A Blast from the Past!

My HEART of Teaching

Hi! My name is Hailey Smith and I am very excited about this blog. First off, I love teaching! I am a senior at the University of Tennessee at Martin studying Elementary Education. I will graduate this December, Fall of 2015. When I was growing up, I admired the hard work that I watched my family spend on their classrooms and their students. On Sundays after church when we would eat lunch, I would get so jealous because they would be discussing school and things that I just did not understand. In my teenage years, I decided that I would go against the family loom and go to school to become a registered nurse.
Little did I know that near the end of my senior year in high school, I would be discussing a change of heart with my mom: I had decided that I wanted to be a teacher and I could see myself doing so for the rest of my life. I started observing teachers at the elementary schools in the afternoons and that eventually lead to substitute teaching after graduation.
So. . . Back to "A BLAST FROM THE PAST". Here is a cool and very unique fact about myself: I come from a long line of very prominent educators. Those Sundays after church have become to be the best part of my week and my "reward" to myself if I get discouraged or need advice!
Here are some of my role-models and the best educators a family can have!

In the back: Barry Olhausen- (My Great-Uncle)

The left in pink:Kerri Olhausen Newsom (My Mom)

 The center: "Miss" Mary Olhausen (My Great-Grandmother) 

Beside her: Brenda Olhausen Gray (My Great-Aunt)

Yellow: Me