Blog Post #1

<b>About Me</b><br/>
Hi, I'm Erica Tripp and I was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, and I still live with my mom, my dad has remarried, and I have two older sisters who live in Georgia. My major is Physical education, and after graduating from college I plan to become a softball coach, preferably on the high school or college level. I've been athletic majority of my life and I still am today, outside of school. On the other hand, I'm an umpire for AHSAA in fastpitch softball, volleyball, and track. I love being competitive, getting dirty, working out, coaching, and teaching others the game of softball. In fact, I wish I still had eligibility left in college.
This is my second semester at USA but I am classified as a junior because I transfered here from another school. From 2006-07 I attended Bishop State Community College, on a athletic scholarship but after our softball program vanished because of financial fraud with the faculty and staff I was forced to leave. And from the fall of 2007-09 I attended Alabama State University College. While there, I continued my career as a sotfball player but I was only given a partial scholarship and I had to live in a dorm. I counldn't take anymore of that school after the fall of 2009. I hated the softball program, hated the dorms becaused I felt like I was in prison, I was broke all the time and far enough from home, but I loved my job as a summer counselor and my grades were pretty good, for me to undergo so much stress. Now I'm here and I plan to graduate from here in the Spring of 2014!

As a P.E. teacher/coach I figure that I will have to teach a Health class as well. So I will have to teach my students about injuries: preventing them, seeking proper care, overuse injuries, dos/don't, nutritition: essential nutirents, and nonessential, what's healthy for the body, sex: safe sex, abstinence, sti's, relationships: trust, committment, abuse, neglect, and friendships: loyal, and self-efficacy. The tools that I'll need our health lecture books, tv, dvd, and paper when we have tests and/or quizzes. They will learn by the materials that are needed and my lectures. I will make a power point of each chapter and we will discuss them in class. One project will be given at the end.
For basketball, softball, flag football, volleyball, kick ball and swimming all my students are required to participate unless they have a written note from a physican or the principal only. We will dress out daily in our t-shirt and gym shorts with the school logo emprinted on them. The uniforms must be purchased and worn everyday in order to pass my class. No execeptions! Some days we will be inside and others outside depending upon the weather. No more than 4 unexcused absences are tolerated. The tools needed for the sports will be a basketbal, football, kick ball, softball, and a swimming pool, and swimming clothes.
For square dancing, dressing out will be optional but dancing is mandatory. Partners will be selected by myself; everyday it will be a different person. You are required to communicate with your partner while dancing. Square dancing is worth half of your grade. The tools we will need is just the music. I will provide it.
At the end of the course we will have an exam, on everything that we did in this course. Each student will be required to list each sport that we did, the requirements, dos/don't of that sport, and how they benfited from them. For sqaure dancing, just list the techniques. This will be worth 25% of their grade. I expect my students to learn how to be physically active for life, be confident, motivated, competitive, and most importantly have fun!

<b>Randy Paush</b><br/>
Dr. Paush video discussed money, goals, time, bosses, stress, and procrastinating. All of which are very important to me, some I need help with. Stress, money, and procrastinating are my toughest to deal with. He talked about us as Americans being good with our money but bad with time management. We waist a lot of time. I can relate. We learn a lot when things go bad.
With goals, he said that we often as the question why. But we have to think about planning and making them priorities. He said plan at levels. Plan each day, each week, and each month. It's important to have a to do list as well. Break down things and do the uglyiest thing first. We must have experience. We can't fake the experience either.