Mentee's+Bios

Business Education students, please upload your bios to this page: [|Jennifer Thomas.docx]

Tyler Forrest - I am currently teaching English 100 at the University of Regina as a sessional lecturer, which I’ve been doing for five years. This teaching experience has driven me to pursue the profession full-time. Since most of my secondary education focuses on English, I decided to differentiate my Education Degree in Business Ed., of which I am relatively familiar. I am fairly confident of my professional demeanor and classroom management abilities, but have little experience in teaching Business content, thus I may ask for some advice every now and then. I also have experience in the film industry, spending numerous hours on live sets as a Production Assistant, Producer’s Assistant, an Assistant Director, and as an Actor. I aspire to possibly develop a “Film Business” curriculum in the future, but for now, I am eager to implement my experience into a CPT course.

Hey everyone. For those who don’t know me, my name is Chelsa Heywood. I attended the U of R for five years where I played hockey and got my B. Bus. My intention was to enter law school after a few years of oversea adventures, where I played hockey with a women’s club in Prague, Czech Republic. While on vacation in Egypt, I started to question whether I wanted to go into law or another vocation. I was struck by the kids at the pyramids and my reaction made me think about going into a profession where I would be closely impacting the lives of kids rather than working in an office environment. While my interest is in teaching secondary education, it was the children at the pyramids that really got me thinking about what I truly want to do with my life.

After much reflection, I applied to the Education Faculty at the U of R and the rest, as they say, is history. My main areas of interest in business education are Economics, Law, Entrepreneurship, and Career and Work. I am also passionate about Personal Finance and getting this curriculum onto the transcript of every graduating student in the future. It’s a poor argument that asserts this course is not needed in the life of every citizen!

I’m really looking forward to this semester of being in a high school and starting to get a taste for what being a teacher is really all about. I’m thankful that we get to be the “guinea pigs” on this project at Balfour; I know I'm ready to get out of university (finally) and into a high school. I think we’re all going to learn a lot this semester through this experience. I’m also glad for the opportunity to get paired up with a mentor. I like the “don’t reinvent the wheel” attitude that seems to generally pervade education, so to learn from someone wiser and older than me is going to be great.

Looking forward to it!

Chelsa

**Katie Rosenkranz**
I'll start off with a little bit of background about myself. I am 20 years old, and as you already know, in my third year of education at the U of R. My major is Business Education and my minor is Math. I entered university directly out of high school, so I am one of the younger in our group of seven. I was a part of the last graduating class of Robert Usher Collegiate, a small high school here in Regina that was closed in June of 2008. The four years I spent at Usher were not only great times. but very influential on my life. Usher was an extremely close knit community (especially in the tough times of the closure) with an amazing staf f, and it was many of these individual teachers who had a large impact on my career choice.

I love playing basketball, and I play on a ladies league team with Amy McFarlen, one of the other business education girls, and Amy and I also coach a grade 7/8 girls' basketball team together. I hope to, and am excited to begin coaching at the high school & more competitive level when I begin teaching, as well as be involved in many other extra-curricular areas. I have worked in a clothing store for 3.5 years, so I have quite the large closet, and maybe a tad bit of a shopping addiction. I have a huge desire to travel and see the world, and I hope that is something I am able to do in the future.

More business education related, I took Accounting 10, 20, 30 and Information Processing 10, 20, 30 in high school, and Entrepreneurship, Law, and Career & Work were also offered and being taught at Usher. For a high school of under 400 students to be able to offer and teach all of these business education courses, it discourages me to find out Balfour, a high school of over 800 students does not even offer most of these courses. We definitely have some work & promoting to do for business education while we are there this semester! I am interested in teaching almost every area of business education, but have to admit Accounting is my "baby".

I look forward to not only the new, exciting and somewhat unknown semester ahead of us, but also this unique mentorship experience itself! Please feel free to check out my blog/electronic portfolio [|www.katierosenkranz.com] or follow me on Twitter @krosenkranz. Did I mention I am a big advocate of technology, PLN's, and resource sharing??!

Katie