meet+the+teacher

 Hometown: I was born and raised in Bucaramanga, Colombia. I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1993 and graduated from The National Technical University of Buenos Aires with a Bachelor's degree on Teaching English as a Foreign language majored in Elementary education. I taught English as a Foreign Language in Argentina for 7 years, I then moved to Fayetteville, NC in 2005 as an International exchange teacher. I have taught English as a Second Language in Harnett county since 2005. I am getting my Master's degree in Instructional Technology through East Carolina University. I have recently started working as the Technology Facilitator at Johnsonville Elementary School in Harnett county, NC

Hobbies: I enjoy dancing, cooking, exercising, finding out about new software of technology that I can incorporate in my lessons with my students. Spare time: I am part of the colombian folk group called " Colombian Pride'. We participate every year in the International Folk festival held in Fayetteville every last weekend of September. I also LOVE to cook traditional colombian dishes! I make empanadas, arepas, arroz con pollo, tamales, sancocho, obleas, aji, etc. My husband and my children love it too! Favorites: Spending time with my family in New york and my immediate family. Skyping with my family in Argentina. We do it all the time! My favorite color is purple, my favorite author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My favorite thing to do: dance!  I am a fully bilingual educator that loves helping the hispanic community in my school by offering services such as translating and interpreting, hoping to be a role model for my students. I Love to incorporate a lot of technology in my classes. I believe we have to teach our students skills that are needed in this new century. Many elementary and secondary school children are gamers and emerging tech-savvy digital natives. They crave engaging experiences with new technologies, and today they want to learn socially and collaboratively, using digital tools that allow them to participate in learning communities and to produce media and knowledge. My students are currently working with iPods in our ESL class. They absolutely love it! They are also creating movies with iMovie and podcasts with Garage band. I strongly believe in the Task Based Learning methodology and I am currently the only Task Based Learning trainer in Harnett county. I am also training teachers to use iPods, iMovie and garage band to create content for their lessons. Teachers that attend this trainings are given professional continuing Educating credits for their license renewal. I hope you can enjoy this website and don't hesitate to contact me!