I have been in the education field for twenty-seven years. The
first fifteen years of my career were spent teaching various grades
and classroom configurations at the elementary level. I moved
on to middle school when my daughters hit the teen years and again
taught a variety of grade levels and content areas. My first assignment
was teaching both traditional and at-risk math and language arts
to sixth, seventh and eighth graders. I spent another year teaching
seventh grade social studies and two years teaching sixth grade
language arts. After resigning from the public school system,
I spent a year as a student, brushing up on my computer skills.
I was hired at UWO as a supervisor for student teachers and interns.
Since that first year, I have not only continued in this capacity
but have also supervised clinical students, taught Individual,
School and Society, co-taught middle school and high school students
in the APPLE summer program held on campus, taught the Supervision
of Student Teachers course and taught an Introduction to Teaching
as a Career distance learning course through Continuing Ed.