Personal
Mission Statement:
"I commit to my family, students and community to Inspire, Serve and, Educate with compassion"!
"I commit to my family, students and community to Inspire, Serve and, Educate with compassion"!
Educational
Philosophy
Creating a positive Professional Learning Community is the key element in education. Providing opportunities for lifelong learning to take place allows students and educators to find personal mastery together. Cooperative learning strategies are an important aspect in teaching and learning. As we teach our students to comprehend materials taught through our curriculum, it is just as important to get them ready for the real world and working with others.
Homework is imperative for practicing skills but teachers must remember the importance of everyday life. Wildman (1968) as cited in Cooper (1989) found “whenever homework crowds out social experience, outdoor recreation, and creative activities, and whenever it usurps time devoted to sleep, it is not meeting the basic needs of children and adolescents” (p. 203). Hours of homework every night preventing students from participating in extracurricular activities, developing socially or having quality family time should not be the norm.
Keeping Steven Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people in mind, I believe establishing work habits for students of being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, putting first things first, thinking win-win, seeking first to understand then to be understood, synergizing and sharpening the saw is best practice for everyday life in and out of the classroom. To truly educate, one must be able to understand and respect the mental images of students, parents and fellow educators. Creating an environment with technology support allowing students to be innovative thinkers is the support our twenty first century students need today!
Reference:
Cooper, H. (1989). Synthesis of Research on Homework. Educational Leadership,
Creating a positive Professional Learning Community is the key element in education. Providing opportunities for lifelong learning to take place allows students and educators to find personal mastery together. Cooperative learning strategies are an important aspect in teaching and learning. As we teach our students to comprehend materials taught through our curriculum, it is just as important to get them ready for the real world and working with others.
Homework is imperative for practicing skills but teachers must remember the importance of everyday life. Wildman (1968) as cited in Cooper (1989) found “whenever homework crowds out social experience, outdoor recreation, and creative activities, and whenever it usurps time devoted to sleep, it is not meeting the basic needs of children and adolescents” (p. 203). Hours of homework every night preventing students from participating in extracurricular activities, developing socially or having quality family time should not be the norm.
Keeping Steven Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people in mind, I believe establishing work habits for students of being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, putting first things first, thinking win-win, seeking first to understand then to be understood, synergizing and sharpening the saw is best practice for everyday life in and out of the classroom. To truly educate, one must be able to understand and respect the mental images of students, parents and fellow educators. Creating an environment with technology support allowing students to be innovative thinkers is the support our twenty first century students need today!
Reference:
Cooper, H. (1989). Synthesis of Research on Homework. Educational Leadership,