I enjoy molding children into successful learners. I find teaching extremely rewarding. Patience, perseverance, diligence and discernment have become my companions in the classroom to improve the service I provide for students.  I have been teaching for twenty-two years. I have been teaching English Learners for seven years. English learners are students who speak English as a second language. My students and I work hard each day for each of them to become competent in standard-based curriculum emphasizing academic and social language development.