My name is Joan Rudd and I am 47 yrs. old. I began pursuing my degree in English 30 years ago before I was married. I am just now going back and finishing my degree so that I can teach high school. I love to read and write and discuss books, poetry and literature of all kinds.
I plan to finish my degree the same year as my last child graduates high school and then I plan to teach and have the summers off to spend time with my 4 children, all of whom will still be in college.
As a teacher, I have been working as a substitute at Mountain View High School where my children go as well. I love working with this age of students and love the challenge of helping them prepare for college and their futures.
My teaching philosophy seems to be centered around helping the students understand why they should want to learn and how they can use this education in the future of their lives in so many ways. I want to promote the ability to think past the ordinary and expected, to get excited about wanting to learn for their own sake and not to please the teacher.
I want to help them be better reader, speakers writer and thinkers. There is too much apathy, too much poor grammar, too much inablity to communicate and to really think and apply knowledge to a broader base of life experiences.
I want to teach forward thinking, open mindedness, amd the value of learning and using knowledge to improve society, iprove literature and ideas and history, even if this means just helping their own children be better learners.
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