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Mr. Cook
Mr. Cook
Outside of the classroom I am blessed to have the opportunity to coach with multiple programs. I have coached football for 5 full seasons since 2019. The photo on the right is from my first season as a Head Coach in the spring of 2022 for the Boise Black Knights club team.
After being born and raised in Baker City, Oregon, I decided to attend Boise State University in the fall of 2015 to receive a Bachelors in Mathematics with Emphasis in Secondary Education. I completed my undergrad in the fall of 2019, where I then served a substitute teacher in a variety of classrooms in the Boise School District the following spring. In the summer of 2020 I taught credit recovery 7th grade math for Boise School District, and ended the summer by joining the staff here at Saint Ignatius for the 2020-2021 academic year to serve as the Middle School Math Teacher. This fall will begin my third full year as a classroom teacher here at S.I. in that roll, where I stress the importance in developing a student's confidence in themselves as a learner and as a member of our community.
My Goals for My Classroom
My Goals for My Classroom
The goal of STEM education is to help students develop and strengthen their skills in problem solving by using examples and or situations that students can identify in their daily lives. The math program here at SI exemplifies this. We strive to make the math that each student learns applicable to their daily life, and ask students to begin the observation of how those things manifest in their outside life.
Education is more than just one subject or one teacher. My dream is that each student that I come into contact with develops the skills they need to become lifelong learners and consumers of information. Today's world only continues to get more complex with the ever-expanding capabilities of technology. I want students to understand that you are never too old to learn new things, and never too far gone to apply what you have learned over you lifetime.
Lastly, "I don't like math" and "I am not good at math" things students say that help give them an out in a tough subject such as math. Each student is expected to come to class ready to work and engage with the material. I consistently echo to students that a mistake in math is a growing pain, not the nail in the coffin. Challenging problems will consistently appear before them for the remainder of their lifetimes, and I hope that each student leaves my classroom knowing that no challenge is insurmountable.
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