My teaching background also reflects on my teaching experience in TK-12 classrooms. Involved in UCSB extension program I have ever instructed over 90 elementary and secondary diverse students. As a volunteered teaching assistant in the TK-12 classrooms in Santa Barbara School district, I work with TK-8 and 7-12 Grade students for three quarters, providing instruction and assistance of mathematics, science and literacy to them. Most of them are from low-to-middle income families and parts of them are identified as underrepresented students seriously in need of help. In particular the bilingual students made achievement in term of customized to the formal instructional context. Those experience reflect on my teaching value to close the performance
