Experience Summary
As a consistent honor student with a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in Physics, I have always believed in the importance of an excellent education. I come from a family of educators who nurtured my love of knowledge. In university, I was editor-in-chief of the school paper, a literary annual, and a bi-annual magazine of international circulation. After winning a prestigious national honors award, I was offered a managerial position in a large commercial bank. After ten years in banking, I decided to pursue the career I consider noblest -- teaching. I earned distinguished marks in my Elementary Education certifying exams and was hired as a first grade teacher in Fort Myers, FL. My proudest achievement thus far is watching my students earn fantastic marks in their Stanford 10 exams. I love teaching students that many others before me gave up on, and then watching them achieve and exceed all expectations.
Teaching Style
I believe all students can learn, and it is the teacher’s job to know exactly how to teach them. I have taught students who had been unfairly labeled as “slow” or “below-level” when, in fact, they just simply had unique learning styles. I pride myself in being keenly aware of the differences in how children might process information. The teacher-student relationship is, at its core, a joint search for knowledge. The student is exposed to experiences and presented with knowledge from all possible sources. The teacher is crucial to helping the student organize these experiences so they become meaningful to the student and, ultimately, useful in his or her life. In a way, the effective teacher is an effective manager, aiding the student to make sense of what he or she experiences, to derive meaning from them, or even create new meanings.