It’s July 1 and I am in the process of traveling home for a bit before resuming my African travels with a trip to Ghana and São Tomé & Príncipe in the 2nd half of July. I decided to take some time to write a bit since I have a bit of a layover before … More Year 1 as an International School Counselor
I am really glad I chose to pursue a career in counseling and amazed at how much I am learning day-to-day from those around me (students, staff, and families). With that, the past 6 months have been a whirlwind in so many ways. Key points: May 2021: Finished up all pre-requistes for grad school, graduated … More My First 6ish Months as a School Counselor
A brief look at why I chose to move into counseling from physical education. … More The Why I Chose Counseling
So it’s January 1, 2022, and I believe November of 2019 was the last time I wrote. Needless to say, a lot has happened to me and the world during that time period. First one right off is that I now live and work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as an elementary school counselor with the … More Major Update, it’s been a while
I believe it’s been a bit since I last wrote. In October, I took a holiday to Beirut to hang out with my friend Karson which was amazing. If you get a chance to explore that country, I highly recommend it as the food and culture is great. As for PE at my school, I’ve … More Updates & Current Happenings
Hey, I know it’s been a bit, but we just came back from our October break which was two and a half weeks long. Mine was good as I got to travel in Germany a bit to see friends in Dusseldorf, along with a long trip to see a friend from North Carolina in Lebanon. … More Update: Fall Break & Intro to Movement Composition
We’re finishing up our beginning of the year by focusing on timing, rhythm, and collaboration skills throughout each class of G1-G5. EP is also working on basic turning and the willingness to keep trying when something is hard. I introduced the Yeti to them this past week, (thanks to the @phys_educator for the visuals) as … More Jump Rope Review & Challenge to the students
Week 6 was a 4-day week with Friday being a local holiday for schools. In our long classes, G1-G5 worked on their jumping and teamwork through the use of patterns and levels in Elastics (Chinese Jump Rope back home in NC). EP continued to work on jumping skills with hoop jumping, single rope jumping, and … More Week 6: Reflection and Elastics
Week 5 has come and went. Our upper school was away with Classroom without Walls, so it was just lower school with some 11th graders at school. Fewer students did not really help the workload though. We started a jumping unit this week with grades EP to G5. Either introduced or reviewed basic solo jumping … More Week 5: Jump Rope and Tag
This was my third full week (week 3 1/2 overall) of teaching in Germany. As many teachers know, it is very similar regardless of where you are in the world teaching. As I am just starting to get into true units for the year, I am still looking at where my students are in different … More Week 4: UNO Fitness & Locomotor Relays
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