User:Kridg002

ABOUT ME

My name is Kimberley. I am a distant learner from the state of Washington. A little about me, I am 26 and a mother of a 8 year old son. Like I said I live in Washington State. I graduated from Olympic College with my AAS my major in Education. I will be attending ODU to finish my BA Teaching and Master's Degrees. My specialization is in Pre-K-3.In my spare time I love to just hang out with my son and do lots of outdoor activities with him. I do scapbooking, plan parties, and make cards. Swimming, tennis, and bowling are wonderful activities that both my son and I enjoy doing.

I have had about 8 years working with children in childcare, running my own in home childcare, 2 years were spent with AmeriCorps Washington Reading Corps. That was a great experience. I know work with Olympic Educational Service District 114 as an Assistant Head Start Teacher. This is my second year working with preschoolers and Head Start. It also has been a wonderful and meaningful experience.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

Like was mentioned before this will not be cemented. I will change what I write as I am still getting the hang of writing a philosophy. For me teaching is something that you work hard for. You have to have the heart to teach these young innocent minds. After all some parents say that it is the teacher who teaches not the parents. In order to teach you must have the understanding that not all students come from the same cultural backgrounds, and therefore their needs will be different. As we take into consideration of these needs to the students we have to consider how we will arrange our classrooms to work with the schools codes of academics which we can often find ourselves in a bind because there may be restrictions that we find outrageous.