User talk:Vguti001

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Vguti001 (talk) 03:38, 1 September 2008 (UTC)  Vguti001 (talk) 03:37, 1 September 2008 (UTC)Hello everyone My name is Victor Gutierrez. I am 36, married for 8 years and have two children a girl 6 and a boy 3. I am returning to school to finish what I did not finish when I was younger. I was in manufacturing for 15 years and worked up the ranks to that but i found myself stuck in a job I was not really happy to have. Last year my wife and I relocated from the Silicon Valley in California to a suburb near Seattle, Washington. I am looking forward to finishing my degree and getting into the classroom. My teaching philosophy is still in a work in progress. I have a hard time thinking that education is a one size fits all concept. Being from California where there are a lot of migrant families its hard to understand why all the children are put into a melting pot without much help, sink or swim. Most kids unfortunately sink, I find it hard to imagine that when kids begin to fall behind in Kindergarden and first grade, they simply have to struggle to catch up. Something needs to be done to get these kids that are falling behind caught up somehow, with summer school, or tutoring or, whatever it takes to get things right. I worry as a teacher when I have a class full of kids where some of them simply are not grabbing the concepts. What as teachers are we supposed to do, teach down to the kids who cant or up to the kids who can. I guess the future will only tell but schools should adapt to the changing demographics that are blowing in the wind....

Hi Victor my name is Shannon. Although I myself have always wanted to be a teacher I have a friend doing the same thing as you she had been in advertising for several years when she decieded that that was not the place for her and is now getting her teaching licence. I think its great that you'll be switching to a job that you will actually happy to have.

Your teaching philosophy is alo great. I grew up in an area without a wide range of income or race or anything really then I moved closer to Washington D.C. and I now work with kids of low income houses and of all races. It does seem ridiculous that there are school systems who leave those who are strugling behind. I know there are certain children who just need more help than others for tons of different reasons. Good Luck!

Swrig020 (talk) 23:54, 7 September 2008 (UTC)