Journal for January 16th 

This week I was working a lot on my personal philosophy and looking back at the past two years (since I wrote my first philosophy two years ago) it is crazy to see how much my philosophy has changed with all the education and experience that i've received. One thing that has really helped me develop my statement was my job over the summer as a substitute teacher. During that time I was able to see a teachers hard work at action and notice what the children thought was really important and did well with in the classroom, and it also gave me an opportunity to pick up little pieces that I liked from all of the classrooms and merge them together in my own personal way. After going through this experience the most clear thing that I came to understand is my surety of wanting to be a teacher and wanting to make a positive influence in my students lives.