Education
- BA History, University of California, San Diego
- Minor in Visual Arts/Photography, University of California, San Diego
- Single Subject Teaching Credential, Social Studies, San Diego State University.
Goals
My present professional goals involve obtaining my teaching credential and pursuing a career of teaching children the skills they need to be successful through the study of history. I hope to be in a situation that allows me to incorporate technology into daily classroom life.
Background
I was born in Chicago but moved to San Diego at an early age. All of my education, including my time at UCSD and SDSU, has been in San Diego County. While history is my scholastic emphasis, I've pursued photography with equal vigor. Working as a Photojournalist at two college papers, UCSD Guardian and SDSU Daily Aztec, and the North County Blade-Citizen gave me a taste of the media and let me see into the high, low, and ordinary moments of people's lives in the communities of San Diego County.It was the idea of education that drew me to photojournalism, to show the public the world that surrounds them. While these prospects have been inviting, the nature of the media as we know it today does not allow for the idealized education that being in a school provides. The classroom allows for a much more pure (though not perfect) transfer of information and information processing skills.
Other Interesting Things
At every open opportunity I take to the road and travel. In recent years I have camped up and down the entire west coast, spent time in Ireland, and experienced a whirlwind trip of continental Europe and England. My love of the outdoors and the wilderness is only shadowed by my devotion to my fiance and traveling companion, Brenda, who will become my wife (and I her husband) this summer.Other interests include continuing to pursue my photographic urges through nature photography and black and white printing. During my summer and holiday spare time, I try to read as much as possible, exploring fictional worlds and the lives of people who have helped shape history in the United States and the world.
Links
The following are Web Pages that I have written and/or designed.
Family F Homepage - The
Fantastics Family present staff and student homepages, student work, lesson
plans, and field trips.
Responsibility
Unit - An interdisciplinary lesson developed by myself and other four
student teachers at O'Farrell. This page reviews what will be done and ties
the disciplines together. Listed below are three lessons that I created for
it.
Citizenship
and Responsibility - A one week lesson that explores what one needs to
recognize to become a responsible citizen in the community, nation, and
world.
Responsibility
in America - This two week lesson examines United States foreign policy
throughout history and looks at the perceived and real responsibilities of
each era.
Environmental
Responsibility - A three week lesson that has students examine resources
on the web to identify environmental problems and attempt to come up with
solutions.
Feudalism
in Japan and Europe - A WebQuest which has the students look at the feudal
societies in Japan and Europe through documents on the WWW.
Symbols
and Symbolism - A interdisciplinary lesson that I co-taught with Linda
Logan at O'Farrell. Examples of student work and details of the lesson are
show.
Who Is Telling Us
What? - A 6 week interdisciplinary unit/course that focuses on the media
and the coming elections.
African Mask
Project - An example of student work.