 Okay, hopefully this will work better. I'm just on my phone now, so I'm not gonna have Like a problem with my connection, hopefully sorry guys, I'm feel really bad Let's see Yeah, you can hear me. Okay if this cuts out, we'll try again. Hopefully I can get the whole thing filmed this time Okay, I Turned my Wi-Fi off. So hopefully this will Work We'll just wait for you guys to come back I'm just waiting for a couple of you guys to get back. I turned my Wi-Fi off. So now I'm just on data So hopefully that will help Hopefully fingers crossed Okay, sorry guys I Could go live on Instagram, but I I don't think I have as many people on there That would want to see plus I want this to go up on my YouTube channel. So I'm hoping this will work Looks like it is. Let me know you guys if it goes offline again, please And I'm just getting my app because I usually have them on my phone But I cannot get them on my phone cause I'm filming on my phone Let's get some cute fur children over here to pass the time Jack. He's like no, I'm taking an app Don't touch me Don't bother me mom Okay, and if you got are we still online? Are we still good? I'm so sorry Okay. Hi, we're almost there. We're getting there Jennifer might pop over She might just come right in right when I'm filming this. Did I just hit myself in the face? I sure did Okay Thank you guys for being so patient. I really appreciate it. Oh I love technology. Don't you this is what happens when you're in the classroom and stuff doesn't work. You just improvise Okay, here we go. Yeah. Hi. Here we go What's your favorite Disney princess Amber's world asks Ariel is my favorite Disney princess I love her who wouldn't want to be a mermaid Questions who are some of the other teachers you watch on YouTube? My favorites are Jennifer from genuine teaching. Obviously. She's my best friend Pocketful of primary. I love watching her. I love how she can make long like weekly vlogs I wish my computer would allow me to do that, but unfortunately it doesn't so that stinks I love watching mr. Thane too cool for middle school Real rap with Reynolds. I love teach like a girl. She's so funny how she like dances behind people I really want to do that and see I bet people would get so mad at me Ikea haul I'm gonna wait until I'm in my classroom Which I'm going to be going in on Monday because everything is still in the boxes And I think it would kind of be silly to do a haul with everything in the box So once I get in my classroom, I'll show you guys everything that I bought at Ikea What are some of the names you picked out for your baby? I'm not telling I'm not telling the baby's name We're planning on doing a photo shoot probably next week to reveal his name Um But I will make a video all about his name and everything so I'm really excited about that favorite thing about teaching I think is the relationships that I form with the kids. Absolutely love them. They turn into my little buddies Obviously after we get our expectations and procedures in place, but I just love them. They're like they're all my kids, you know How many years have you been teaching? I've been teaching for I Think it's technically only three, but I this is gonna be my third my fourth classroom. So it will I guess yeah three years Best and worst experiences you've had in your teaching career I really think that administration can make or break your experience and the kiddos depending on the behavior of the kiddos, but I really do think that administration can Play a major role in your experience in your experience. I have experienced Some really unsupportive administration. I've experienced some really supportive administration. So I think that just different experiences with that is You know kind of changes everything if I ever get the chance. Well, I teach high school students I thought about going back once my son is older and Getting my masters in secondary ed and just getting that credential so that I could teach high school I think that I'm still too young to teach high school I feel like I just wouldn't be as effective and I would rather be older if that makes sense I don't know if that makes sense My baby is due November 8th. So right in the middle of the school year. It should be interesting Do you ever consider switching careers in the future? Um, I have I have like asked myself what else would you do? But nothing has ever come to my mind. So I think teaching is kind of it If I didn't teach I would want to do something that involved children anyway. So like daycare, maybe preschool Kids camps things like that. I just love being around kids. So I think that that would be The other venue that I would go in that direction. I don't I don't really think switching careers within for me though What made it motivates you during a more challenging day of teaching? Just knowing that Every day is different, you know, I might have a really bad day one day and then the next day will be really great Each day is different. So if you have a hard day, you just kind of have to focus on the positives in your life and move forward and focus on the really, you know, great aspects of the day and just try to move on from that Inclusion strategies With engagement, I try to use a lot of Kagan strategies in my classroom They are really engaging. They get the kids working together. They get them talking If you haven't heard of Kagan strategies, definitely definitely research those Amina Hello, Amina But and I plan on doing a couple of videos about Kagan strategies in a classroom When I'm back in my classroom and actually use some students to model those So hopefully I can get some parents on board and get those modeled for you guys What are your thoughts of men in elementary education from Gabe He's a sophomore in high school and he's considering it I think that it's really important to have men in elementary education There are so many kids out there that have no Father figures in their lives and having men in education is so important because it gives those kiddos A person to connect with and plus there's too many chicks running around, you know, too many hormones We need some guys. We need some dudes to come in all of my like my favorite teachers growing up were all men and They were just fun. They just connected in a different way I mean the women were more nurturing, but the men just had so much fun with us, you know Considering moving to Phoenix, can you give me a top five pros and cons list about the area? I lived in Phoenix for about five years pros lots of shopping lots of restaurants Cons lots of traffic really hot too many people really hot And You don't really want to go out and do anything because it's way too hot I would definitely say don't move to Phoenix if you're gonna move to Arizona try the northern area We don't make as much money up here But the weather is way better or just move to a different state altogether If I didn't have my family here in Arizona my husband and I we would be in some other state I don't know where somewhere cool somewhere that pays better and Yeah, just Phoenix Go somewhere else. Go somewhere better. I Would love to come to England. Oh my gosh If I could afford it, I would be in England and Canada I would go to Canada and England in a heartbeat if I could afford it But I've only ever traveled to like Mexico and like the tropical areas Okay, here's a couple of questions from Vanessa blades that I didn't get to you How did you choose? Oh, I already did that one. My favorite place is to shop for teacher clothes. This is a great question I love going to Target. Old Navy has great clothes. Coles has great clothes I like to get a lot of graphic tees and And Like colored jeans because I don't wear jeans to work, but I can wear colored jeans to work, which is kind of weird Have I ever considered switching grade levels I would actually love to switch grade levels and do third grade because I student taught in third grade But I actually feel like I'm more effective if I stay in the same grade So I'm planning to stay in fourth grade as long as possible until my administrator needs me somewhere else Because the longer you teach one grade the better you get at teaching it. So A couple of you guys are asking you must be new to the chat. I'm not telling anybody the name of my baby yet We're planning on announcing that in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully here on YouTube. So keep your eyes peeled for that Let's see is there anything you feel that student teaching did not prepare you for as a first-year teacher I definitely wouldn't say that student teaching didn't prepare me for but college itself Like all the classes I took I didn't really feel prepared until after I was a student teacher So I think once you get into your practicum and your student teaching experience. You will definitely feel more prepared and more comfortable How do you create a healthy balance between school and personal life? Don't bring work home with you. Do it at work stay an extra hour go in an hour early Don't bring your work home. Just leave it there and And you'll be fine Okay, let's see. I'm gonna come over here to these questions How are you going to man a good questionnaire and how are you gonna manage a classroom and take care of a baby? Well, the good news is that my husband is home three days a week He comes home Mondays at 6 p.m. He's home Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. He leaves Thursday evening So he will be home to take care of the baby during the week And then my mom and dad live only 20 minutes away So they have offered to watch the baby while I'm in school While I'm working in school on Mondays and Fridays when my husband's not home. So it's gonna be I'm very blessed. I have to thank the big guns upstairs because I'm very blessed to be in this situation that I'm in And if it wasn't for this situation, I probably wouldn't have rushed will not rushed I probably wouldn't have wanted to try to have a baby You know because it would have been a lot harder. He's coming in November Haley Does your district make you have three months of lessons activities and assessments planned before you go maternity leave? I'm not sure yet. I don't think so I have to talk to my administrator and some other people about maternity leave Because I haven't really gotten a lot of information about it So once I have that information, I will let you guys know in a video all about maternity leave and how I'm handling that When did you realize you wanted to be a teacher I always kind of knew I wanted to be a teacher I started my college career as a Theater arts major so a musical theater acting singing dancing and I realized that I didn't want to wait tables my whole life But that as a teacher I could perform all the time So I really like to think of teaching as an art where you get to perform all the time. So What are you most excited about for being a mother I think just having that relationship with him I love having the bond between me and my husband and I think that having a new bond with this little person That's made from both of us is just gonna be so amazing and I like dream about just talking with him and Interacting with him and getting him to experience all those new things. Oh, are you still princessing miss your videos? I watch them every time I have a princess event So a lot of you guys might not know this but I do own a princess company that entertains children I used to dress up as princesses and I don't personally do parties anymore I do still own the company and I just manage my staff Obviously, I have a big belly now. So I can't do princess parties and I did them for seven years So I'm kind of like retired and I'm just the queen now Um So I probably won't be doing any more princess videos. I might put a singing video up here or there But hi Gabrielle. Is it Gabriel or Gabrielle? It's probably Gabriel and I just messed that up. I'm so sorry. Hello Let's see Who is your most influential teacher you've ever had and why I feel like I've Answered this one before but my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Tripp. She was absolutely amazing. Hi, Amaya She I try to be like her She was also always so fun and bright and cheerful in school and would play music and let us do readers theater and So many amazing things and I just I hope that I can be like her someday Um, how many kids do I have I'm planning just two I would love to have a girl after this and if I don't have a girl that's okay I'll be the the lady of the house and And that'll be fine, but just two I don't want to have more than two. They feel like Two is good for me How do you prevent your voice from getting sore During singing I drink a lot of tea and for teaching because you can actually Get a sore throat from teaching and raspy. Actually, my voice tends to go out like the first week of school Because you're back to talking all day, but I just drink a lot of tea Lemon and honey water in the morning and it should I'm teaching fourth grade next year again Let's see. Okay. I'm gonna come over here Advice to new young teachers Just stick to your management plan be consistent. Don't let the kids walk over you Don't worry about being perfect because you're not gonna be perfect for a while. I'm still not perfect I don't think there's any teacher that's perfect except for maybe my teacher across the way from my classroom. She's amazing I don't know how she does it Good organization tips just keep things in a specific place Have everything have a place and when you're done using it put it back in that place biggest struggle in teaching I would say Having too many students in the classroom. I have 36 and There's a lot of them I'm gonna put your name Aigley Aigley Sorry Treat the kids like puppies firm but kind absolutely There are ways to be firm in a nice way I Do plan on visiting my class when the baby's born I plan on coming in every Friday I don't plan on bringing him in every time I'll probably bring him in a couple times just to see everyone But I do plan on coming in on Fridays Just because I do want to keep my presence known and make sure the kids know that I'm not just disappearing Let's see I do have an email. It's apples and tiara's at gmail.com So you can email me I'm trying to find all your comments. They're coming in How did you come up with your YouTube name? Well, I'm a teacher and a princess and teachers love apples and princesses wear tiara's so that was kind of perfect Let's see Are you worried about the kids having to go from you to another teacher and then back to you? I am a little bit worried about that. I've been kind of Struggling with planning because I'm plan trying to plan for when the sub is there and I'm like I don't want the sub to teach That I want to teach that that's my favorite like it's hard giving things up But I think just staying Involved in the classroom and coming in a little bit will help All these questions about the baby I Created my YouTube channel actually a long time ago. I've been on YouTube for about eight nine years I first started my first channel a child stream entertainment For my company and it was just like a singing videos channel And it's actually still active and then I started this channel because I wanted to do Princess related videos and then I started putting up teaching videos and I absolutely love putting those up So I've just continued But yeah, I just it's a hobby. I just like giving my ideas and Helping people out I Did think about being a music teacher and I actually failed music theory In college so that went out the door But I would love to be a music teacher Disciplining students it depends on the the crime. I like to have the consequence match the crime I Don't send kids to the office because I feel like that just takes my authority away and I I actually make them call their parents. I don't call their parents unless I need to But I'll have them stay in for lunch and they'll make a phone call and talk to their parents about what they've done It's a little more effective because they're like, oh, I have to talk to them and tell them what I did It's a little more scary I don't know who my sub will be I am going to do a classroom tour as soon as I get it done My hair is long today because I'm wearing hair extensions proud of it I'm gonna take a belly picture after this so I got all done up I'm not gonna be doing any more princess videos, sorry Not unless You know, I'm pregnant so I can't really wear any costumes The actress from young and hungry. Oh, that's funny. Everyone says I look like Jamie Lynn Spears, but I don't see that What do you do in a lesson goes wrong? Well, there's different things you can do you can stop what you're doing and do something else you can finish What you're doing? You can stop and apologize and fix the problem Lessons go wrong all the time. You just have to be flexible. You have to have a backup plan and Just be ready for that. I mean they go wrong all the time You know unless you've done the lesson like 500 times, which