Amy

Certified Tutor

I love to teach, and I love to work with kids. I want to help them be successful in every aspect of their academic life. I went to the Saint Louis University and received a bachelor's degree in general education I minored in English and Adult Contemporary Spirituality, which was sort of by accident, I just really enjoyed those classes, and the Professors who taught them. Then I went to the University of Missouri-St. Louis and obtained my first Masters of Education in Elementary Education.

That was a challenge even for a person who loves school and learning new information. And it could have been that I also had just started my teaching career, so I was also learning how to be a teacher and going to school, really hard school too. so I was teaching 6th grade all subjects at a PreK to 6th grade elementary school. and I had relatively small class sizes like in my second year, I only had 11 students. And they were all really good kids. so it was more like we were just hanging out and discussing really important topics and sharing our thoughts on them with each other. I wish every new teacher could have a year like that. I taught at that school a few more years and then I kind of thought to myself wouldn't it be nice if instead of teaching and preparing 20 lessons a week I only had to do 5 really good ones? So I went to teach Language Arts at a middle school. and I was assigned to teach 6th grade again, and I was happy with that. It is a whole different teaching experience to have 27 6th graders for one 90 minute class than ten to 15 for the whole day. And then have 25 entirely different kids for the next 90 minute class. and then I had 23 you got more new kids for another 90 minutes. that is a lot of names to learn!!! And... sooooo many papers to read and correct. and record and keep track of and then hand back, then pick up off the floor and throw away, sigh. Despite all that I had 3 other 6th grade ELA teachers to hangout with and we all became great friends. well after a year and a half I started to get that itch. you know the one you try and try but can't quite reach. Well I found out it was the need to learn something new! So, I enrolled in Park University located in of all places, Parkville. MO.

I started June of 2019 an online cohort program to get a Masters Degree in Educational Technology. I had always considered myself to be rather good at working with technology, at my first school I was the technology liaison with our district IT department, I was the person who set up and helped monitor the new programs our students used on their iPad. It was like that at the middle school too. and in the medical office I worked in before I became a teacher. But this class was like wow, so cool. we learned so much new and amazing things to do with technology that I had no idea even existed. I learned about teaching students how to record and publish their very own podcasts, how to take a PowerPoint or Google slide and make them into a narrative movie. I learned how to make my own interactive games for my class to play. Oh the places I learned I could go. Then there came the PANDEMIC and one Friday I told my kids to have a great weekend, and that turned into a half year of no school, and a year off Google Meet or Zoom school. But I now had a year of my Technology program done and I a good teacher became a Rock Star teacher. So much so that my school asked me a 6th year teacher to lead our school in professional development. for extra pay! Oh, how I love the power of learning. I graduated from my Technology program in August of 2021 with a perfect GPA of 4.0!!

Now I know you have read a great deal of information about me, and how super nerdy I am about learning and you have to be saying OMG what is up. I want to inspire you to become just as nerdy about learning new things as I am. and I know you have heard the saying that knowledge is power.

Well, I am living proof that learning can be fun and inspiring and helpful and exciting. Let your inner nerd out with me.