About+Me

=About Me!=

====Hi there! While I am attending Seattle University, I am living north of Seattle in the Mukilteo/Edmonds area. I am in my four quarter in the Curriculum and Instruction program here at SU and plan to complete my Master's degree by Spring 2011 (3 quarters to go!).====

====I attended Western Washington University for my undergraduate where I majored in Elementary Education Studies and received my WA State Teaching Certificate with an Elementary endorsement. As many of you have felt the lack of teaching jobs during our wonderful recession, I have decided to attend school full time and find a job when I finish. Therefore, my teaching experience has been from my many practica at WWU and my full year of student teaching up in the Nooksack Valley School District in a 1st/2nd grade classroom. During this experience I learned how much I enjoyed teaching 2nd graders and hope to land a position in the near future in a primary classroom. I am planning on substituting in the Northshore School District this fall which will hopefully give me more classroom experience.====



====I have a strong interest in natural science and look forward to using inquiry-based science in my classroom. I plan to have a very cooperative learning-based classroom. As I have learned from my student teaching and in many of my classes here at SU, students can actively engage in meaningful cooperative experiences that allow for wonderful, authentic learning. I plan to use many aspects of active learning in my classroom, since my grade level choice requires me to create active lessons for the active minds (and bodies).====

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