Hello Parents and Students,
I wanted to take the opportunity to officially introduce myself, and let you all know how excited I am to be working in Mrs. Lovejoy's classroom for the next few months. I decided to use this blog to do that, as I will be using it throughout my time here as a tool for interacting with students and parents. I thought this would be a great way for everyone to familiarize themselves with the blog.
I grew up attending M.S.A.D. #60 schools, and graduated from Noble in 2003. In 2007 I graduated from USM with a BA in Communication. It was quite the feat for me after transferring several times and trying out several majors.
I am currently in my second semester of grad school. I am in a one year program through the University of Southern Maine called ETEP. It is a program for graduates with non-teaching degrees to earn their teaching certification and work towards their masters in teaching. I spent the Fall semester in a 5th grade classroom at York Middle School. I really enjoyed the placement and learned a lot, and hope to practice a lot of what I learned while I am here at the Hurd School. The program is pretty intense and keeps me really busy.
I love teaching! I have substitute taught for several years, taught swim lessons, music lessons, horseback riding lessons, and coached youth soccer. I've facilitated after school activities like homework groups and drama clubs as well. It has all been a major part of my life since I graduated high school.
In my personal life my favorite things to do are skiing in the winter and training and showing miniature horses throughout the Spring, Summer, and Fall. I have twice competed at the American Miniature Horse World Championship Show in Texas. I'm also a musician and play my saxophone when I have time.
The intensity of this program has kept me from working this year, although I do have a few students that I tutor or teach saxophone lessons to. Before this program, I worked as a substitute teacher, food server, and spent several summers working at recreation camps.
I look forward to working with all the students and meeting all the parents. Please comment on this post so that I know you and your child have read it. Please sign it with both your own and your child's name. Feel free to comment on future blog posts or contact me via email at mrdrown@gmail.com or by phone, (603) 978 7507.
Sincerely,
Mr. Drown
