CHRISTY TUCKER

I have a Music Education degree with a German minor from Illinois Wesleyan University. During my first year of teaching, I taught music and band in a rural school where all grades K-12 were in the same building. My course load included high school band; high school music appreciation; junior high band; fifth grade band; fifth grade band lessons; and general music for kindergarten, first, third, and fifth grades; plus high school lunch supervision. It certainly gave me a lot of experience juggling multiple responsibilities at once! I wrote about my experience creating the music appreciation curriculum without a textbook in First Steps on My Instructional Design Journey... My next teaching job was at a middle school managed by the Edison Schools corporation. While there were plenty of challenges, one of the benefits of teaching for an Edison School was that every teacher received a laptop and regular technology training. I loved being able to experiment and learn new technologies and..