none of us have done No lessons gonna be perfect and that's what's amazing about teaching is that we keep learning as we go Aside from YouTube what other hobbies do you have I love to sing I love to go kayaking I like working out. I haven't worked out in a while because I've been tired But I used to love working out. I love shopping, which is kind of a bad hobby to have Yeah singing mostly Favorite part of the school day I Really like the part of the day when the kids are working Together on a project or an assignment and they're getting along and they're doing the assignment together and not fighting about About doing the assignment That's my favorite part of the day teaching is really fun How do you handle kids that don't learn as fast as others I do a lot of small group instruction and a lot of Collaborative learning so I like to group kiddos that maybe aren't understanding a concept with kiddos that are So that they can learn from each other Do you call the students that don't have their hand up sorry about yeah, I actually do Because a lot of times kids that maybe aren't understanding or think they aren't understanding something aren't gonna raise their hands So I pull sticks If I don't have a lot of things like Participation I'll pull sticks and if they really struggle I'll have them phone a friend and ask somebody else But I really don't call on hands all the time I usually just call people out like if I notice they're not paying attention I'll ask them a simple question and say okay. I'm gonna come back to you So make sure that you're you know Focused because I am gonna come back to you and ask you another question a very similar question So that kind of helps them to get on Why didn't I go with Jennifer to the tbt gathering? I didn't go because Jennifer got invited by a friend of hers from Phoenix who actually ended up taking her along with her and I didn't go because they plan on going to Disneyland and because I'm pregnant I can't go on any of the rides at Disneyland So I thought it would be kind of a waste of money To buy tickets to Disney and then just go there and eat and walk around and tired So I just decided to stay home and it was fine I I got to FaceTime with Jennifer when she was at her meet-up and everything So she was really great to include me and I'm excited to go next year. So Yeah, that's why I didn't go I just didn't feel like it was worth the money to not really be able to participate in everything so Um Okay, I'm gonna jump back to these questions just so that I make sure I get as many as I can K plus Lee says that she's very nervous about becoming a teacher and feels feels unprepared I would just say Once you find out what grades you're gonna teach get a hold of those standards Really try to understand what they are reach out to other teachers reach out to your team reach out to your Administrators and your coaches because they really do know these standards really well and they're going to be able to help you a lot Feeling unprepared Man, I think we all had that feeling just get yourself in there have a plan for the first couple of days Feel it out get those procedures in place and I promise you once those procedures are in place The learning will come I promise you Let's see the counselor at our school so Meredith Marshall says she's debating becoming an elementary school teacher or school counselor Do you have any insight into what the counselor does day-to-day? Do you ever interact with her? Do they come do classroom lessons on bullying? Thanks. Um, I Actually did have some good insight on my school counselor last year. My dear friend Alicia was our school counselor last year She was actually interning and She was a busy little bee. She took on all of the kiddos that had That were being referred to special ed that had behavior Issues, so they're very busy She did have to go and get her masters to be able to do that So as a teacher, you'll need a bachelor's but as a counselor or school psychologist You do need to have a master's degree So in psych school psychology She didn't really have time to do any classroom lessons She did have a group that she would pull kids into that were having a hard time in the classroom So that was nice But she was very busy Um, it's your fun all cool says what's your favorite food? I love Chipotle My husband is a law enforcement officer My favorite part of being a teacher. I think I've answered this one. I'm just interacting with the kiddos and having those relationships My dream vacation is Disney World Definitely Do you get along with the other teachers? I love the people that I work with they are amazing people. I I'm I try to be a really positive person at work and Try to stay away from like gossip and negativity while I'm there. So if anyone does have, you know a problem I try to stay out of it and not listen to the negativity and I think that it's a really good idea Don't get caught up in gossip because being a teacher is just like being back in high school people are gonna talk about each other They're gonna talk negatively and it's up to you to decide if you're gonna be that way Sorry, I just burped I do read aloud to my students. I actually love doing read alouds. I read the entire book holes to them I mean they followed along But I read the whole book and they insisted that I read the book because I did the voices and they loved that I just got an email for my YouTube channel apples and tiaras at gmail.com so hopefully I can keep up To date with that. I probably won't answer those every single day just because it is you know gonna get busy But I will do my best to To answer emails if you guys email me Um authoritative teacher I