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Lisa
Parker |
| After graduating from
Washington State University in 1978 I began my career teaching first grade. My years of
experience have all been in the primary grades, teaching preschool, Kindergarten and
first. I also had the opportunity to spend a year teaching English to students in Japan.
For the last 20 years I have been teaching Kindergarten in both half-day and full-day
programs in Phoenix, Arizona. Outside of
the classroom I enjoy spending time with my husband and two boys. |
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Linda
Burns |
| This year I will begin my 33th year
teaching Kindergarten in various settings, both public and private. I have worked in the
regular classroom as well as with Special Education Kindergarten students as a travelling
teacher. For the past 21 years I have been teaching Kindergarten in Phoenix, Arizona.
Originally from New Jersey I am a graduate of the University of Delaware. I
have two sons, who are now grown and on their own. In my free time I enjoy playing golf. |
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Eighteen years
ago we found ourselves both teaching Kindergarten at the same school in adjoining rooms.
Compatible with our teaching styles we immediately began to team-teach. We have used a
variety of methods for teaching basic skills, including work sheets, workbooks, letter of
the week, and literature studies. We noticed one year that the children were very excited
and acquired their skills more readily when they each created their own versions of a
piece of literature. Parents also saw the excitement and interest their children showed in
their own work and asked us if and when we would be making another book. This enthusiasm
and increased mastery of skills led us to adopt the philosophy that skills can be taught
through literature in a more meaningful way than through workbooks. From this philosophy,
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