Hello everyone! My name is Tonia Shmordok, and I attended teachers' college at Brock's Hamilton campus in 2001-2002. So I have been teaching for 5 years. I am certified as a J/I English Specialist, and have worked mainly teaching Grade 7 English and Social Studies. My first year I taught in Ontario (Brampton) and got married. My husband and I then re-located to Calgary, Alberta (before the big boom!) and I worked as a Waldorf teacher at a Steiner school. I moved on to an ESL Charter school the next year (charter schools are unique to Alberta...publicly funded schools with an independent board and a "private school" philosophy). There I taught the regular curriculum using ESL strategies to students from 23 different countries. Now, I find myself in New Zealand! I currently live in Auckland where it is winter right now, but people are still wearing t-shirts. If any of you are looking for overseas opportunities I know heaps (as they say in New Zealand) about the immigration process and New Zealand is dying for experienced teachers.
But we miss home tremendously and have booked our flights for August. I hope to teach in the secondary panel and am now pursuing work in the Midland/Tiny Township area - proving to be tricky!
While teaching, I find that i can get very wrapped up in an English lesson and become so passionate about getting my students to "see the light" that I have come to realize I must pursue this path. And so I am becoming an English teacher!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment