My name is Ashley Huppert. I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska
where I attended Lincoln Public Schools from Kindergarten through my senior
year of high school. After graduation I moved to Kansas City where I attended
college and then decided to transfer to Peru State my junior year and finish up
with my bachelors degree. I met my husband at Peru. We were marrried a little over two years ago and we have a 6 month old son who is SOOO much fun! I enjoy sports and love any kind of
competition. After Peru I accepted a job in Iowa teaching grades 5 through 12
with 7 preps!!! I was also the head girls varsity basketball coach, head boys
and girls golf coach, prom sponsor, yearbook advisor and started a Business Professionals
of America (BPA) group. This was an interesting first year challenge for me and
I am very glad that I got the experience to be a part of so many things. I
taught at this school for four years and decided to move closer to home and my husband’s
job also required us to move. I accepted a job in Fremont, Nebraska working
with the middle school students. This was a BIG change for me, but definitely a
good change! I went from having six to seven preps to only one prep throughout
the day. We also got a chance to purchase our first house and move closer to
family, so this was a very exciting change for us.
I am a business teacher and feel like I have worked a fair amount
with technology as some of the classes I have taught have been computer
courses. Our current principal really enjoys technology and is constantly
thinking of new technology ideas for our building, which is GREAT! Some of the technology
that I have used in the classroom includes Elmos, Smart Boards, the last school
I was at was a one-to-one school so each student and teacher had their own Macbook,
Office, PowerSchool and so on. I would have to say that if I could choose between
a Mac or a PC I would choose a PC. I personally like them much better, I know
there are many people out there that think Macs are much better then PCs. I
probably wouldn’t argue with someone about which one is better and why but I
just like using PCs better then Macs and they seem like they are much more compatible
with everything else out there. Some of
the technology that I use in the classroom is COWS (computers on wheels), MicroType,
TypingWeb, Elmo, Smartboard, PowerTeacher, MS Office 2007.
I was inspired to pursue my Masters at PSC for multiple reasons. I chose Peru because I felt comfortable with the school since I received my Bachelors from Peru I thought that I would be familiar with the way the school operates, as well as the fact that all of the classes are offered online. I probably would have no way of getting my masters for a quite a few years if it was not offered online. I was really sparked to complete it at Peru because of all of the technology classes that are offered. I really wanted to take as many technology related courses as I could. I feel that it is very important that I am updated on current technology because I am the business/computer teacher. Also as I stated earlier, our building principal really likes to keep the building updated on current technology so I thought it would be a great way to relay a lot of information that might be beneficial to the school and all of the teachers. After receiving my degree I plan to continue my education with TigerU classes which are offered through our school district. They are classes which offer professional development credit and give you “credit” as a college would that only apply in your district.
