Podcast

media type="file" key="Podcasting 1.mp3" align="center" Hi. My name is Sara Regina Asher. I was born on November 16th, 1976. I have two beautiful sisters Jenna and Cassie who I cherish very much and talk to as often as possible! I am also blessed to have wonderful parents who have always supported me, loved me to the fullest and have encouraged me to move forward in life no matter what mountains may stand in the way.

I have one 8 year old child who is the treasure of my life named Kenda. She is so smart, so beautiful and one of the most kind hearted souls I have ever met. To round out my family are my two dogs, Nikita a 6 year old husky and Loki a 2 year old golden retriever mix. My daughter I suppose would want me to add in her pet which is a parakeet named Tigger.

Since the ripe old age of 15 years I have worked in one form of child care or another. First at Pooh Corner a small center, then moving to Children’s World, I was a nanny for two little girls for two years and went back to a center called ABC Teachings. My last and most prized center was the Early Childhood Center in Longmont where I had a great team of teachers, a wonderful array or resources, and the best mentor our director that anyone could ask for. She really instilled into me the lesson that there are no bad children, there are only bad behaviors. And bad behaviors can if wanted to be changed, can be changed. I worked their until the day my daughter was born December 2, 2002.

When I became a mother it was important for both my now ex husband and me to stay home with her to teach her our values and beliefs, and to raise her in a loving caring home. It was when she turned 5 and began to go to school that I knew it was time for me to find something new to do with my life. The bug for teaching had never left me, but I no longer wanted to teach preschool. As much as I loved that age group with all their I love you Ms Sara’s, and the expressions on their faces when they learned to do something new for the first time. I had done that for so many years, it was time for a change. Since I was a small child my desire to teach secondary education has alway been strong.

I am currently enrolled at Metro State in Denver CO, where I am majoring in Behavioral Sciences (a fancy term for Social Studies) and have a minor in secondary education. If all goes well I will be student teaching Spring of 2012 which I am very very excited about. Teaching is a passion of mine, and I am so close to my goal now I get more excited by the day.

Teaching for me means the ability to change someones life, to turn around that student who has always been considered the bad one, and make them a good one. I have the idea that I can make a difference in the lives of the children I teach and that when they leave my classroom not only are they going to remember the material I taught to them, but they are going to remember me. I will be a mentor to my students, I will give them the wind they need to lift them as high as they can go. I will take time out to listen to them not only about school, but about things that may be going on in their own personal lives. I am not going into this field just to be a body in a room to deliver history facts over and over until their eyes and ears are bleeding. I am going into this field because I have a desire, a gift to read, understand, and made a difference in their lives.

Not everyone is suited for the field of teaching, just like not everyone is suited for the field of being a doctor or lawyer. We are a profession who deeply cares for what we do, for the students in our care, and for the knowledge that we pass on to them. Every single student that walks into my room, walks into my heart and each one of them will be treated as my own child while in my care. I know teaching is going to have its difficult days just like any other career, but in my profession, the one I have choosen as my life long dream, there will be the days again when a students understands the material for the first time and the look in their eyes when that happens is more meaningful to me than any amount of money in this world.