My undergraduate education was funded almost entirely with scholarships and a few grants. Every teaching day provides new challenges - how to enable the child to paint who cannot hold a brush, to motivating the seventh grader with severe learning disabilities who has low self esteem. The added responsibility of teaching computer technology to grades K-3 and maintaining the school's computers has provided yet another avenue for me to move beyond my comfort level with computers and gain even more knowledge. I am a keen observer, discovering the needs and interests of my students, building upon their strengths and abilities. I strongly believe that all students can achieve and make every effort for success.
Students soon realize that with hard work and effort, they can accomplish things.
In the art classroom, I utilize a variety of media and techniques, understanding that strengths are recognized through repetition and diversity. Once students discover their niche such as handbuilding with clay, they seem to be more apt to undertake the unfamiliar. An overseas teaching adventure would provide growth as a professional, strengthen skills in a foreign language, and develop an appreciation of cultures not possible by other means. Embarking on a new journey of international teaching at this point in my life would be advantageous. I am single and unattached, will have finished my graduate studies, and do not own a home.