About Miranda

What is your teaching style?

I would say my teaching style is loving, but sarcastic. I truly love and care for all of my students (I’ve become the emotional support teacher for several of my students), but I will not hesitate to use sarcasm with the students. I try to keep things fun and engaging for the students so that I don’t have to beg them to get off their phones during class. I’m also really upfront with the students, sometimes to a fault. This normally means that when they complain about doing work I respond with “I just need to keep my job childrens.”

How were you taught to teach?

I will be completing Orff Shulwerk Level III this summer and I am so excited! I use the Orff process to keep things musically satisfying for students even at the most basic levels of instruction. I work very hard to make sure that everything is sequenced well and that each step can be grown on to get to the larger concept or result.

I was also taught about using Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies and high yield instructional strategies from my employer. I haven’t gone to any specific trainings for Kagan, but I will be sharing a lot about Kagan on here because I know it can be difficult to implement effectively in a performance based classroom.

What’s your angle?

I am blessed to be in a school district where electives teachers are treated the same as and held to the same standard as the core content teachers. However, I know how much I struggled to implement all the things that my school district wanted me to add to my instruction. And then all of a sudden I had to grade the stuff too?!?

I was basically drowning my first two years of teaching, but I have finally started to figure out how to implement all these things in my instruction that my admin team wanted to see, so I’m here to help you too. Because I don’t want anyone else to feel like they’re drowning all the time.