Hi All,
I'm a teacher. I graduated from college with a partial teaching credential, which meant that I finished all my courses and my student teaching in four years. I fortunately was hired at the age of 22 by a principal who was a tennis buddy. I spent the next seven years teaching elementary school full time while taking classes in the evenings at the local university to finish my teaching credential, Masters in Elementary Ed., plus my Reading Specialist Credential.
I love teaching kids and have been teaching over 27 years. I've taught 1st-4th grades and now have been teaching 6th graders for the past five years in Math and Science. I want to be the teacher that does things during the year that the students will remember when they think back on their school career as adults.
I got into computers when we had the old Apple IIe in the classrooms. I was always so frustrated with the limits of those computers. I wrote several grants to upgrade our classrooms with the first Pentium computers. The kids wrote to penpals all over the country. We would do some fabulous PowerPoint Presentations that we would have looping whenever we had parents come to visit. It was pretty impressive to see what the third and fourth graders could do back then. Kids who had never done very well in academics were suddenly the stars of the class. They learned the tech skills quickly and were great teachers to the other students.
So, you could call me a teacher who is always looking for a better, more interesting, way to teach the students the skills they need to learn in whatever grade level I am instructing.
Write on!
Anne
