bash Birdville". Each day they would post a mean tweet about someone at Birdville. The school got it shut down, but it took a good month for the school to realize what was happening. Teachers need to be more aware of bullying that goes on during school and needs to be more strict on punishment when they catch it, because the person who created that twitter account did not even get in trouble. If the school really wanted to they could have found out who created that and punish them correctly. When I become a teacher, I am going to take bullying very seriously and take the necessary actions for when I catch a student bullying another.


Resources: FW ISD