Q: What’s your definition of hard work?
A: My definition of hard work would be putting in your best effort that you can give.

Q: What is something you’d be happy doing every single day for the rest of your career?
A: Doing exactly what I am doing right now, teaching physical education.

Q: What personal strengths do you find especially helpful in your teaching?
A: One personal strength of mine is the time management. I always make sure I have enough time to do activities and lesson plans.

Q: Why did you want to become a gym teacher?
A: Gym was my favorite subject in school and I always loved it. And I actually wasn’t sure that I wanted to be a teacher until only few years ago I knew that I wanted to do something with sports, athletics. And I kind of fell into teaching.

Q: Have you ever been a substitute teacher in this school district? Or have you ever worked in another district as a PE teacher?
A: My very first year being able to experience teaching I was a substitute for Physical Education here.

Q: What can you do to meet the needs of students who do not speak English?
A: To meet the needs of students who do not speak English, to work with the ESL teacher and figure out strategies to try and I can incorporate to help them.

Q: What were you like as a student?
A: As a middle school student, I was very, very shy. I did all of my homework and everything else that was needed. I was kind of to myself.

–April 28, 2017–