Experience Summary
For the last four years, I had been teaching seventh and eighth literature and reading in an urban community. My duties included providing instruction in the curriculum defined by grade level content expectations, maintaining a safe and orderly classroom environment, communicating with parents via progress reports, designing a classroom conducive for learning, creating a community that embraces diversity and character education, and collaborating with fellow teachers to promote a school-wide climate for higher-order thinking.
Teaching Style
All students can learn if the teacher provides a plan that meets the needs of the individual. Children are not like a string of white lights on a tree, blinking in unison or out when they are unplugged. Children are like ornaments, varied in strength, size, fragility-but all unique and significant. Each one has to be individually and carefully placed on the branches where they will be noticed and shine. Like ornaments, children have to be given a place where they can shine-academically, emotionally, socially and individually. I am a teacher who would facilitate the learning of the individual student to help them become successful in their community-a tree of individual ornaments that bring significance and light to the world of education.