My wife, Tonya, was used as a reference because she has 17 years of elementary classroom teaching experience. When it comes to strengths, she doesn’t prejudge a student’s performance based on their cultural differences and socioeconomic status. There is a growing population of English as Second Language learners in her classroom, and she believes that just because English may not be their first language that it's no indicator of their performance in the classroom. She likes to promote a positive atmosphere in her classroom. She loves to encourage her students when they perform well at a math problem and endorses an environment where the students respect each other and their cultural differences. She uses a system that selects students
