 Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel, Eples and Tiara. So today I'm gonna do the I Teach To Teacher Tag video created by Megan at Too Cool for Middle School. I'm so excited to do this tag. Absolutely love doing tags. Jennifer and I created the Teacher Tag months and months and months ago and we've had so much fun creating it and I'm really, really excited to be answering some new questions. So thank you Megan for creating this wonderful tag and I tag all of you out there to do this tag. I tag Jennifer from Genuine Teaching. I know she's been tagged already but she hasn't filmed her video yet, so I'm tagging you. And yeah, so I'm gonna just go ahead and get started. It's actually 6.40 in the morning and I'm ready early to go to Ikea with Jennifer today. So I'm like, you know what, let's just film the video. So I'm gonna just go ahead and get into the questions and I'm sorry that I'm squinting but I'm not gonna wear my glasses in this video because there's a glare from the window and I'm sorry about the background. My office is now a nursery and so there aren't a lot of ample places to film in my house now. So I'm gonna have to sort that out but for now this will work. Okay, the first question is what do you teach and where? I teach fourth grade in Arizona. Number two, how long have you been teaching? This will be my fourth class and it's weird that I have to answer that way because I graduated college in December so I actually came through half of the year so this will be my third and a half year teaching but my fourth class. Did you always know you wanted to be a teacher? No, well kind of, yes, yes and no. I always loved the idea of being a teacher because I always loved helping people. I always loved kids. I was always that person or that child that would play school in the playroom with all your friends. Just like a lot of you do or have. But my actual first path of career, my first career choice was actually to be a performer either on Broadway or in film or just a performer in general. I got accepted into a lot of different performing arts colleges, USC performing arts, American Music Dramatic Academy, New York Conservatory, Cal State Theater, Cal Arts, just a ton of different colleges for theatrical arts and after my first semester of going through that I decided this isn't for me, I wanna be a teacher because teaching is a lot like performing. Every day you get to perform for your students, you get to put on a show, it's all theatrical, it's all energetic and I think that teaching and theater kinda go together but yeah, I did finally choose the right path into teaching but I didn't always, I did as a child but when I was an older teenager, when you're right out of high school you're like, oh I'm gonna go do this and then you change course and finally I'm here. So what is your typical teacher OOTD? That's teacher outfit of the day. I really love my school and my principal because she's super lenient on our outfits, on our attire. We can't wear jeans every day, we can't wear open-toed like just flip-flops but we are allowed to wear colored jeans and graphic tees and tennis shoes. So my total like go-to outfit of the day would be a black pair of jeans with a pair of Converse and a graphic tee kind of like this or like that says something about teaching or like I love my students or something like that. That would be my go-to outfit just because it's so comfortable and easy for me to get up and down, move around. I'm constantly working around in different areas and getting up and down in different positions and so I think that wearing something comfortable like that is really, really, really awesome. So that would be my go-to teacher OOTD. It's gonna get really interesting this school year because I'm gonna be big pregnant when I go back to work so getting some teacher outfits is on my list. Let's see, what do you usually bring for lunch? This is a great question. I'm a really, really persnickety eater, not like picky but I like to have different options and I don't like eating the same thing every day. It kind of drives me insane. But most of the time I will bring like leftovers from what I had the night before for lunch or I'll bring, when I'm not pregnant, I'll bring like a sandwich, a turkey sandwich or some kind of salad or just, I don't know. I try to bring like a fruit and a vegetable and protein at every meal, especially lunch. And if I forget my lunch, sometimes I just get school lunch and the school lunch is pretty good. There's a salad bar and there's always a protein option so if I forget lunch, I can just grab that and it works pretty well. But mostly just leftovers from the day before or just little think auctions that have come up with like rolled up turkey with cheese and carrots and yogurt and hummus or something, you know, like that. What is one of your favorite books about teaching? I think, I don't really read a lot. I don't really have a lot of time to read and I'm one of those people that doesn't reach for a book when there's nothing else to do. I enjoy reading in there. I just, I'm really picky with my genres so I don't really pick up a lot of books. I prefer to learn visually through verbal and kinesthetic. So I like to do hands-on learning so I'd rather go to a PD than pick up a book and read it. But I have read the first days of school and I forget who writes that. Harry Wong, I probably am messing this up but I'll link the book down below and or one, two, three magic for teaching. Those are the two books that I've read that are specific to teaching outside of like college textbooks but the one, two, three magic is a really good behavior management system for difficult behaved classes and if you haven't heard about it, it's basically like, okay, I asked you to do something. You didn't do it, I'm gonna