My First Love: Teaching

Ever since I was in 1st grade, I have wanted to be a teacher.  At first I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, but shadowing one when I was in 7th grade made me change my mind.  Then I wanted to be a music teacher, but I didn't think I had the talent.  Then I wanted to be a French teacher, but I didn't think I spoke French well enough to do that.  Then my junior year of high school, I decided I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.  I went to Ohio University, entering as a chemistry education major through arts and sciences.  I began to do poorly my first quarter in math and chemistry, and then my second quarter did even worse.  I quickly switched to a French major, thinking that maybe I could teach French after all, but then I took my first linguistics course, learned about ESL and the rest is history.

This is a picture of some of my students from my second ESL class.  This picture was taken in June of 2000.  They were great and full of surprises.

These are some of my students in Taiwan.  I teach at one of the best preschools in Taipei.  These are amazing and wonderful children who have taught me as much as I have taught them.  And my two amazing teaching assistants Joanne and Melody...I don't know what I would have done without them!

Here I am making ornaments with two students for our Christmas concert in 2001.

This is a picture of me with my 4th grade class in Taipei.

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