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Music (PK-8th) and 5th-7th Religion Teachernsipestannnash.orgEducation
- B.M in Instrumental Music Education from MTSU (2015)
- Orff Level I Certified from Belmont University (2016)
Experience
This is my 7th year teaching music, and my first year teaching religion. I taught elementary music at Stewartsboro Elementary School in Smyrna, TN for six years before joining the team at Saint Ann School. I helped teach the marching band at Franklin High School for four years. For my final year, I was the percussion director. In the summer of 2021, I taught 1st grade math at the Rutherford County summer school program.
The Basics of My Classroom
When teaching music, my fundamental goal in working with your students will be to cultivate a love of music to last them for their entire life. Not all of us will become famous musicians, but we can all learn more about music to appreciate and enjoy it on a deeper level.
In music classes this year, students will sing songs, play instruments (drums, xylophones, ukuleles, bucket drums, hand bells, recorders, and more), dance, compose, and learn to talk about musical concepts and how they connect to culture and emotional expression.
When teaching religion, my primary goal will be to pass on the truths of Catholic faith to your students in a way that shows their beauty. We will learn to live out these truths in our daily lives, and will cultivate a routine of prayer in a variety of different ways. I am excited to get to use the Hallow app with your students this year to show them all kinds of prayer!
Above all else in religion classes, I hope to show students that the Lord, our God loved us first, before we ever knew him. God sees all of us individually, uniquely, as gifts. The walk, then, of the Christian is not just to say “I love you God,” but to say, “God, I love you too.”1 John 4:19 — “We love because He first loved us.”
