In 2018 I joined the Lacey Township Preschool team and began teaching PSD -Preschool Disabled and Inclusion. Once again I fell in love with preschool as well as my new district and my amazing new team. I immediately signed up at Kean University to complete my masters in Special Education and in May 2021 I will finally graduate. My aim is to hang my hat at the Lacey School District and be a foundational part of a growing early childhood program is a community oriented district.
In 2018 I joined the Lacey Township Preschool team and began teaching PSD -Preschool Disabled and Inclusion. Once again I fell in love with preschool as well as my new district and my amazing new team. I immediately signed up at Kean University to complete my masters in Special Education and in May 2021 I will finally graduate. My aim is to hang my hat at the Lacey School District and be a foundational part of a growing early childhood program is a community oriented district.
In 2018 I joined the Lacey Township Preschool team and began teaching PSD -Preschool Disabled and Inclusion. Once again I fell in love with preschool as well as my new district and my amazing new team. I immediately signed up at Kean University to complete my masters in Special Education and in May 2021 I will finally graduate. My aim is to hang my hat at the Lacey School District and be a foundational part of a growing early childhood program is a community oriented district.
Inspired by my overwhelming love for Books, Books and more Books along with the need for some funding in the Preschool Program where I taught, I helped to coordinate a book fair to raise money and help get us BOOKS!!
The theme of the book fair was Circus. My class kicked off the decorating for this event by creating a hallway filled with clowns. The Book fair was a HUGE success.
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EDUCATION & AWARDS
CURRENT EDUCATION GOALS
9/2019-present
GRADUATE WORK
M.A. Special Education - Learning and Behavioral Disabilities. Attending graduate school while teaching has been the most rewarding and enriching in my academic career. I thoroughly loved researching my Thesis on Analysis of Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on their Knowledge of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and the Strategies Needed to Provide Early Interventions
9/2009-6/2010
When I begin teacher preschool I learned that the state of New Jersey required a different license to teach early childhood. I immediately enrolled in Kean University's P3 Program. It was one of the best decisions and experiences of my life. Attending Graduate school for Education while I was teaching had an amazing impact and influence on me as an educator. I loved learning something new in school and then having the opportuniy to try it out the next day in the classroom. It was at Kean that I learned about Project Approach learning and fell in love with the notion of child driven studies and topic learning. To view some of the Project studies I conducted as a results of my educational influences at Kean please check out my project approach page here.
9/2009-6/2010
When I was working in Manahattan my company offered a tuition reimbursement program. During that time I was pursing a Masters in English to assist me with one of my responsibilities of creating company wide training manuals. I knew this degree would some day help my future teaching career. Sadly when September 11th happened I was 35 credits into this degree and was forced to stop.
UNDERGRADUATE
1/1994-6/1998
During my first semester of college my Guidance Counselor advised me to take a few business courses as my electives. He knew I had a great job in NYC and thought I should make sure I don't want to enhance my career there instead of going into Education. After 2 minutes of accounting I knew I should never have listened. It was my toughest class and my worst grade, but I learned a HUGE lesson!!! No one knows better then me what is best for me and what I want to do and I wanted to teach. From then on I went full speed ahead with my Education sequence which in The College of Staten Island required me to major in Science, Letters & Societies with a concentration in Elementary Education. I loved having a strong science, math and and societies base for my undergraduate degree and I knew it would help me as a teacher in the future. The rest of my electives were filled with additional Spanish classes with the hopes that someday it would also be useful in the classroom and it definitely has.