Week 1 Post-Introduction

My name is Stephanie Puchailo and I am an Integrated B.Ed student about to begin my final placement and graduate!  I major in native studies and minor in geography.  I love learning and look forward to continuing my educational journey after I graduate in 2020.

I am currently in some fantastic courses for my last semester of Education.   Internet for Educators is the course I am blogging in and so far it scares me. Blogging in general scares me.  Thoughts like "Do I have anything important to share?" or " Will people criticize me?" come to mind.  As I do not have a lot of experience with blogging, I am practicing having a growth mindset as I work toward articulating my thoughts effectively.

I wanted to take this course to better prepare myself for teaching and learn more about tech in the classroom.  This course is stretching me out of my comfort zone which is exactly what I wanted. 

I am looking towards 2020 as a year of exploring the unknown.  I'm not going to add a list of resolutions for the new year, but rather challenges to myself.  I don't want to sit on the sidelines and wonder "what if" this year.  I want to look back on 2020 and say "Wow! I DID THAT!"

I'm going to explore some resources for helping to develop a growth mindset in my next blog post.

Please don't hesitate to leave a comment about how you are stretching yourself out of your comfort zone. If you have any growth mindset resources you wish to share please do.

 I look forward to hearing from you!

~Stephanie