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 Welcome to My EDT 3010 Portfolio! I am a teacher candidate at Metro State majoring in Modern Languages (Spanish) for K-12 Education. I hope to work in upper middle school or high school after graduating. I have already spent a year teaching ELL with an emergency license in Basalt, CO, as well as substitute teaching for a year all throughout the Roaring Fork Valley (Basalt - Glenwood Springs). I completely fell in love with teaching after my year at Basalt Middle School and am excited to be so close to having a classroom of my own again! During my time at Metro, I have found that collaborating with colleagues from other content areas provides great opportunities for me to align my instruction across content areas and make the material more meaningful for my students. This has also granted me other perspectives from which to evaluate my own content area, as well as the content from other areas. I completely enjoy my field experiences because not only do I get to observe amazing teachers, make connections with kids and develop my own skills as a teacher, but also because I have learned so many techniques, tools, and resources to use in my own classroom.

On a personal note, I love to bike, spend time with my daughter, Victoria, and, of course, speak Spanish! I have found that speaking another language has opened so many doors. Not only am I able to speak with another 400+ million people in the world, but I'm able to learn about and better understand their cultures and traditions. I have been able to explore so many more movies (without subtitles!), music, books and countries just by learning one other world language. Imagine what I could do by learning more world languages!