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My name is Aletha McCord. Greenville, Texas is my home town. I was born in Dallas, Texas. My family moved to Greenville when I was three. I moved back to Dallas when I was twenty six. While in Dallas I met my husband, Bill. We moved back to Greenville, where we have resided for the last twenty years. We have a son, Mike, and a daughter Kim. Kim has blessed us with three beautiful grandchildren. Heather is nineteen, Mathew is seventeen, and Baylor is six years old. Heather has given us one beautiful, great grandchild, Rylan, age, one week.

Teaching Philosophy

As an educator it is essential that I know, by the grace of God, the importance of helping each child to release their individual, God given potential to learn and use knowledge to benefit their futures, and that I teach to this goal. Every child has the ability to comprehend materials at some level. Also, every child has the ability to increase knowledge by developing learning habits that best suit their needs.

The teaching process has to include different strategies to suit individual differences and abilities in order to promote independent study and comprehension of basics and problem solving. The use of manipulatives, hands on activities, projects related to other subjects where math would be an essential part of that subject, such as Physics, and study groups, to name a few, are all ways of developing a child's intrinsic abilities to study and learn.

As a teacher, I am responsible for knowing each of my students individually. Learning names is only the beginning. I must learn my student's individual abilities, by testing frequently. I need to create a comfortable atmosphere in the classroom. To reduce the stress that comes from not understanding a concept, I must be an encourager and a mentor.

The end result, I pray, will be a more confident, knowledgeable student, who not only knows how to work a problem, but also understands the concepts of the material and is able to put those concepts to use.

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