1. MAET Goal Statement By: Tai Kimmerly

2. This is me. This was a very long time ago.

3. These are my parents. Mom is a hair dresser. Dad is a sheet metal worker.

4. As far back as I can remember, I asked for a piano. Can I please have a piano?

5. As far back as I can remember, I asked for a piano. Can I please have a piano?

6. Can I please have a piano? As far back as I can remember, I asked for a piano.

7. I am a very squeaky wheel.

8. I also took dance as a child.

10. But I didn’t really dance.

11. I played with strange things.

13. People noticed.

14. I stopped doing homework.

15. Are you sure you don’t have any homework? I stopped doing homework.

16. POSITIVE! I stopped doing homework.

17. I switched schools.

18. I switched schools. No more uniforms!

19. My new school had choir, so I didn’t have to pretend to dance!

20. I stopped playing with weird things.

21. Well, at least at school.

22. I once again did my homework.

23. Mostly. Zzzzzzz…

24. But I remembered how to work hard.

25. I graduated within the top 10 of my class.

26. After high school, I went to Oakland University to study music education.

27. It didn’t take long for me to realize that friends are better than coffee.

28. Graduation was here again in no time.

29. Graduation was here again in no time. Magna Cum Laude!

30. My passion and current job is teaching elementary music.

31. One of my goals is to have a classroom where everyone belongs…

32. Whether they play with glue,

33. Sing too loud,

34. Or need homework reminders.

35. It helps to have lessons the kids want to do. The xylophone is mine! I get the drum! I want the guiro! Can I please have a piano?

36. To make sure my lessons are things students want to do, my next goal is to add more technology components to my lessons.

37. It is a great tool to access the world around us.

38. It is also an inexhaustible resource of ways to reach my students, and effectively engage and assess them.

39. In order to improve my teaching and maximize the impact of my subject matter on students, technology is the method I would like to explore.

40. Song used: Michaelson, Ingrid. Be OK. Cabin 24 Records, 2008. CD.