Ross,Sheryl,introduction

Hello Professor and Peers, I am proud and excited to have graduated this past year from Southern Oregon University at the age of 52. I have a BS in Elementary Education with an Oregon Teacher License Pre K-8 with an ESOL Endorsement. Now, as a student in the Masters of Education/SpEd Program at SOU, I will continue my 55-year plan in education, working towards a secondary license, then a PEd. in education leadership and social justice. During my twenty-one years in the field of education as an assistant in speech and language, general education and exceptionalities classrooms from Oregon to Hawaii and back to Oregon after nine years, it is time to match the life-experience with credentials. I have also given thirty-two years as a parent of eleven adult children, with diverse exceptionalities and challenges. I have a family of various ethnicities, cultures and languages and have worked well within multicultural communities. My heart and mind desires to understand cultural and language complexities so our students can enjoy reading, mathematics, the arts and personal growth in an academic atmosphere. My hope is to continually learn and have a hand in our students’ success. My husband and I enjoy visiting our children and eight grandchildren around the world. We also enjoy many outdoor activities, ocean sailing and just being together. We have moved temporarily to our RV from Medford to Pendleton, Oregon as my husband works in the surrounding area on wind-farms in Idaho and Pendleton. I am currently on the sub-list at for the Umatilla-Morrow County, Intermountain ESD, I completed my ELL requirements winter term, and I am now in the special education resource room classroom spring term to complete my 180 practicum hours at Grove Elementary in Milton-Freewater; the goal to graduate in June. I have a passion to continually learn and to choose a career within the education system on the state and federal level, using my voice of social justice for quality, equal-education for students and teachers. I love teaching and was offered a job as a SpEd teacher at Ketchikan High School, Alaska, and need to make a decision this week. I am looking forward to this year and wish the very best to all my peers. Thank you. With Warm Regards, Sheryl Ross 808-896-3501

My day in the good life~ as a wife- teacher- grandmother

Metacognitive Strategies for Teachers and Their Students: Teaching students metacognitive awareness strategies can only be facilitated with our own understanding of the effectiveness of metacognitive startegies in our classrooms. Ever since I took an ed psych class at SOU last year I have wanted to study and infuse cognitive strategies throughout all instruction. Teaching our students how they think and learn most effectively empowers our students. This topic will venture into both teaching teachers what metacognition means, how to implement in any instruction and curriculum and the value that drives students' success. I am excited to develop a Wiki site my peers and I would truely use.
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