I've never been a blogger, I honestly never thought I would be either. As a kid I would start a journal to keep track of my thoughts, be really excited for about two weeks, then my next entry would be around two years later.
I've titled this blog the Mrs. Sorenson project because I am an up and coming teacher. My students next year will call me Mrs. Sorenson, but I'm still not quite sure what being a teacher really means. Yes, I had teachers who changed me. Some inspire me. I have those dreams of being the kind of teacher to one of my students that those teachers were to me. But what does it mean to really BE a teacher?
I read in Heaven is for Real that a preacher doesn't have the luxury of "losing it in public." I don't believe an elementary school teacher does either. Our job is too important to make a bad impression on a student who just happens to be in the back seat of a car that we make a rude gesture towards for cutting us off on I-15.
I don't know what kind of teacher I'm going to be, but I have an internship coming down the pipeline for me in August. I'm going to teach 2nd or 3rd grade, and I'll eventually figure out what I'm doing. This blog is to track things that work for me, things that didn't (there will definitely be many of those), and insights for myself. My teachers always said that they learned more from us than we did from them. I'm hoping that by keeping track of the things I learn on this blog I'll be able to really find out what steps I can take to be my best Mrs. Sorenson
