Who Am I?

     Who am I? Well, I am Lace Konkler and I'm 23 years old aspiring teacher! I was born and raised in Bozeman, MT until I moved to Denver for 8 years with my mother when I was 14 years old. I graduated High School as Salutitorian of my class from Jefferson Senior High (Edgewater, CO) and attended Metro State College of Denver for 3 years before transferring to Montana State University in 2011. After gaining residence in 2012, I began attending classes and traveling the world. Second to my Education I love photography and traveling. I have been to China, Mexico, Italy, and Great Britain.

     Someday soon I hope to be teaching students in High School who are aching to learn new information everyday, just waiting for a challenge that will make them enjoy school.

     We all go through those phases as childen where we change what we want to be in the future about a hundred and one times, so like any other child I did this too. Little did I know that the profession I one day chose in 4th grade would be something I was pursuing for a life long goal! I do not remember exactly what brought me to desire teaching at such a young age, probably how much fun I had with a teacher in that year, but I came home one day and told my parents "I want to be a teacher!"
Of course that was never set in stone truly, and the idea passed after fifth grade when there was a teacher that did not work well with me and discouraged me completely. I believe it was this point in time when I realized that my hearing situation would not be ideal for being a teacher to students.

     Where I was from- Manhattan, Montana, I was the only student in the entire school with a hearing loss. I wore this ugly FM transmitter around my neck everyday with wires that plugged into the back of my hearing aids and a special microphone for teachers to wear in order for me to hear them. Teaching, while something I thought would be amazing to do because at that age I loved helping others, I realized it was not ideal and just not possible. How could someone in my situation teach someone who could hear? Needless to say, that dream phased itself out as I tried to figure out what I could do with my life as a 'deaf' person.

     When I moved to Denver, Colorado and experienced being around other deaf students and a deaf teacher for the first time, I realized that it was possible to be a teacher to deaf students. After four years of High school and experience a wide variety of teachers, the dream to teach was still there, and now here I am with one year left until graduation.

     The only difference: I am a cochlear implant recipient planning to teach hearing students.

     The purpose of this is to allow you to get to know me a little more as an aspiring teacher. To learn my philosphies on how I want to teach students reading and writing literature. How I plan to teach them and what my goals are.

     As questions arise from others on my philosphies I will post new blogs and site where I am learning what I am believing to be useful.

Feel free to ask me any questions.
Lace