I believe in...
- Creating a classroom community where each child feels safe and accepted among their peers
- Building relationships with students and their families
- Implementing several teaching strategies to reach different types of learners
- Meeting students where they are then pushing them further to help them reach their full academic potential
- Data driven instruction
- Making learning fun and relative to students' lives
- Holding students to high standards and realistic expectations
- Establishing routines and procedures for in and out of class daily activities
- Fostering students who think critically about the world around them
- Being resourceful
- Teaching the "whole child" educationally, emotionally, and artistically
- Using students' strengths to build up their weaknesses.
- Exposing students to different technologies to be used as an aid in their learning
- Organization in the classroom
- Making accommodations for different learners
- Holding students accountable for their actions and behavior
- Trying different teaching approaches when students do not fully understand a topic
- Differentiation of assignments, activities, instruction, and management
- Using education as a vehicle to create well-rounded, open-minded citizens in an ever changing world
- consistency in the classroom