Name:

Maria D. Godina

Grade Teaching:

4th Grade Dual Language

Education:

Masters in Education

72 Middle Childhood License

023 Bilingual License

777 Regular Education

Professional Experience:

15 years of teaching experience within the classroom

10 years in leadership skills and community involvement

7 years in teaching parenting classes in the homes of at risk families

4 years as a Sunday School Superintendent

Professional Educator Dedication Statement:

“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in a classroom.  It’s my personal approach that creates the climate.  It’s my daily mood that makes the weather; as a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a person’s life miserable or joyous.  I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.  I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.  In all situations, it is m y response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or de-humanized.” (Haim Ginott)

“The true function of the teacher is to create the favorable conditions for self-learning… True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it.  One might say that the teacher teaches best when teaches least”.  “It is the teacher’s mission…by sympathy, by example, and by every means of influence-by objects for the senses, by facts for the intelligence-to excite the mind of the pupils, to stimulate their thoughts…  “The greatest of teachers said:  The seed is the word.” “The true teacher stirs the ground and sows the seed”.   (J. Milton)

Making it possible to learn.

Remembers each student has his/her individuality.

 Success and no less is acceptable.

. It all has an end, it gives us a new beginning.

Goodness and knowledge is in each student.

Opening doors when one closes.

Dedicate my time and talents to make a positive change.

Independence is a working process for all.

Never gives up.

A+ is a high grade in school, but an appropriate character and attitude takes you higher in life.

Contact:

EBSOLA

262-605-2300