All about me - Meredith Kinscherf

Making a one minute video about yourself, easy, right? NOPE. This has been one of the hardest assignments to date for me to complete. It was difficult trying to decide what image to project. Do I want to make this for an audience of students and parents, colleagues, and prospective employers? The answer was yes; I wanted to figure out a way to incorporate information that would play to all of those categories. A video I could post on my google classroom page, show the parents at orientation, and use in my digital portfolio as a potential source for future employment.

I am rather uncomfortable being on film by myself at this point (something I hope to get used to in the future) and applaud all of my classmates who created their videos that way. I thought long and hard about how I wanted to project myself and decided to dig up some photos that really showed who I am as a person. Please enjoy and I look forward to your comments.

Hello World

Never did I imagine I would catch the travel bug, but I did, and once you do, its impossible to shake.

I start here because my passion for teaching came from an initial passion for travel. At 21 years old, fresh out of college and only having travelled out of the country with my immediate family, I found myself with the opportunity to travel and study in Greece. I never imagined falling in love with the experience as I did and, little did I know, it would set me on a further path of learning in eventually becoming a teacher.

My travel in Greece taught me so much about life. I learned patience, appreciation, spontaneity, and the advantages of trying anything once. (More on what travel teaches you later..) These are the things I try to instill in my students each day I spend with them.

In this blog you will find personal information relating to traveling, teaching, and my students continuous learning. These three things are very close to my heart as I am a 6th grade social studies teacher that covers Geography and Ancient Civilizations. Currently entering my 3rd year of teaching, I have had the privilege of incorporating personal stories and anecdotes I learned on this trip into my content and life lessons for my students.

Until next time...