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Current Position: Ex: Kindergarten teacher, Resident sub, Instructional aide, fifth grade teacher

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Hi everyone! My name is Jordan Kwong and I am currently an afterschool teacher in El Monte. I teach 3rd-5th at my current job, but I am open to teaching any grade 1st-5th in the future.

Through this course, I hope to learn various effective instructional and assessment strategies for reading and language arts. With this knowledge, I can adapt my teaching strategies to the diversity of my students.

An interesting fact about me is that I have never had a brain freeze or been stung by a bee before.

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Hello! My name is Elizabeth Lopez, I am currently a stay at home mom. However, I was a university intern and did teach 6th grade math and science for a semester. It was a great experience but I definitely would much rather teach younger grades. TK-3rd grade would be ideal for me. I was an aide for preschool and loved working with younger children.

I hope to learn strategies that will allow me to effectively teach young children how to read. I would also like to learn how to facilitate reading comprehension.

An interesting fact about me is that one of my essays, an ethnography regarding the digital divide in immigrant communities during the pandemic was added to a book and recently published by Penn State. So I guess, I am published :)

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Hello, my name is Xueqi Zhou. I am a Pre-K/Kindergarten Mandarin teacher in Alhambra. I have loved reading since I was a child. I enjoy all kinds of books. From this class, I hope to learn how to inspire children's interest in learning. I also hope to recapture the joy of reading that I experienced in my childhood. Nowadays, I work long hours and have little time to read. In the past year, I have rarely read, but I find videos summarizing books on social media and watch them while cooking.

An interesting fact about me is that I read The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe last week, and I loved it. I plan to read more of Edgar Allan Poe's books this week.

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Hello everyone, this is Wen Chen, you can call me by my English name Flower.

Current Position: Fifth grade Mandarin teacher
Current District: Monrovia
What you hope to learn and get out of this course: How to encourage my students read in Mandarin! Seems very hard when you read in different language. I did book club last year but it wasn't very successful like their english book club. I want to learn some strategies about how yo create book club for a foreign language!
Interesting Fact about me: I love little kids. I prefer teaching TK but now fell in love with Fifth grader. I have danced since I was four years old. I am very funny.

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Hello everyone, my name is Mariah Puente.

Current Position: Substitute Teacher Assistant in TK programs
Current District: I do not work in one assigned district but rather many places around the Los Angeles Area.
If not teaching, desired grade level: I would like to work with 2nd or third grade students in the future.
What you hope to learn and get out of this course: I hope to learn how to spark a love of reading and joy in reading in my students. I don't think I experienced it much in my elementary years as i only read for assignments not in my own free time. However, I do believe that certain experiences that children have in their K-12 years in regard to reading will encourage them to be lifetime lovers of reading. Even though I didn't really have much of that experience in elementary, I have it now through listening to audiobooks and I hope to share that joy with my students.
Interesting Fact about me:

An interesting fact about me is that I just got married this past February to my high school sweetheart of nine years.

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Hello everyone!

My name is Ilene, and I currently work for a nonprofit organization called LEARN. Specifically, I work with High School students in an afterschool program where we offer general tutoring, clubs, field trips and food. The district in which I work for is Whitter District. I also majored in Liberal Studies here at Cal State LA where I received my BA this past May, my dream job is to work at an Elementary School with 3rd-5th grade kiddos.

I hope to learn as much as possible on how to get my students to want to read but also enjoy what they are reading in a fun effective way.

One interesting fact about me is I love Disneyland and Food!

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Current Position: Hello Everyone! My name is Elizabeth De Florencio. I am currently in my third semester in the teaching credential program in where I also just briefly graduated from CSULA. I do not have any in school experience however I am always surrounded by children and would babysit, tutor and as well have some younger siblings. As I am on my journey of becoming a future educator it allowed me to see a different perspectives in how k-12 education system is working. I am a multiple subject credential so with that I do hope to teach kinder-2nd grade.

