Hello Parents and Guardians, I am Mr. Cervantes, and I am the student teacher working with Mrs. Blasjo in your child’s English Language Arts classroom this quarter. I am currently completing my student teaching semester at California Baptist University in the hope of earning my Single Subject English Teaching Credential by the end of this year. It excites me to be working here at Frank Augustus Miller Middle School, but it excites me even more that I get to share this deeply formative season of my life with your child. Education has been a great blessing in my life, in more ways than I can count or recall. I had the privilege of attending UC Riverside, where I graduated magna cum laude with my Bachelor’s degree in English in 2015. During my college years, I
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Talleda This note, eighteen-years old, composed of seemingly insignificant letters penned long ago, tells me of one of the biggest reasons I am who I am today. A teacher cared enough to shape me, to train me, to lift me higher than my little mind could then understand. And now, eighteen years later, I stand and see the person I hope to become—a role model, a light, a guide, a teacher to the youth. I will soon be taking over Mrs. Blasjo’s ELA classroom periods for a period of five weeks as I train to become that teacher I hope to be. I understand that, by implicit connection, in entrusting your child to her teaching, you are now, by extension, entrusting your child to me. I feel with great awe the responsibility that is soon to be laid on me, in the shaping of your child’s mind and heart, especially as I learn what it will take to become that guide and role model to the youth that I aspire to be. I can only thank you for giving me this opportunity to not only sharpen my teaching craft but also to grow as a teacher and, ultimately, as a learner with your children, who have already welcomed me into their class. Looking forward to a wonderfully shaping quarter with you, Mr.
Talleda This note, eighteen-years old, composed of seemingly insignificant letters penned long ago, tells me of one of the biggest reasons I am who I am today. A teacher cared enough to shape me, to train me, to lift me higher than my little mind could then understand. And now, eighteen years later, I stand and see the person I hope to become—a role model, a light, a guide, a teacher to the youth. I will soon be taking over Mrs. Blasjo’s ELA classroom periods for a period of five weeks as I train to become that teacher I hope to be. I understand that, by implicit connection, in entrusting your child to her teaching, you are now, by extension, entrusting your child to me. I feel with great awe the responsibility that is soon to be laid on me, in the shaping of your child’s mind and heart, especially as I learn what it will take to become that guide and role model to the youth that I aspire to be. I can only thank you for giving me this opportunity to not only sharpen my teaching craft but also to grow as a teacher and, ultimately, as a learner with your children, who have already welcomed me into their class. Looking forward to a wonderfully shaping quarter with you, Mr.