Professional learning is an ongoing process and I am at my best a student eager to learn. Last school year I worked on completing my gifted endorsement and this year I am enrolled in the Teacher Leader endorsement, my mom always tells me that I love learning so much because when I was in her womb she was in her senior year in college, she even tells me I took a couple of classes with her, and would respond in her womb to the professor, so, I guess I’m a natural born learner. As a student I was inducted into several honor societies including Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, Phi Kappa Phi, International Honor Society, Pi Lambda Theta, International Honor Society for Education, Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Society,
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I have worked closely with the district level Social Studies coordinator at both the summer academy and the district wide professional development held at the beginning of the school year, it was my immense honor to be able to work with her as I continue to grow as a leader. Additionally, I presented a class on “Best Practices in Social Studies”, in which I trained other teachers on making social studies engaging through the use of mnemonic devices, foldables and the technique of “activating SCHEMA”, which is simply a set of questions through which social scientist should always be thinking to ensure that learning connections are forged. I have had the opportunity to hold several building level professional development sessions including training session on the iMM pad training, screencasting, and engagement strategies to name a …show more content…
All of these accolades simply represent the sacrifice I am willing to make to ensure that one day all children will have access to an equitable education. One of my greatest recognitions was last school year, on the Friday before Christmas break my principal, assistant principal and someone form the district office came to my classroom, they said to me “The Secret Santa wants you to know we recognize and appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to our students” they then handed me a card with a beautiful message inside, being recognized by the district level personnel for outstanding commitment to students was very meaningful, because I work hard each year to ensure that my students are growing academically, but also so they know that I care and am dedicated to their
I have worked closely with the district level Social Studies coordinator at both the summer academy and the district wide professional development held at the beginning of the school year, it was my immense honor to be able to work with her as I continue to grow as a leader. Additionally, I presented a class on “Best Practices in Social Studies”, in which I trained other teachers on making social studies engaging through the use of mnemonic devices, foldables and the technique of “activating SCHEMA”, which is simply a set of questions through which social scientist should always be thinking to ensure that learning connections are forged. I have had the opportunity to hold several building level professional development sessions including training session on the iMM pad training, screencasting, and engagement strategies to name a …show more content…
All of these accolades simply represent the sacrifice I am willing to make to ensure that one day all children will have access to an equitable education. One of my greatest recognitions was last school year, on the Friday before Christmas break my principal, assistant principal and someone form the district office came to my classroom, they said to me “The Secret Santa wants you to know we recognize and appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to our students” they then handed me a card with a beautiful message inside, being recognized by the district level personnel for outstanding commitment to students was very meaningful, because I work hard each year to ensure that my students are growing academically, but also so they know that I care and am dedicated to their