I
like Open School because I like teaching math and I really like the
personal relationships that I have with the kids. I've been here since
2002, which was also my first year as an educator.
My favorite
thing to do at Open School is to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards with the kids.
Outside of school I like to work out, work on my house, work my other
job. My other job is being a program counselor at a group home for
developmentally disabled adults.
I get my best ideas when I am mowing the lawn.
I
became a teacher because I was sick of being a student, and since I
liked teaching, I became a teacher. Someday I will probably go back to
being a student again. Later in life I would like to be a physics
professor at a college or university.
The best class I ever took
was a combination between a laboratory computing class and a continuous
applied math class. In that class I got to work with Fourier Trans
forms. With Fourier Transforms a computer can do huge amounts of
multiplications in a very short amount of time. The personal computer
is the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
An
event that changed my life was when I got to do research on Transparent
Conducting Oxides (TCO). TCO's, such as zinc oxide, are used to control
the amount of light that reaches an object, for example a solar panel.
The
hardest part about my childhood was when my parents got divorced and my
mother married an abusive step-father. Fortunately, that situation only
lasted for a short time. It was also difficult several years later when
I was fifteen and I had to leave home to live on my own.
My
parents always taught me about the value of education. My favorite
teacher was Mr. Wicker, my high school math teacher. He taught me that
it wasn't good enough to just be smart, that you also had to work hard
as well.
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