User:Ronei007

Hi, my name is Rosario and I am from Spain. I grew up over there and studied at the University of Seville, where I got my bachelors degree in Spanish and my masters in English. Then I lived in London for a year, where I taught Spanish. I took a semester of Elizabethan literature at the University of Oxford and I decided to persue my doctorate when I returned to Spain. I was working in that and many other intellectual pursuits, when I fell in love with an American. We got married and I followed him all over the world. We had five boys and ended up in Virginia Beach. My husband got sick and died a year ago. I work for Virginia Beach Public Schools as a Spanish teacher in Middle School.

Educational Philosophy
I love teaching, that is what I have done since my college years. I love teaching languages because I believe that you are allowed to enter one of the most intimate parts of the mind:  the part where thought and ideas take shape. Teaching here, in America, seems to be all work and no fun. I believe that teaching should be fun for the teacher and the student. I believe that teachers are made, but some times, they are also born. I believe that technology is a useful tool in class, but sometimes people forget that it is just a tool. The focus must always be the students, and the day you have not talked to each one of your students, even if you just say "Good morning", you lose ground. I don't think that teachers should be friends with the students: they have to be teachers that teach constantly because they care about them.