Fun Facts

I am a member of the New York University Varsity Cross Country and Track Team. I love running and devote approximately 30 hours a week to training and competing. Running has helped me discover and explore many parts of the city in a relaxing and exciting way. Not only do I enjoy the actual act of running, but I also love being apart of a team and working with my teammates to reach individual and group goals.

About Me

I am currently a Childhood and education/new-york/new-york">Special Education major at NYU. I was not always certain that I wanted to become a teacher. However, through my experiences at NYU and AmeriCorps, my desires to become a teacher have been solidified. I take extreme interest in all of my education and child psychology classes at NYU. Despite having to wake up at six in the morning, I love every second of my time spent in my student teaching placements. I constantly reflect on my time as a camp counselor for homeless children through AmeriCorps.; although the job was demanding and difficult, I miss and think about the children I worked with often. I find great joy working with children and look forward to my future career as an educator.

This academic school year, I have been placed into two New York City Public Schools as a student teacher. During student teaching I frequently work with small groups of students, particularly students who struggle with the given material. I also regularly work with individual students who need extensive help on certain subject areas. When I am not working with small groups or individual students, I monitor student progress and assist students who have questions and need further explanation of the concepts the class is studying.

I believe it is imperative for students to have a deep and full understanding of the materials they are learning about. Encouraging the use of drills and fact memorization are not adequate teaching strategies. In order to help students gain true understanding of a concept it is important to use concrete examples, such as manipulatives in mathematics. It is also important to present the information in a variety of ways. Teaching using multiple forms of representation will increase the likelihood of true student understanding. Relating materials to real world contexts, such as teaching phonics through meaningful texts, also fosters deep and full understanding of academic concepts.