If not teaching, desired grade level:

My desired grade level would be between kinder -2nd grade mainly because of the fun activities I can hope to do with them. I also think it is one of the first core memory for young students to learn to love coming to school and being that educator for them.
What you hope to learn and get out of this course:

Through this course I hope to learn new strategies, concept, and activities I can do with my future classroom for this reading and language arts as well in learning how I can support students if they have difficulty.

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Some interesting facts about me would be I am a huge disney adult. I try to go at least every year in the summer with my best-friend which has basically became a tradition with both of us . Another interesting fact about me would be I actually majored in sociology as an undergrad and was in my third year of college to fully decide to join the credential program to become a teacher.

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My current position is substitute teacher in the district of etiwanda in San Bernardino county. In the future I would like to teach third grade in the district I am working for. I hope that after this class I can become a better reader myself for my students and me alike. An interesting fact about me is that I love Starbucks but hate pumpkin spice lattes.

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Hi everyone! My name is Madison Soto.

Current Position: I am a recreational leader at an after-school program, a substitute teacher, and a delivery driver for my family's business.

Current district: I work at West Covina Unified School District.

Desired grade level (not teaching): I would love to teach third or fourth grade. I am also open to second grade as well.

What I hope to learn and get out of this course: I hope that I can be better prepared for the RICA. I get nervous when it comes to big tests.

Interesting fact about me: I have traveled to 13 countries.

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Current Position: Hi everyone! I recently graduated this past May and I am in my second semester of the credential program. The only in class experience I have is 25 hour observations from a first and third grade class. I enjoyed every minute of it and am excited to obtain more experience.

Desired grade level: My desired grade level to teach would be between 2nd and 3rd grade.

What you hope to learn and get out of this course: I hope to learn strategies to guide my students to the Joys of reading. Like some of my peers have mentioned I also did not enjoy reading in Elementary. I hope to change that for my students.

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An interesting fact about me is that I have 5 dogs!

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Current Position: I am currently a student intern at a local elementary school, completing hours for this credential program here at CSULA.
Current District: Alhambra
If not teaching, desired grade level: 1st grade is so much fun, it's definitely my favorite grade.
What you hope to learn and get out of this course: I hope to learn how to better help students whose first language is not English. I had a few students who spoke native languages and I struggled with how to help them understand English.
Interesting Fact about me: I love to crochet stuffed animals!

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Current Position: Hello Everyone! I'm Kelly Garcia. I'm currently in my third semester in the multiple-subject credential program. I'm currently working as a substitute teacher for grades K-5.
Current District:  Riverside Unified
If not teaching, desired grade level: 3rd Grade
What you hope to learn and get out of this course: I hope to learn how to structure effective reading lessons that encourage authentic engagement.
Interesting Fact about me: I am a jack of all trades, master of none. I love guitar, crochet, painting, physical media, and as of recently, kayaking :D I'm excited to learn alongside you all!

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Current Position: Hi, Everyone. I work at an elementary school in the Special Education department. I work with students from k-5th grade in an inclusion model.
Current District: I currently work for Pasadena Unified School District.
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What you hope to learn from this course: I hope to gain more strategies to help my students better.
Interesting Fact about me: A fact about me is that I work as a wedding coordinator on the weekends.

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Hello. I am currently working as a teacher's assistant in preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms at a private Montessori school in Pasadena. I hope to learn how to administer the various types of Reading/Language Arts. I want to know the best ways students can learn and enjoy reading. An interesting fact about me is that I love to create art. I’m working on publishing a coloring book called Nostalgia.

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Hello everyone! My name is Zitlalic Ponce and I recently left my Teacher Assistant position at a continuation high school to begin working as a TK/K Instructional Aide with LAUSD. I am not teaching, however, I have changed my mind and I would now like to work with 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-grade students. What I hope to learn and get out of this course is to learn new strategies that I could apply in my classroom to better support my future students in reading/language arts. An interesting fact about me is that I played volleyball in high school.

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Hello, my name is Bonnie Bernabe. Nice to meet everyone.

Current position: Teacher assistant

Current District: LAUSD

If not teaching, desired grade level:

2nd grade

What you hope to learn and get out of this course: Techniques and ideas on how to teach reading and language arts. There is so much to learn!