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I am often proud of the work I do.  I put my best effort into the things I do, so why wouldn’t I be proud? This year I created my very first Year Plan.  We were given a choice of assignments to do in EHE 317 and I chose a year plan as one of mine.  It was the first time I had been given the opportunity, and it felt like it might be the last opportunity I would have as well.

I am not going to lie, I was a little scared.  I knew that “Phys Ed Kathy” expected a lot from her students and was a tough marker and this would be the first assignment I would hand in to her as “Health Kathy”.  By the way, we refer to her as Health Kathy and Phys Ed Kathy in the most endearing way.  You can feel her passion in both subjects and you know that she really just wants you to learn and take as much from the classes as you can.  She is just a little more… sunshiney teaching us Health.  So with all of that in mind, when I got my year plan assignment back from her I was crazy happy.  In university, a 90% is basically a 100%.  No one gives out perfect marks here, I have come to accept that.  So, a 90%? Woo hoo!

In class we were looking at resources from SHEA (Saskatchewan Health Educators Association) and Kathy said they were always open to receiving resources from teachers and future teachers that would be shared on their website.  I was so proud of my year plan that I thought “Hey, why not?”  I made the adjustments based on the feedback Kathy left me and sent them my year plan.  Now, that was quite a while ago already – much before we all went off to pre-internship.  So you can imagine my surprise and delight when an email came in from Shelley Barthel, thanking me for my submission and letting me know that I could find it on their website!

She is talking about me!

I have been published twice before.  I worked on a project in my Psychology degree with some really great people and had a paper and a poster published with my (maiden) name on them.  I am proud of that work too, but having this published feels a little different.  This is something that another teacher could pick up and actually use.  It could make the life of a teacher easier.  It’s not a long research paper that is only applicable to a very specific field.

Published and Presented at the 2012 Arlington ADAA Convention

Lots of times as future teachers we try to create everything from scratch, but we need to internalize that collaboration is key!  SHEA has lots of great resources and mine just happens to be one of them!