My name is Laura Thomas and I am currently a senior at Bloomsburg University. This semester I am participating in the Professional Development School Practicum at Central Columbia High School. This coming spring I will complete my student teaching at Central.

I am excited about teaching high school English, and hope to create an understanding and appreciation of language arts in my students. I grew up in Danville Pennsylvanina, a town not far from the university that I attend, and graduated in 2006 from the Danville Area High School. Ever since I was little I have enjoyed reading for pleasure, and through my high school career I came to love writing, public speaking and literature as well.

Outside the academic world, I work part time at a local veterinary clinic. It may seem like working as a receptionist at an animal hospital has nothing to do with my career choice. But, I feel that through my job I have learned to interact and communicate with all types of people, across various situations. Obviously, skills in communication are essential to being an effective teacher. My family also operates a small beef operation and is invovled in hobby farming. Working with our cows and horses is something that I truely enjoy and would like to continue doing in the future. As you look around this site, I hope that you will get a better idea of who I am, my ideas about English education and my goals for teaching!

This website was created my sophomore year for my Educational Computing and Technology course at Bloomsburg University. Through this project I have gained a basic understanding of web design and creation. I think that this site will serve a greater purpose than just a class project. I plan to keep it updated and use it throughout my years as an English teacher. Hopefully, the information contained on this will be useful to my students, other teachers and myself as I begin my teaching career.

This site is always under construction and I plan to make it more ogranized and user friendly over the next several months. Currently, the majority of what is on this website are projects created for the classes I have taken for my Educational Techology minor. As I move forward in my career the contents of this site will become more closely related to what I am teaching in my classroom.

If you would like to contact me or if you have any questions about morethangrammar.com, please email me at lat22920@huskies.bloomu.edu.