Introductory Letter - NETS I

Hello my name is KerriAnn Clark, I am 23 years old, born and raised in Poway, CA and this is currently my second semester at Cal State San Marcos. From kindergarten to twelfth grade I attended Tierra Bonita Elementary School, Twin Peaks Middle School and Poway High School all of which are located in the Poway Unified School District in Poway, CA. I graduated high school in 2005 and went on to attend at California State University Long Beach. I went into Long Beach State wanting to major in Marine Biology but quickly changed when I found out how many chemistry classes you needed to take. I was then going for my social work degree until I attend some of the social work classes and realized that social work wasn’t going to be the path for me. After spending two and a half years at Long Beach State I decided to change my major once again and moved back home to make it easier on my mother financially. I then went to Palomar for another year and a half to take the classes that I needed for my liberal studies degree. In fall 2009, I transferred to Cal State University San Marcos and entered the Integrated Credential Program and to finish off my liberal studies degree.

My own personal experience with technology hasn’t exactly been the best or the easiest experience that I have encountered. In my first 3 years of attending college, I crashed two PC by downloading programs that either took too much memory for my computer or by downloading programs that had viruses that attacked and crashed my computer. After crashing two PC, I then bought my Mac 2 years ago and haven’t had any problems yet. Every since I bought my Macintosh, I have been so happy with how it has worked for me and I realized that I would most likely never go back to a PC again. I definitely depend on technology on a daily basis between my cell phone and my computer. I truly don’t know what I would do without either on a regular basis. Currently I am using the 2008 Microsoft Office version for the Macintosh computer. It was a little difficult for me to learn this new version of Microsoft Office but once I understood the tabs and where to find items, it is now easy for me to understand. When I use the school PC computers at CSUSM, I find it difficult at times to understand that version of Microsoft office because I am so used to the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office now.

Personally the entire mission statement speaks to me. As a future teacher or educator, I need to be fully taught everything that I need to know before I enter that classroom. There have been so many teachers that did not know the material thorough enough or didn’t know how to teach the material that we as students needed to learn. Therefore we need to make sure that students are taught to where they obtain knowledge and can retain and understand the information they need to survive in this world. We as teachers need to make sure that we do not judge others by their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, etc and we need to make sure that EVERYONE gets a quality education that enters our classroom. As a teacher if you are not learning all the time and expanding on what you already know than you are not going to be a quality educator. We need to transform public education to better our students and the world in which we live in. The mission statement was necessarily not a reason as to why I applied to CSUSM. I didn't even know what the mission statement was until after I was accepted and in the education classes. I applied to San Marcos because it was close to home and had a really good education program.