My job is to instill within my students and my community a love of learning and a desire to cross boundaries and create connections with other places, other times, other styles, creating a diversity of vision . . . I believe as teachers, we provide children with the opportunity to succeed, and it is our job to make them feel positive about their educational experience and the work they are doing. We provide an atmosphere that creates a positive learning environment. Our perceptions shape our students experiences . . . Our job is to make them feel they can succeed and to accept failure as a growth experience.
Failures can be the stepping stones to great new ways of looking at life.
I want my students to feel safe enough to take risks and fail and still feel positive about their learning experience. Rosie's passion for art and for learning is contagious. She is fun to work with, an inspiration to others, and her tireless effort to make things better for students, their learning memorable, and fun. Rosie Riordan is an outstanding teacher. Rosie would be an outstanding teacher in any curricular area.