A little about me...My name is Aaron Yeiser. I am 44 years old and live in my hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky. I am the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Daviess County Public Schools. Prior to this role I was one of the district's Instructional Technology Specialists. Previous to that during my 12+ years teaching in the Engineering and Technology Department, I primarily instructed Engineering Design, Robotics, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing courses, earning national certification for Project Lead the Way's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) project-based curriculum. In addition, I did consulting work for the Kentucky Department of Education in writing curriculum and assessment. I, also, have experience teaching adult learners from the local community college where I still teach Introduction to Computers as an adjunct instructor both on-site and on-line. I earned a degree in Industry and Technology Education from Murray State University, a master's degree and Rank I at Indiana Wesleyan University, and am certified as a school administrator.
Other than the time spent with my wife and kids at sports or scouting events, I enjoy watching news, sports and anything action. Go CATS! Go RACERS! Go COLTS! Long live MacGyver! |
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My favorite quote...
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is believed he adapted this quote from Proverbs 17:28
It is believed he adapted this quote from Proverbs 17:28
My favorite poem...
I don't enjoy classical literature or fiction. Nor do like poetry. I do, however, cherish my grandfather who gifted me this poem in his own hand-writing on my 13th birthday.
IF -- by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
IF -- by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
My current favorite scripture...
2 Chronicles 7:14-15 (NIV) where God speaks to Solomon at the dedication of the temple 14 ... if my people, who are called by my name,will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
