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Kate

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你好！（Hi!） I’m a Junior at Vassar College and I’m majoring in Chinese with a correlate in Education. I just completed a semester abroad in China, studying Chinese at Beijing University. My goal is to become a high school Chinese teacher in the United States, but I also plan on teaching English in China. I am going to have my first experience teaching English this summer in a school just outside of Shanghai. I was influenced to become a Chinese teacher by my high school Chinese teacher. She is a caring woman with a spirited approach to teaching. She has taught me that there is so much to learn from Chinese culture and China also has a lot to learn from America. With China’s increasing development, the ability to speak Chinese is becoming more and more prevalent. I also think the language is incredibly interesting and full of history. I would love to share my passion for Chinese with students and hope that I can make as much of an impact on them as my teacher did on me.

 

Here is a video about a crazy experience I had in China:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaFHcpPWcng&feature=youtu.be

Bio: Amanda

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I like to laugh…

My name is Amanda. I was born on the central coast of California 21 years ago and now attend college in New York. I am a junior English major and am pursuing my secondary teaching certification. About my interests: I feel like my primary interest is academics, but in the rare moments when I am not busy with that, I like to dance and people watch. I also love to laugh, especially with friends, and when I really need to calm down and take time for myself, I paint my nails. I love my parents and try to at least text them everyday. I do not like candy that contains nuts. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but, at this moment, none greater than this: to maintain my sense of integrity and graduate from college.

Look! I made a digital sonnet:

 

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Mary This is my Bio. I am an ESL teacher at Morse Elementary school in Poughkeepsie, NY. I grew up in Woodstock NY. I have three older brothers and a sister and I am very close with my family. I have been married to my husband Ben for fourteen years and we have two beautiful sons, Nicky and Sammy who are 12 and 9.

I graduated from SUNY New Paltz, both undergrad and grad school. I studied abroad in Paris, France for one semester.  I love music, spending time with my friends and family, playing all kinds of sports, travelling, eating and being part of the community of New Paltz where I have lived for the past thirteen years.

 

My Bio

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Hi! My name is Kristen and I teach a third grade inclusion class at Warring School.  I am the special education teacher in the classroom. I have been teaching in the district for 4 years, although I have worked in a different building every year.

I started teaching in 2008 in a K-2 Special Ed Self Contained class with 8 students.  I taught in that room  for two years. The next year, I moved to a 5th grade inclusion class and now I am teach in 3rd grade.

Kristen

I graduated with my degree in History and Elementary Education from Wheelock College in Boston, MA in 2004.

I graduated from SUNY New Paltz with my Masters degree in Special Education in 2006.

I have a 3 year old yellow lab named Max, this is his attempt at dock diving.

Kristen

Emma’s Bio Post

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Sitting on a castle!

My name is Emma Schaeffer, and I’m a senior at Vassar College.  Last year I lived in Ireland for a while, which has a LOT of castles, so that’s where my picture comes from. There’s a lot of sheep, too, but they don’t like to pose. I’m studying English and Education here. I hope to write (poetry, but also just about anything) and teach middle or high school after I graduate. Right now I have a job as a writing center consultant here, which I love. If you want to learn more about what I do in my free time, click the video below:

Elysia: your TA!

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Elysia

Hello!

My name is Elysia and I have the distinct pleasure of working with this spring’s adolescent literacy class!

A little about myself: I graduated from Vassar last May with a major in Urban Studies and correlates in Elementary Education and American Politics. This past fall I completed my student teaching as a post-bac with the Dean’s program and have stuck around to continue my work with Residential Life and the Education Department. Since freshman year I have been lucky enough to work with the Vassar Education Department in several capacities and I’m very excited to be back working with Erin and all of you!

Feel free to contact me at anglover@vassar.edu with any questions or comments you may have about this site or the course more generally.

Past digital media experience includes digital photography, a culinary blog and a personal website for last summer’s cross country cycling trip with the organization Bike and Build.

 

 

Michelle’s Bio

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Hi! This is me!

Michelle Martineau, sophomore at Vassar College

The big thing you need to know about me: my favorite flavor of ice cream is Moose Tracks!

Seriously though:
I’ve lived in Alexandria, Virginia, a city right next to D.C., in the same house for my whole life. Ask me anytime and I’ll give you all the gossip on our little city. We have surprisingly small-town style politics for such a big place. It’s probably because we only have one high school for the whole city, T.C. Williams. You may remember it from that movie, Remember the Titans? Yep, that’s us. And we’re actually really terrible at football (like haven’t even won the homecoming game in 20 years bad) and don’t even get me started on all the other stuff…

But now I’m at Vassar. I’m majoring in Religion and I’m on the ski team here. I’ve also been tutoring with the VAST program for a couple years, so I’m sure you’ll be hearing stories about that. But enough about school! I like to be outside and have fun! So to achieve this lofty goal my boyfriend and I took month-and-a-half-long road trip this past summer. We went to a big music festival in Tennessee and then farmed our way home (by helping out on a couple small farms in exchange for room and board). Here’s a little bit of what we did:

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