Having spent a few days at CTLT, I’ve started to see a faint path that I could follow during my time here. My one big, and most important, goal is to learn and improve as a teacher. I’m not a perfect teacher (and never will be), so there is so much to learn and see from all the new people I’ve met. Alluding to my high school days, I would love to do a “Take Your Kids to Work Day”, shadowing my supervisors to see what they do in the day.

I’m starting to understand what CTLT is all about, and I would really love to see the collaboration that takes place between CTLT and UBC faculties. Being a fresh graduate from the Faculty of Arts in 2012, I did not know about all the “behind the scenes” things that take place within each faculty, or even within each course. CTLT is a huge contributor to the learning and the teaching that takes place at UBC. As a future educator myself, I would love to see the possible changes that may happen in learning and teaching at the University level. I did my elementary education practicum at Charles Dickens Elementary, which is quite a different, non-traditional, school. I loved the philosophy there and have brought most of the things I learned from them into my own teaching philosophy. The problem with having a more “non-traditional” philosophy is that there is definite uncertainty whether what you do in your classroom will help your kids in the future – in high school and university. If there are any changes happening at UBC, it will definitely help me build a more positive light towards my own teaching philosophy.

Lastly, a goal of mine would be to contribute in some way to my supervisors, or to CTLT as a whole, in even the most minute way. As a future teacher and educator, I hope to be able to bring something to the table!