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Portfolio Part: Pete Miller: An Education Origin Story
Your Teaching Origins
Pete Miller: An Education Origin Story
Step One
In the boxes below, Name those things/people/experiences that have shaped your approach to teaching. Describe their Influence. Add as many as you would like.
In the Rank column, try to rank your influences (as best as you can), where the lowest number means the greatest amount of influence.
| Name | Influence | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| My mom | paycheck, responsibility, love of children | 7 |
| My wife | love of nature, love of children, speaking truth to power | 2 |
| Fear | of the unknown, of putting myself in situations I wasn’t prepared for, of not giving students all that they deserved | 6 |
| Love of content areas | lifelong news junkie, appreciator of good writing, enthusiasm for advertising/PR/communications/Journalism | 1 |
| a college girlfriend | quit being an education major after storming out of a class with choice words about her beliefs that it was useless. Wound up switching to math and becoming a statistician. | 5 |
| PSU support and encouragement | building confidence and skills | 3 |
| the challenge | of taking on something new that I think is important | 4 |
Step Two
Choose three influences you identified and write three paragraphs about the impact they had on your teaching.
Paragraph 1: Identify specific ways in which these influences can be seen in your teaching.
Paragraph 2: Discuss whether you feel like that overall impact has been positive or negative.
Paragraph 3: Imagine your future teaching self and write how you would like to further integrate or eliminate these influences.
I haven’t done this part yet but am submitting because I don’t want to lose what I have above, which isn’t finished yet either.
