Hello!
Welcome to Collaborating With Catabia! I am very excited for this graduate class, ED 532-Advanced Methods, Teaching Students with LD, and the opportunity to create my own blog! Yes, I am one of THOSE teachers who has spent more than my fair share of time admiring others blogs, and have been telling myself to begin my own. HERE IS MY OPPORTUNITY! Along with this blog, devoted to this graduate class, I also plan to start one for my own 1st grade classroom this semester. So stay tuned!
I am currently a 1st grade teacher in Hudson, New Hampshire. I have taught Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. My favorite and most rewarding experience was when I decided to loop with one of my 1st grade groups and I took them on and taught 2nd grade. It was such a FABULOUS opportunity with an amazing group!
I received my bachelors degree in Elementary and General Special Education and am currently ALMOST finished with my M.ed in Reading and Learning Disabilities.
Along with being a busy teacher and graduate student I also run an afterschool cheerleading program for 30 3rd and 4th graders, I am involved in many different committees at the Elementary school that I work at, and currently direct the new-teacher mentoring program. This year a fellow colleague and I helped to develop strategies for an RTI behavior management program that has been implemented in the school that I am teaching at. We even got to speak about it at the NH Winter Principals Conference, in Meredith, NH.
The world of education has ALWAYS been something that I have been extremely passionate about. It is my biggest mission to allow every student the opportunity to develop a strong sense of self , feeling of community, and passion for learning. I love planning, creating, and implementing hands-on activities to engage my little learners. The use of technology in my classroom has completely changed the way I teach and view best teaching practices-it is INCREDIBLE to facilitate the learning experiences that can take place with the use of a smartboard!
Thanks for spending some time getting to know me…I look forward to seeing how COLLABORATING WITH CATABIA develops in the coming months!
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