Rachelle Poth
Contact: Twitter @rdene915
Voxer @rdene915
Blog: www.rdene915.com
MISSION: DEVELOPMENTWhat is your story?
Five areas to work on developing this week
Develop Relationships, Sense of Adventure, Goals, Confidence and your Brand
What kind of educator do you want to be? What motivates you? How do you connect with others?Who has had an impact on you as an educator? Who are your superheroes?What scares you about education?Where do you find support when you need it?What motivates you?
Quotes that bring reflective thoughtsJohn Dewey "We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience."Amy Tan, TED Talk , quoted in Mark Gura's :Make, Learn Succeed. "The value of nothing - out of nothing comes something."J.E. Brophy "When we teach things the right way, motivation takes care of itself."Jimmy Casas "What we model is what we get."Don Wettrick "Failure and our response is what defines us." Pure Genius
John Wooden, Basketball coach "Little things make the big things happen."Kid President: "What kind of educator will you be? Listen and move on, or Listen and engage?"
Zig Ziglar: FEAR = Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise?
Rick Jetter and Rebecca Coda, Dunk Tank "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you aren't" - Unknown
T.S. Eliot: "Only those who risk going to far, can possibly find out how far they can go." from TLAP
George Couros: If your students didn't have to be there, would you be teaching to an empty room?TLAP: "Thinking will not overcome Fear but action will."
Maya Angelou: "We do better when we know better."
Bio:
I have been teaching for 20 years and currently teach Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology Teacher at Riverview Junior Senior High School in Oakmont, PA. I am also an attorney and earned my Juris Doctor Degree from Duquesne University School of Law and have a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology. I am the Communications Chair for the ISTE Mobile Learning Network, the President-Elect and Innovations and Resources Co-Chair for the Teacher Education Network and the PAECT Historian.
I was selected as the 2017 Outstanding Teacher of the Year by PAECT (the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications in Technology, the PA affiliate of ISTE) and by the NSBA as one of the "20 to watch" educators for 2017.
I am proud to be involved in several communities including being a Common Sense Media Educator, an Ambassador for BloxelsEDU, Buncee, CoSpaces, Flipgrid, Hoonuit, and an Edmodo Certified Trainer, Nearpod PioNear, Recap Pioneer, TES Ambassador and Ambassador for several other networks.
I wrote chapter 3 of the Edumatch book “Snapshot in Education 2016”, and I am a contributing author to “Gamify Literacy” from ISTE. I am currently working on a chapter about Project Based Learning for the Edumatch 2017 book and a chapter on Social Presence in Online Learning, I enjoy blogging and writing for Kidblog and Teach Thought, and I am always looking for new learning opportunities to benefit my students. You can connect with me on Twitter @rdene915.