would say that if you Ways to become an authoritative teacher is if you make a relationship with a student and they do something that you don't want them to do You still need to get on their butts about it. I had a kiddo last year who was amazing. She was the most Brilliant sweet kind person and she would constantly interrupt me during my lessons. She would get up She would like erase the board if I didn't want her to like she would just she was trying to be helpful But it was just more like she was controlling what was going on And so I had to take her off to the side and say look it's really disrespectful that you are interrupting me that you are doing this that and the other and she stopped and It's not me being mean. It's just she's a kid. I'm the teacher I do love you, but I need you to stop doing this because it's making it really hard for me to do my job And so she respected me for that. I I tried to never call kids out in front of the whole group I try to take them off to the side talk to them have a conversation because that's embarrassing I mean at least that if they're drawing attention to themselves and they've already got the attention of the class There's ways for me to call them out in a nice way rather than be mean about it So I try to do that A con of teaching I have a whole pros and cons video if you want to go watch that on my channel I would just say building relationships with difficult colleagues find something interesting to talk about with them that you have in common and Just say hi to everybody in the hallway. Don't just walk by, you know Just give a wave give a smile a smile can go a long way I'm reading the book wander right now. Actually, it's I'm planning on doing a literature study with it next year So I'm reading it right now Seating arrangements. I do flexible seating. So once they break my trust with flexible seating, then I assign them a spot Okay, I'm gonna scroll all the way to the top because I think I'm missing a couple Most of these have been answered. I'm so excited that so many of you are here watching me live. This is so exciting And I have my contacts in so I'm like trying to read these Sorry, I'm like super quiet. I'm trying to like read intently. I Don't use an Erin Condren lesson planner I use the life planner because I use planbook.com to plan my lessons Um, so I just use the life planner to plan like to like write when I have meetings and things like that in there Um, I do use class dojo. I have a video on my channel about how I use it Middle schoolers who want to be teachers, I would just say get yourself involved in a classroom Definitely Find ways to be Um Involved in schools Tell us about you. What about me? I do guided reading. Um, I Uh, I would like to do lit circles this year and I have done them in the past Just not with different books like we've done lit circles about chapters that we've read together Passages we've read together I don't really think that I would want to do Readings literature circles where all the different groups are reading different books Because I think that it's better that we all focus on one book at a time I think that would be better for higher level. Um, like sixth grade students Um, but the books that I choose the kids always love them. I always do because of when Dixie Um, I do Shiloh. I do holes. I'm planning to do hoot wander um This year and then there's a couple other ones that I've heard of danger in the desert is amazing for arizona because it sets there. Um Yeah, so Pregnancy is going great. Honestly, if I didn't have a belly, I wouldn't really know that I'm Um pregnant Um I'm from arizona in the united states If I could have a superpower If I could have a superpower It would be to Not gain weight Like I would love to be able to just eat whatever I want And not gain any weight And have a perfect body like a super gem or be able to work out and not feel tired That would be amazing. That would be super amazing Like a super mega body person I know I'm not fat by any means but We all have our Little things that we don't like and I would just like to be able to eat what I freaking want Freak the mighty Uh, let's see I do have a name, but I'm not gonna do it yet. Um If you guys are gonna be disrespectful in the comments go ahead and Get on out so par doll too. You can go ahead and leave I'm not gonna be Talk to you that way. Please get out Guys, just ignore the rude comments um All right, so I'm going on 35 minutes So I think I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up I'm really really super glad that you guys were all here. This just made my whole day And I hope that these questions that I answered today were helpful And if you guys have any other questions, please do not hesitate to add them in the comments below On this video because I am going to publish this video Um onto my channel so that others who weren't here today can watch it Um, so if you do have other questions, please Please don't hesitate to comment and ask and I will do my best to get to them Um, do you want to come say hi? over here Alice wanted to come and say hello Say hello, Alice She's like, what's going on? I just want to Look your face Make you better Huh, where'd you brother? These guys come into my classroom a lot too for um, whoa, um behavior incentives when we do um When they've earned enough points as a class we have dogs come in Do you want to say hi to jack? No, I'm gonna take a nap All right guys, so I'm gonna hit the road. Thank you so much for tuning in I really really appreciate all the love and I will see you guys in the next video And maybe I'll go live again. This was fun This was fun. All right guys. Love you. Bye