count. Okay, that's one. They do it again. Okay, that's two. On three you're gonna take five minutes out of the group and you're gonna have time out or you're gonna have a consequence. You tell them what consequence will be. Okay, that's three, take five. So they know that this consequence is coming every time you reach the number three. So there's no argument, you know? It's not like, well, I, no, I counted to three. Go take your consequence. And after a while they catch on and they really respond to it but those are the only two books that I've really read that are teaching related. What is one of your favorite teacher movies? I love the movie, The Freedom Writers with what's her name, Hillary Swank. I think that's a really, really inspiring movie to take all those troubled kids and turn them into these wonderful writers and some people that are proud of what they do. I also love the movie Bad Teacher. In fact, Jennifer had never seen it so I took it over there and we watched it last week and we were both cracking it. But yeah, those would be my two favorite teacher movies. Who was your favorite teacher? My favorite teacher was my fourth grade teacher. Her name was Mrs. Tripp and she was just so fun and so inspiring and engaging. I remember she would sing to us, she would dance around the room, she would play music like you'd be listening to, you know, hit me baby one more time because that's what was really in when I was in fourth grade in like 2000. 2000, yeah, 1999. And she would let us do Reader's Theater and she'd give us these amazing projects where we had to come to school dressed up or we had to make models of California missions because I grew up in California until I was 12. And it was just always so much fun in her room. There was never like a time where you felt unhappy in there. Even if you were getting in trouble, you know, there was never a moment where you felt unloved. I think that's the most important part of her. She loved you. And I was actually very close with her up until last year. We were Facebook friends and she wanted to come to my graduation and she was always so positive and you know, would comment on all my posts and send me messages, encouraging messages. And she actually lost a battle with cancer last year but you could just tell with her passing how many people came out of the woodwork. Like all of these people who she had touched and who had the same feelings as me and who loved her because she was just so amazing. So that's my favorite teacher. So I strive to be like Mrs. Tripp. That's my goal. I wanna be just like her. What are some of your favorite teacher YouTubers? Instagram or Snapchatters, et cetera. Some of my favorite teacher YouTubers, I love genuine teaching. She's my best friend on YouTube and in real life. I also love watching Pocket Full of Primary. I always put her movies, her vlogs on the weekends when I'm like getting ready for cleaning, I have her in my headphones. I'm listening. I love, I've just started watching Mr. Thane and he's really funny. I loved his little what students say video that he just posted. That was really funny. I love the Instagrammer. I don't know if she has a YouTube channel but teaching and so forth, I absolutely adore her. If she hadn't done it, I would have done it at some time but she has all these songs that she has created to help her students learn and I use all of them. So thank you. Bethany Humphrey, I absolutely love her. Teaching and so forth, yeah. She's just super inspiring and like I said, I think that I'm a lot like her so I love to follow her on Instagram and I think that those are my favorites. So I can think of right now. My head's kind of blank. What is one of your best classroom management tips? Be consistent. I need to follow this tip myself and I think a lot of us need to follow this tip but just be consistent. Once you come up with those expectations and the children understand them, if they don't meet the expectation, let them know. Don't let things slide because that's how things get out of control. That's how things get messed up. So just be consistent. Pick something, try it. If it doesn't work, try something else but as you're trying it, be consistent and stick to it while you're doing it and don't let them not do it for a second because as soon as you let them do what you don't want them to do, they're gonna continue to do it. So be consistent. What is one reason you decided to become a teacher? I think the main reason that I decided to become a teacher is because I love children. I have a huge passion for watching them grow, watching them learn, becoming kind, wonderful people and I think that deep down, I'm a huge child myself so I think that I just connect with them on a different level and I just love being that person that they need. There's a lot of kids in our schools these days that have no families, that have parents that are always gone, that have parents that are abusive, whether it's with them or abusive to themselves and these children just need somebody to love them and that's one of the reasons why I love teaching because I'm that person. I get to love these children. I get to be who they need every day and I think that that's one of the most rewarding parts of teaching is, you know, I don't say, you know, well, they're just my students. Like these are my kids. I love them and I would do anything for them so I think that that's one of the reasons why I love teaching so much. All right, yes, that is the last question. So thank you again, Megan, so much for creating the I teach to teacher tag. I'm really, really excited. I'm glad I did it and I love all your questions and if you haven't already done this tag, tag your it. Go on, get your camera, get your computer, get the questions, I'll put them down below and I can't wait to see yours. Bye guys.