Educational Experience

As I mentioned in my “About Me” page, this is my first semester back at school in quite a while.  I have not had the pleasure, yet, of doing any field experience.  I have, however, raised three children and along the way have had many opportunities to interact with them and their classmates.  Certainly this interaction came from chaperoning field trips from the time my 25 year old daughter was a toddler in day care, meandering around the pumpkin patch, until  recently when I had the pleasure of chaperoning a 7^th grade field trip to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty (of course, this was before Hurricane Sandy). 

 In between my commute of 100 miles a day and my job, I did manage to volunteer some time at the elementary schools in my district.  Most recently, I had the honor of helping the art teacher guide a class of first graders in the art of clay drawing; I have read the children’s book I wrote for my creative writing class to a class of kindergarteners.  I enjoyed this experience immensely.  I am looking forward to the time I will be able to spend in the class room in the coming months. 

You can view an adapted lesson plan I created for another class, here.

You can view my resume, here.