My Mount Everest

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 1. Why did I get into this job? 

Because I love teaching and I love helping people learn new things. 

2. What is it that I hope my work with students accomplishes this school year? 

I hope that I can help them become better thinkers in this crazy more and more nonsensical world we live in. 


That was something that I needed to develop for school. We doing a book study on Dave Stuart and we needed to develop our Everest statement. I think I had a much clearer idea of what this was at the beginning of my teaching career. Now it tends to get a little fuzzy as it's tied in with what I have accomplished in the past. So it's a little iffy, but I will work on it some. 

I want my students to be able to analyze things and figure out what is right and what is wrong. 

I want them to not get taken by nonsense, like so many adults I know have been. 

I want them to be able to think critically and not get taken in by nonsense. 

I want my students to have a basic understanding of science so they can understand the world around them. 

I want my students to have a respect and wonder for the amazing world we live in. 

I want my students to be able to listen to others and have civil discourse about a topic. 

I want my students to be able to voice their opinion and support it with facts. 

I want my students to be able to stand up to nonsense. 

That's a lot of things that I want and none of them are directly related to chemistry. Interesting. So to boil this down into one sentence: 

I want my students to have a wonder for the amazing world we live in and to learn to think critically about what they see, hear, and experience. 


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