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__**About Me: **__ My name is Brian Leoncini and I am a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver. I am thirty years old and recently married. I am a huge cyclist, but love all sports. I have a black lab/shar pei mix named Bucket and a cat named Franklin. I grew up in Connecticut, constantly hearing my mother tell me that I would make a great teacher. After visiting friends, I found myself at Colorado State University where I majored in Health and Exercise Science. After many years of working in the health and fitness industry, I decided to take my mother’s advice, make a career change, and go back to school to become an elementary school teacher.

The jobs I held were extremely rewarding, but I knew that they were not my passion. I touched many lives and helped many people in cardiac rehabilitation. I’ve trained many people for different races and sporting events, as well as helped one client in particular get ready to serve our country. I want to touch the lives of my students as much as I’ve touched the lives of past clients that I have worked with. Becoming an elementary school teacher would allow me to act as a role model for the students in my classroom. Everyone has a teacher they can look back on who made an impact in their lives, or the lives of their children. I am pursuing my elementary school teaching license to be that teacher.

media type="custom" key="8269274" I love to use this tool because I have a passion for exercising and I use it a great deal to map out different cycling and running routes.

My classroom will be “A well oiled machine.” Like a football team, my students will be the team and I will be their coach. My students will know what is expected of them. I will be able to complete all the lessons I have planned for each day. At the end of each day we will have all achieved our goals. I will have taught them and they will have learned. I firmly believe that students want to learn. I think that they do not show this all the time, but they can make sense out of what they learn by making the information their own. I strongly believe in Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. I believe that students learn in many different ways. I want to be able to create my lessons around this fact, that student’s have many different learning styles. I believe that external pressures, rewards and grades are huge motivators for students, but I do not think this a way for them to learn. I think a motivator such as filling a jar of marbles is a great idea for them, but can only go so far. I want to be an assertive teacher and I will need to set boundaries and limitations for my students based on the rules we make on the first day of school. I will need to model these rules to show the students that everyone must follow them, including myself. I want to take and show a general interest in my student’s life, and not make it seem that I do not want to be around them.
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 I plan to try to integrate technology as much as I can into my student's learning. I will try to take all of the web 2.0 tools we have learned about and integrate each one specifically into different lesson plans. I am extremely excited to teach my students about these tools and maybe learn something from them in the process. I believe with teaching the 21st century learner this integration is crucial to their schooling. I know that every lesson can not have a technology integration, but wherever they can fit in, I will try to make it happen.

media type="custom" key="8349312" I use this tool to keep up with all of my favorite teams. I do not have cable so this tool allows me to watch for the scores of different games I missed.