My name is Niki Van Nuland and I am a senior at UW-Oshkosh majoring in Elementary Ed and Special Ed 1-8th grade. I hope to teach upper elementary students, either in a regular ed setting or a special ed setting, because I think that at this age they are still so eager to learn, but also old enough that you can do fun things and joke around with your students. I always loved the teachers who weren't scared to have a sense of humor with us so I hope to be like that someday with my students. I work as an Autism Line Therapist and absolutely love it. I really enjoy the aspect of working one-on-one with a child and developing a strong connection with them.
I believe our team was named after Rachel Pike because she is a scientist who isn't afraid to go to crazy limits to test her experiments. She will hang out of a plane at the top of a rain forest to test what she is experimenting. As educators we need to teach our students to not be afraid and to be ambitious when they are being scientific. We should encourage them to try new things and be creative and fearless when coming up with new experiments and questions. She is also very passionate about what she is doing and as teachers all we can hope is that our students will develop the same kind of passion, whether in science or any other subject.
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