I grew up in Jasper, Alabama and graduated from Walker High School in 1994. I completed my BS in Secondary Education – Social Science in 1998 at the University of North Alabama. In 2005, I completed my MA in American History at Mississippi State University.
Before moving to Tupelo in 1999, I taught at Muscle Shoals High School in Muscle Shoals, AL. Upon moving to Tupelo, I began substitute teaching at Tupelo High School, which continued until I received my own classroom there in 2001. While at Tupelo High School, I taught US History, World History, Humanities I, Biblical History, and Mississippi Studies. I also facilitated the THS Mock Trial team.
With much excitement, my family made the decision to return to The Shoals where I taught World History at Florence Freshman Center and World Civilizations at UNA. It was an amazing year as I struggled through being a “floating teacher” and a first time student council sponsor.
We are now beginning a new adventure in Concord, North Carolina. Accepting a position at Gray Stone Day School, and following our long time hope of living in North Carolina, I am teaching AP United States History, International Relations and Civics.
I employ various teaching methods to educate my students in their learning style. I also incorporate technology inside and outside the classroom by using PowerPoint to enhance instruction and maintaining a website for students and parents to utilize for lesson plans, assignments, and other resources such as on-line practice tests. I have also participated in workshops and training sessions to improve my teaching and understanding of students living with dyslexia, in poverty, and those who are English Language Learners.
Each day, I go home to a wonderful family. My husband and I have two daughters, three dogs, and one cat. Life and our children keep us rather occupied, however in my spare time I do enjoy reading, web-design, and music.
My husband and I are both musicians. He is a percussionist who plays on a regular basis with church and other groups. I play trumpet, but no longer on the regular basis that I would like. If you monitored our television it would not be too exciting, at least not until football season. Usually you will find us watching Food Network, a news channel or the occasional sitcom. My husband enjoys NASCAR and loves watching Auburn Football each Fall.
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hey mrs. sharbutt hope u remember me i miss your humor how are u i hope u are doing well wished u could come back so u could see my hair i highlighted it with blonde streaks and trimmed it too THIS YEAR IS GOING PRETTY WELL 4 ME WRITE BACK
Of course I remember you!!! You highlighted your hair- how cool! I’m not brave enough to go with blonde blonde highlights…afraid my hair would do the orange thing-EEEK! I like where I am and things are going well. We’re still not unpacked though. No problem, who needs to actually park cars in their garage anyway?
Glad your year is going well!
Hey, Mrs.Sharbutt………….I don’t like our new project…….especially sence I got Peru instead of Australia or Ireland.
LOL, you don’t have to like it Davy.
I think you will find Peru to be an OK place to visit. Search for “travel Peru” or “tour Peru” and you will find websites that will guide you through your planning.
So far so good. Hope the year goes as smoothly as planned.
(The pictures of your cat make it look slightly demonic
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I like how you have your own website. I have never had a teacher so adept with computers before.
Jason, I hope so too! Alli (our cat) lives up to her image.
Kaleb, thank you. I am fascinated by all that technology can do so figure I might as well use it!
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Hey back, thank you for taking an interest in class and stopping by!
Do you have to pay anything for this site? I have been trying to find some free internet site that actually gives me a .com name so I can put some of my photography pictures online.
I use 1and1.com as my host and it is fairly reasonable. I host four sites so it was the best option for me. I used Blogger for a while and know a lot of people who use the free versions of Wordpress and Typepad. I think Yahoo offers domain hosting as well, but I am not familiar with it or their policies.
I have one abandoned site on yahoo but its a pain for people to find it and it takes forever to type in the url. I have used 1and1 before for my dad’s company since I am their IT director
but we just recently bought Web Easy Professional 7 to use instead of 1and1, and yeah 1and1’s prices are quite reasonable.
Looks like a neat program. I have a few that I play with, but prefer Wordpress as a platform for this type site. I was very disappointed with 1and1’s web tools for easy site creation. Very easy to use, but oh so slow. 1and1’s hosting is still my preferred, but I will use other web tools for site creation.