Congratulations to Liz Sesser, Spring 2008 Blogging for Progress Scholar.
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- Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
- Current school: Hamline University
- Academic Plans: Master of Arts in Teaching, and eventually, an MFA in creative writing
- Major: Elementary Education, though my Bachelor's Degree is in English
- Career goals: I'd like to teach wee tinys in an inner city school. I hope to be employed as a first grade teacher by spring 2009.
- Favorite Quote: I have two. The first is my ideal. I hope to someday live this quote. I'm trying. The second quote is a more realistic representation of my approach to life.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
--Henry David Thoreau
"What did you expect from gods
with animal heads?
Though come to think of it,
the ones made later, who were fully human,
were not such good news either."
--Margaret Atwood, from Sekhmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess of War, Violent Storms, Restilence, and Recovery from Illness, Contemplates the Desert (In the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Who inspires you to be a great person? My charges. I'm a nanny right now, and I want to be the role model they believe me to be. I try to lead the kind of life I expect them to lead. Children are a powerful motivator because they emulate us, whether we realize they are watching or not. If you approach your life as a model for the future of humanity, it places some pressure on you to do the right thing.
- What's your idea of Progress? My personal approach to progress is mind expansion. Broadening one's worldview is the first step to thinking creatively about solutions to the world's problems.
- What's your favorite thing about ProgressiveU? I love the opportunity ProU gives me to test my biases. I think the greatest challenge for any teacher is identifying their biases and overriding them to present the issues in a fair-minded way. Every idea I put out there during this contest challenged, which forced me to examine many perspectives and really understand why I believe what I believe.
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