Subject: Math

Education: B.S. Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University

                  M.ED. Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Mathematics Concordia University

Experience: 2000 - 2003 Wichita High School South  Wichita Kansas

                     2013 - Current Harnett County Schools High School Math

                    

About Me: I was born and raised in Michigan and I find the winters here in North Carolina to be much ado about nothing. I went to college at Michigan Technological University and if you want to see some real snow check out the web cam almost any time between December and March. I can't think of a time there wasn't a white Christmas up there and I even know of a couple times there was a white Halloween. http://www.mtu.edu/webcams/

I met the love of my life in high school and followed him up to Michigan Tech for college. After he graduated we got married and he started Air Force pilot training while I finished up school.I joined him in Florida then Oklahoma, then we finally settled down for a while in Kansas. By this time I had been out of school for over a year but couldn't get a job as an environmental engineer in any of the places we had been in yet. I knew we weren't going to be in Florida or Oklahoma for very long and no one wants to hire a brand new engineer on a short term basis. It turned out in Kansas no one wanted to hire an engineer with a one year gap in her resume either.

Out of sheer boredom I got a job at McDonald's during one of my husband's deployments. Someone there recommended that I try substitute teaching. I was surprised to find out you didn't need a teaching degree to be a substitute. I was even more surprised to find out you didn't need a teaching degree to be a real teacher either. I was able to get into a classroom as the teacher while I took classes to become a teacher. Here in North Carolina it is similar to the lateral entry program for teachers. I truly loved teaching in Kansas.

Suddenly it was time to move again, this time to Texas. Since we were also about to have our first daughter I didn't teach in Texas. I didn't teach in Florida when we got moved there and we had our second daughter. However, here in North Carolina the kids were both ready to go to school full time and I decided I wanted to teach again. For the last 5 years I have been teaching in Harnett and Wake counties.

My husband hit his 20 years in the Air Force and has retired, our dream house is here in the area.  Our moving days are done and I plan to be here for a long long time.

This year I will be teaching my dream schedule; Precalculus, Calculus, and Math 2.  Last year's students were so amazing that I didn't want the year to stop.  After a short family vacation I went to a week of training about Calculus BC.  Even though I don't have a calculus BC class by knowing what is taught in the next level I feel more prepared to teach the Calculus AB.  I was most surprised by how much it reinforced the precalculus standards.  The resources I aquired at this training are going to make me a better teacher for both classes.  Not long after the training I started counting down the days to the start of the school year and I am even more excited about this year than last.  

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