Marty Sierra-Perry
Centennial High School
ENGLISH 9-12
American Literature
Senior Honors English
Champaign Community School District #4
Email: sierrama@soltec.net
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- My C&I 335 major project
My Bio
I have been in education for over 25 years. During that time I have taught in elementary, middle school, and high school settings. In addition, I have worked with Teacher Professional development in the areas of writing, technology, and now, reading.
I have had the opportunity to look at education from a variety of perspectives. I have been a central office administrator, a building principal, and consultant on standards at the Illinois State Board of Education.
Growing up in a large family--I have four brothers and four sisters--prepared me for working with a variety of personalities. People who know me well describe me as loyal, inquisitive, and accomodating. My husband and son know how dedicated I am to my profession and respect my commitment.
I enjoy learning, especiallly its ambiguous quality. As a teacher, I marvel at the whole learning process.
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My educational and professional objectives are organized around my perception of myself as a life-long learner. In order to meet my responsibility to teach well, I must continue to develop my knowledge base. Rather than view my students as students of English, I view them as students of learning. As a professional educator for over twenty-five years, I also want to support new and veteran teachers in their efforts to create informed, authentic, and learner-centered curriculum and instruction.I am fortunate that my content area, English, provides a rich venue for inquiry-based experiences. Structuring experiences for students in my classroom that develop a sense of efficacy and confidence in their ability to guide their own learning is important to me.
I want to continue to explore the influence that technology has in informing learners of effective strategies for learning. Thus far, I have seen students who have not seen themselves as writers and thinkers adjust their perceptions as they use technology to complete research-based explorations in reading, writing, thinking, viewing, and sharing their discoveries within the English curriculum.
Teaching and learning create a layer of self-knowledge that encourages political action to change the ways in which I as a teacher and learner choose to perceive my role in the larger educational community. I see participation in the Master of Education program in Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform providing a framework that addresses my desire to keep current in the art and craft of teaching, to integrate technology in teaching and learning, and to apply my new learning to assist students and teachers in becoming confident and critical learners.
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The links that I have on my course pagewould help most students of English.
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Course Activity Three: Proposal Critiques
Course Activity Four: Computer Resources
Course Activity Five: Critically Reading the Web
Course Activity Six: Open Source
Course Activity Seven: Exploring Emerging Technologies
Course Activity Eight: History
Course Activity Nine: Literacies
Course Activity Ten: Access
Course Activity Eleven: Policy (no assignment)
Course Activity Twelve: Evaluation
Course Activity Thirteen:Final Project
Course Activity Fourteen: Reflections
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