User:Tketc003

Hi! My name is Taylor Ketcham. I play lacrosse for Old Dominion and absolutely love it. I am from Topsail Beach, NC where I grew up throughout highschool. I moved from West Chester, PA when I was in eighth grade. I started playing lacrosse when I was six years old and have dedicated tons of time and fun to the sport. My dad and I started the team in North Carolina when we moved down. It was a life changing experience to teach my team the sport and learn how to coach with my dad. Beyond lacrosse, I love to surf, listen to music, wakeboard, skurf, (anything having to do with the water) and I LOVE to read! I am an English Education major with a French minor. I want to teach French speaking students how to speak, read, write, and understand the beauty of the English language.

'''A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann'''

I find that there is always something that will inspire a human being to do wonderful things in life and explore a certain area of interest to its full extent. A teacher is one who presents their subject as an exciting learning possibility. We all strive to be a more intellectual person. A child's background could hinder that drive; however, it is always there. It is the teacher's job to allow that child to rekindle his or her thirst for knowledge. Granted, there are always kids who put up the infamous brick wall to the wonders of learning; the greatest accomplishment a teacher could have would be to break down even just one of those brick walls in the duration of a year, two years, five years- It doesn't matter as long as you instill into that child's life the need for knowledge. If and when you manage to do that, you have done a whole lot more than just give a child a grade and send her packing, you have created a life-long learner. That is the greatest thing a teacher could ever do.