The Rigorous Road

13 years of teaching has flown by and while I am still learning, I feel I am at a point where I am comfortable sharing my self-made resources. I have taught ages ranging from 3 to 61. I started as a Teaching Fellow in New York City and received my Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education. There, I started working with Emotionally Disturbed Students in middle and early high school. A few years later I traveled to South Korea and taught in private kindergartens. A year later I was starting at the #2 rated university in South Korea. When I came back to America though, my heart was still in Elementary and I have been teaching 4th and 5th graders since 2009!

Cooperative learning and open structured discussions are how I like to run my classroom. I fully believe in teaching students how to think and that there are many ways to arrive at many possible solutions. I run a rigorous, inviting, entertaining and fast-paced class. All students walk out at the end of the day mentally tired because they have been cognitively engaged from beginning to end at their own appropriate level.

Teacher of the Year Nominee, High Impact Teacher (only 4% of us were able to pull that off!)

Bachelors Degree in Sociology, Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education, ESOL Endorsed, Currently working on Gifted Endorsement

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