Tiyana Johnson

Education is an art of appreciating life. The purpose of education is to provide ample opportunities for every child to flourish and grow. Through all the things students are taught should help them develop confidence and to be happy and healthy in their everyday life. School should be a safe place for students to be creative, take risks, embrace and learn from failure. They should be able to have dreams and ambitions about who they want to be in the future. School gives students the chance to learn social skills and how to work in groups, it teaches honesty and hard work. Teachers are amazing because not only are they teaching academics, but they are also teaching about lifelong lessons that help build the foundations for the future of these students.  For Educators to be able to achieve this purpose, it is necessary for communities as a whole to come together. A marginalized student is one that feels left out or disregarded in their school community. Marginalized s...

 Introduction Blog Tiyana Johnson 1-18-22 About me: I am a junior at Texas State and I have an adorable, crazy kitten named Coconut. I really want to teach abroad and travel the world. I love to dance and swim at Canyon Lake.  Why Teach?: I was first a little interested in teaching when I was a kid because my Great Grandma and Grandpa were teachers. She would always talk about it, and tell me stories, and she had so much fun doing it. Then, when I became a freshman in high school, one day I just decided that teaching elementary students is what I wanted to do. During my junior and senior year of high school, we got the opportunity to shadow a teacher at an elementary school nearby. I choose to do it both years, I shadowed the best teachers and had amazing kids. The first year I shadowed third grade and my students begged me to move up with them and shadow fourth grade, so I did. It was an amazing experience, and I can't wait to teach my future students. Doing that, just m...