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Antelope Valley Union High School District
Antelope Valley High School
English / Information Systems Academy

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B.A. - Christian Thought / Philosophical Studies & English (Double Major) Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA)
M.Ed. - English Education
Lynchburg College (Lynchburg, VA)
Professional Clear Single Subject Teaching Credential: English / Language Arts, CLAD, Life Science
California State University, Northridge
Additional Graduate Courses:
English Literature - California State University, Northridge
Confluent Education - University of California, Santa Barbara

My teaching career began at Southwest Baptist University's Springfield (Missouri) campus. I taught English 101 and 102 as an Adjunct Instructor. I then moved back to California and, after working in Vocational Rehabilitation for one year, began teaching Bilingual Science at Washington Irving Middle School in Los Angeles. I was working on my credential at the same time. After two years of teaching at Irving and taking credential courses as CSUN, I was able to complete my student teaching during the summer at Grant High School in Van Nuys. Completing my credential at the end of the summer of 1996, I took a position teaching English at Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Calfornia. I have been teaching at AVHS ever since. For the past 4 years, I have had the pleasure of teaching within the Information Systems Academy (ISA) at AVHS.

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Academic Goals

My current academic goals center around completing this MA program in Educational Technology in order to better serve the students enrolled in AVHS' Information Systems Academy. I am very interested in literacy and literacy learning, so I hope to be able to incorporate some of this into the current program. Ultimately, I would like to complete a Ph.D or Ed.D program related to the use of technology in the development of literacy skills.

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Educational Philosophy

Learning is a process of engagement or contact with the world around us. We move through stages of engagement throughout our lives -- numerous times each day. As we engage with the world around us, we begin to determine where "I" end and where "it" begins. Thus, our behavior and our experiences are directly related to the environment in which we live because it is this environment directly from which we meet our needs. The intensity of our engagement with the environment is dependent upon several things: the intensity of a need, the intensity of our desire to meet a need, etc.