There is not an exact formula to learning to roll with the punches per say, but being a diverse person I am able to push through and overcome problems as they arise. As a coach and teacher I learned very fast that life isn’t always going to serve up the perfect pitch, in fact sometimes that pitch will be a curveball. In today’s society technology is that curve ball. While it is a great asset to use to teach and learn, it’s also a crutch we rely on in everyday life. I am diverse enough to overcome situation in which technology is not available without missing a beat and my students will develop the same ability to use technology when it is available but also not hesitate to move forward when it isn’t available. Once we were training in Texas getting ready for a deployment and they had us set up on a huge mineral deposit, and those minerals for whatever reason disrupted our communication equipment. I quickly realized something wasn’t right so instead of panicking like some others I simply pulled out my cell phone and started calling missions down range. This ability to think quick and overcome a situation in which technology fails is one of my best qualities. This is not quality that you are born with but rather that I will push my students and myself to develop and improve through our future successes and …show more content…
I have the innate ability to take assessments and use them as a tool to not only focus on what I accomplished but then to collaborate with my fellow teachers and share my findings with them. Teaching is possibly the biggest team sport of all, and being a coach has taught me failure to recognize collaboration as one of our biggest tools is detrimental to success. I am constantly learning new and fun ways to teach students in such a way that they often forget they are learning. I also recognize that some of the ways and approaches I use often get incorporated by my fellow