what are your best characteristics? AW yourself.

Heather R

I am very creative.  Not only artistic-creative (which I am very), but in my teaching.  Here's an example: I am going to be teaching a memoir of a boy soldier.  As he was being rehabbed, the nurse earned his trust by buying him a walkman with rap tapes (he liked rap music before the war).  I looked up the songs he mentions and designed an activity about connecting the lyrics to his experience.  I also found a cool article explaining the use of rap music as therapy with at-risk youths, and there are some videos on rap therapy with famous rappers to accompany it.  It will make a great couple days' worth of lesson plans connecting with the text and taking away a greater understanding of the psychological recovery of the boy soldier.

I am also very well-read on many topics.