As you walk though the door, you are immediately transported from the stalk cold hallway to a warm, inviting, and nurturing home for our learning to live. Although somewhat cluttered, our classroom is a vibrant living document of our critical thinking, challenge based learning, and technologically savvy student outcomes. We strive daily to make learning not only fun, but relevant to our lives. It is through authentic learning that students grasp concepts for a lifetime rather than a class period. I am Miss Czerney, this has become my name and title. That is who I am. I have now completed my second year of teaching at a small rural school in NC with a group of rowdy 4th graders who are eager to learn, but slow to work at it. It has been my dream to teach since I was a little girl assigning worksheets and teaching lessons in my basement to dolls and teddy bears (who were much better behaved). I now have real students who truly rely on me on a daily basis and look for that consistency in my classroom. I only hope I don't let them down.
Now I have embarked on a new journey, one in which I am homeless. I do not have one stationary classroom as our learning knows no walls. At Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering, I am able to serve Kindergarteners to 5th Graders and all those between. I provide authentic learning experiences for students involving STEM education and technology integration. Through Professional Development, teachers are able to learn from me a variety of skills and tools to implement in their classrooms. I may not have a stationary classroom, but no true learning is stationary either. As lifelong learners, investigation, exploration, and creativity should be happening wherever we go, despite the environment we are in. My students use the engineering design process to ask, imagine, plan, create, and improve; solving problems and creating solutions. We are engineers!