Hello my name is Katherine Humphreys but I like to go by Katie. I grew up in Millville, which is in Cache Valley just south of Logan. Millville is a very small farm town, so I grew up on a small farm. When I say small we had 3 cows and a bunch of chickens.
I live in Salt Lake now and have for a little over 4 years. I moved here to go to the U. I started out as a Music Performance Major and then made several changes, among those were Music Ed, History, Art History and then finally History Teaching with an ESL minor.
I am still very involved in the Music Department here. I actually work there now, in the front office. I play in the Marching Band, this is my 5th year and until this year I was playing in the concert band also. Oh I play the Piccolo and Flute.
I like sports, Basketball and Baseball mainly and if the Utes are playing football. (Too bad we lost last night.)
Basketball I, of course, watch the Jazz even when they aren't doing so well. Baseball is a different story I usually will watch who ever is playing, my mom is a Yankees fan and my roommate/best friend is a Red Sox fan so it can get a bit awkward sometimes.
I decided to teach because of my mom. She is a Special Education Behavioral Coordinator for the Cache County School District and was for 10+ years in the classroom before that. I think that teachers are amazing and I want to be one. I want to teach 7th and 8th grade (I know I'm crazy!). I taught a 7th grade Utah Studies class last year and I loved it! The kids were great, even when I felt discouraged I never wanted to stop I just wanted to fix it.
I think that the technology that we will be learning about and using in this class will be a tremendously important in my classroom. Now history is at your fingertips, with computers and the Internet. There are new ways to understand history. I can't wait to learn new and different ways I can present history in a classroom.
