My name is Brittlyn Trahan and I am so excited to finally be in Senior Block this semester! I have always had a passion for children and anything to do with teaching. I come from a family of educators and have spent just about every holiday, weekend, and summer vacation working in my mother’s classroom. My ideal grade level would either be first of second grade. I just adore children of that age and love their little personalities. I am most excited about teaching reading and sharing literature with my class. I absolutely loved reading anything I could get my hands on as a child. My “classroom” library is already busting at the seams! Math has always been my least favorite subject to teach since it was a weak area in elementary school. I have anxiety with so many of the content area skills to teach. Hopefully the math methods class this semester will boost my confidence and understanding of ways to successfully reach and teach children.
A Little About Me
I’m a Louisiana native and a Mississippi Gulf Coast transplant. I lived in Shreveport, LA until I was about 14 and my family moved to Ocean Springs, MS after my father was re-stationed at Keesler Air Force Base. After I graduated high school I attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Jackson County for two years and then transferred to Southern Miss. My mother is a third grade teacher at St. Alphonsus Catholic School in Ocean Springs and has been educating young minds for ten years! She is the main reason I decided to become a teacher since she showed me that it is a great profession for anyone who wants a family. I love to help her at school, tutor her students, and read to her class. My father was just recently transferred in July to Minot, ND for 2 years. We miss him dearly, but he flies in every now and then to visit us. He is a selfless hardworking person and I’m so lucky to have him in my life. My sister is a freshman at Southern Miss this year. She is a Biochemistry major and has dreams of getting in to Medical School and becoming an eye surgeon. She is fully of personality and so driven. I’m really enjoying spending my last year of college and her first year together!
I'm recently engaged! A month after my 21st birthday my boyfriend of four years finally popped the question on the beach in our hometown. My fiancé just recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from Auburn University in December and is now attending graduate level Nursing School at The University of South Alabama. He is my biggest supporter and constantly encourages me to be the best teacher I can be. We’re currently planning our wedding and so excited about our big day, June 15, 2013.
In my spare time I enjoy cooking, organizing anything and everything, wedding planning, decorating, reading, and blogging. My latest project that I have been working on is trying to perfect making wheat bread from scratch. The first try was successful, but I still have lots to learn! I also enjoy collecting items for my future classroom, going to Mass with my family, and trying to keep up with ESPN and my fiancé’s endless knowledge of sports statistics.
About the Syllabus
While I was reading the syllabus the thing that stuck out to me most was our pen pal from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. That seems like such a unique experience and such a wonderful way to use our blogs to communicate with other teacher candidates like ourselves. I think that this class is about promoting literacy and literacy practices in classrooms in all subject areas. I hope to learn many new and interesting ways to approach implementing literacy in the classroom across all content areas. This coursework looks exciting and I’m ready to see what all CIR 411 has to offer me!
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