Playbook by Drew

I was a teacher for 7 years: 1 year of teaching skiing at Mount Snow, 2 years of teaching and coaching at Northwood School, 1 year of student teaching at NYU, and 3 years of teaching and coaching at Belchertown High School.

This movie also made me thinK ABOUT the importance of education and the meaning of education. I believe that education is about: learning the student, teaching the student, and the relationship between learning and teaching. This might sound trivial but I see it like this. It is my personal and professional goal to gain an understanding of each student (the learning) in order to develop effective teaching strategies that meet their individual needs (the teaching). I believe it is important to learn about the student to be able to effectively teach that student. In addition, an assessment of their skills or knowledge will allow me to better understand their learning needs. I still hold this teaching philosophy and have grown and strengthened in many ways.

New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York, NY, August 2014 Admitted into the Clinically Rich Integrated Science Program, an innovative NYU Urban Teacher Residency Master of Arts in Secondary Science Education GPA 4.0 University of Massachusetts, Commonwealth Honors College, Amherst, MA, May 2010 B.A, magna cum laude with departmental honors, Chemistry, Minor in History, Cumulative GPA 3.51 LICENSURE & ENDORSEMENTS Massachusetts Academic License, MA License #: 482497 Initial License in Chemistry, 8-12 Sheltered English Immersion Endorsement

I was a student for 21 years: 2 years of pre-k, 2 years of kindergarten, 8 years of elementary and middle school, 4 years of high school, 4 years of college, and 1 year of graduate school.

I am still a teacher AND a student! I teach others about my disease and learn more about this disease everyday! I believe it is important to learn about the student (in this case the disease), to be able to teach that student (you the reader) by sharing my story with you. Although I may not be teaching or learning in a classroom, for me the understanding of the disease is the learning as a student and sharing my story is the teaching as a teacher!