Hello! I am a student in the Bachelor of Education program at UNBC, and am a member of the cohort that should graduate into the world of teaching in December 2027. Over the next 15 months, I will take the life experiences I’ve gathered from almost four decades on this planet, and add to them experience teaching in a practicum environment, as well as lessons learned from the coursework and instructors that are the main component of my B.Ed degree.
At this time, this webpage is pseudoanonymous; although it would be trivial to determine my identity if one is interested to do so, I am hopeful that keeping my full name unlisted will provide enough of a buffer in today’s day and age of web scrapers and databases. My identity will be listed as “S. Argent” on this webpage.
As a student, I was identified as gifted at a young age and skipped Grade 2. Along with my late birthday on the calendar, this meant I was almost two years younger than some other students in my grade throughout my schooling. I eventually graduated high school at the age of 16, but didn’t earn my BSc. in Mathematics from UNBC until I was 27 – and I will be north of 40 before I receive my B.Ed! My atypical route through the public school system (or even the postsecondary system) is not one still in common use today. Back in my early teens I had decided that I wanted to teach in schools. I watched my teachers closely, and appreciated how they tried to bring the best out of everyone, sometimes through wildly different methods.
I believe that by taking a circuitous route to arrive in the B.Ed program, I have amassed valuable life experience. I also believe going directly from postsecondary into teaching is also reasonable – but I’m glad I didn’t do it! I learned a lot of lessons in my 12 year professional career such as managing burnout that may have turned me away from teaching if I had gone directly in.
In my free time, I try to stay active. I play golf, squash, softball, and walk my dog in the forest. This year, I am averaging over 10,000 steps a day, a mark I am very proud of, and the highest average since my phone began tracking it. On the sedentary side of things, I enjoy reading, chess, board games, and sim racing – a video game/simulation where I sit in a racing seat surrounded by 180 degrees of computer monitors, with immersive surround sound, and a steering wheel and foot pedals that vibrate based on the physics that the car I am driving is experiencing. I also paint my own sim racing cars in Photoshop. Below is a picture of the LMP3 “prototype” racecar I am (virtually) racing this fall & winter in two-hour races every second weekend.
