MAET Goal StatementBy: Tai Kimmerly
This is me.
This was a very long time ago.
These are my parents.
Mom is a hair
dresser.
Dad is a sheet metal worker.
As far back as I can remember, I
asked for a piano.Can I please
have a
piano?
As far back as I can remember, I
asked for a piano.Can I please
have a
piano?
Can I please
have a
piano?
As far back as I can remember, I
asked for a piano.
I am a very squeaky wheel.
I also took dance as a child.
But I didn’t really dance.
I played with strange things.
I stopped doing homework.
Are you sure
you don’t have
any homework?
I stopped doing homework.
POSITIVE!
I stopped doing homework.
I switched schools.
I switched schools.
My new school had choir, so I
didn’t have to pretend to dance!
I stopped playing with weird
things.
Well, at least at school.
I once again did my
homework.
But I remembered how to work
hard.
I graduated within the top 10 of
my class.
After high school, I went to
Oakland University to study
music education.
It didn’t take long for me to
realize that friends are better
than coffee.
Graduation was here again in no
time.
Graduation was here again in no
time.
Magna Cum Laude!
My passion and current job is
teaching elementary music.
One of my goals is to have a
classroom where everyone
belongs…
Whether they play with glue,
Or need homework
reminders.
It helps to have lessons the kids
want to do.
I get the drum! The
xylophone
is mine!I want the guiro!
Can I please
have a piano?
To make sure my lessons are things
students want to do, my next goal is
to add more technology components
to my lessons.
It is a great tool to access the
world around us.
It is also an inexhaustible resource
of ways to reach my students, and
effectively engage and assess them.
In order to improve my teaching and
maximize the impact of my subject
matter on students, technology is
the method I would like to explore.
Song used:
Michaelson, Ingrid. Be OK. Cabin 24
Records, 2008. CD.