Biography

__Samantha Nicole Mocilnikar__ Welcome to my Wiki :) My name is **Sam** and this is me...

I enjoy working out, watching movies, reading, and i also love to cook because who does not LOVE food?! Traveling is one other thing that is amazing and I can't wait to travel the world someday. My favorite color is orange. I'm all about the sunshine and good times with friends and family! Another thing that i love are horses and cheer leading/gymnastics. I always had these things growing up and I'm so happy that i did, it shaped me as the hard worker that I am today as well as earning what i have. Playing sports going up helped me to become more well rounded in the aspect that i always had to be on time for practice, there was always some type of discipline if necessary, and it gave me that chance to get out there and be more outgoing and to make friends. I'm a people person and would much rather be with a group of people or someone rather than by myself. Other things that i enjoy are helping friends and family out. This is very important to me because my family has not always been close until one of my close relatives passed away. This opened my eyes and made me realize that what happened is reality and nothing is here forever, not even close loved one. With this happening it made me want to be a lot closer with my family and really get to know them better and try and get everyone to want to be around each other because there is nothing worse than not having family or friends to talk to. I'm pretty outgoing, at least I'd like to think I am. I try to be the best that I can be no matter what I do. I am in education because growing up I would tutor kids in my same class and there would be a little group and it was like I was the teacher and I loved it. I got to help everyone in my class receive better grades and I felt like I impacted their lives and that is one of my main goals as a teacher is to make some sort of impact in the childrens' lives. I had never thought about going into education all throughout high school. I actually wanted to be a mortition, until one day my mom sat me aside because i needed to figure out what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. This was great because it helped me get back on track and do something that really suits me and that I am good at.  = Philosophy of Education   =   The primary focus of a professional educator must be on the future of his students. To become the best demands being fundamentally sound as a decision maker with constant regard for knowledge, technology, diversity, and ethics as each relates to outreach, research and inquiry, and standard-setting programs. **__Knowledge__** is the first core element to becoming an educator.  An understanding of the specific subject being taught is only the beginning to teaching. Of equal importance, is quickly evaluating the student’s ability to absorb and retain information and then being able to present the subject in a manner easily within the student’s comprehension. This will make it so that each student, with their own abilities and ways to learn, will be able to do so with the knowledge of an educator.  An educator must also remain focused on the intended goal. The key to doing so is through skillful preparation and organization. The educator needs to have the knowledge of what needs to be taught and the ways that the subject can be taught. This is so that the student has the ability to learn and absorb the subject and retain the information for later evaluation. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**__Technology__** is the second necessary core element. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The reality is that computer use has quickly become an everyday way of life, be it in the business world, at home, as well as in the classroom. Most students at an early age have a very basic ability to use the computer, primarily for entertainment purposes. The natural progression is for its use as a teaching tool in their early educational development, establishing a solid foundation for skills needed in adulthood. Technology can be used in the classroom so that the students have the capability of advancing with their technological skills, keeping up with the way our society advances. The educator will be expected to participate in continues of training to teach ever-changing computer capabilities. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**__Diversity__** is the third core element. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Schools across America have become increasingly diverse as the student population continues to rise. The educator needs to be cognizant of the student’s race, cultural background, and ethnic heritage to provide an equal opportunity for each student to learn to the best of his ability. This is very important because the student also needs to be aware of diversity and when the educator has awareness of how diverse America is becoming then the student will also learn from the educator how to deal with certain situations and how to treat their peers. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**__Ethics__** is the final core element to being a professional educator. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> By Noah Webster’s definition, ethics is “the study of the general nature of morals and the specific moral choices an individual makes in relating to others”. Knowledge of ethics will be needed in daily teachings. An educator must be able to resolve unfavorable classroom issues without singling out a specific minority ethnic group or a majority ethnic group. There will be occasions when he will also be called upon to make sound and reasonable decisions without discrimination. This is very important in the classroom because it ties back into talking about the equality of importance for each and every student. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Having constant regard for knowledge, technology, diversity and ethics as each relates to outreach, research and inquiry, and standard-setting programs should be the fundaments of a professional educator. The primary focus should be that of his students and their future. It is up to the professional educator to be the decision maker overall in his every day routine in the classroom so that his students learn to the best of their abilities.