Maria Garza Research Paper

Mrs. Maria Teresa Garza is a great example of discipline and persistence in accomplishing her dream of teaching. She has been a teacher for about twenty two and a half years until this day she's enjoying every moment of it. Throughout her years in the teaching industry, she's been in so many schools within the United Independent School District and even moved to a higher position. Starting off her first year in teaching, she taught second grade in Perez Elementary School teaching all subjects such as Math, Reading, Science, English, and History. She described it as “Fun, but yet challenging at first since it was my first year.” Although, it was a challenge to get the actual feel of being an educator, she made lots of fun activities teaching her students and hoping they would find the subjects compelling and accessible. Since then it became simple since she got a better understanding of it, she later moved to Los Obispos Middle School teaching for about eight and a half years. She taught Spanish where she says, “Middle school is a whole different perspective”, as

I came across and asked her on how do you describe excellence in teaching? She states, “Pay attention to their needs like what kind of assistance the kids need when learning the material, some students are fast genuine learners and the other half could be slow when it comes to certain learning material, it just depends on the students.” I couldn't agree with it more, it was well explained and suitable. To really become a lucrative teacher, is to show how much care you have with the students and to have everybody in the same paste. So when it comes to tests such as STAAR also known as the “State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness” (Student Assessment Division, Spring 2012) they'll be ready by then. And not to just pass the state exam, but to also get knowledge out of it because that's what it should really be all