About Me
“An educator’s job is to shape the minds of the future”
Education:
- University of British Columbia: Bachelor Of Education, Self-Regulated Middle Years with a specialization in secondary science.
- University of British Columbia: Bachelor of Science, majors in Chemistry, Life Sciences and Earth and Ocean Sciences
Languages:
- English
- Farsi
- Basic French
- Basic Spanish
Experiences:
- Teacher Intern at Crofton House School, with full responsibility of teaching and planning in a collaborative classroom environment, school wide supervision of students, outdoor education and co-curricular participation, as well as teacher-on-call responsibilities in grade junior kindergarten to grade 7, Physical Education, Fine Arts, French and Learning Resources.
- Moody Middle School grade 6 and 7 Student Teacher, successfully completing a 10 week practicum designing, implementing and assessing various units in a range of different subjects in addition to involvement in after school activities.
- North Vancouver Cultural and Recreation Commission birthday party leader, day camp leader and the teacher of the Red Cross Safe+ Sound Training Program.
- Volunteer Sunday School Teacher at the Zoroastrian Society of British Columbia.
Reasons for Being a Teacher:
An educator has a huge influence on the life of their students. My first influence was my grade four teacher. Her enthusiasm and passion, made me, an ELL student, excited about wanting to share my knowledge with students one day. Later in life I was influenced by my Chemistry 11 teacher. In my Chemistry 11 class, I knew that I enjoyed science, especially chemistry. I followed that passion in post secondary studies. As life got busy with labs and courses, I lost sight of being a teacher, and became focused on science. A friendly reminder was given to me while I took two special education courses at UBC during my final year of my undergraduate degree. Having the privilege of sitting in these courses, taught by a teacher, I was reminded of the grade four dream that I had. From then, I took the step into applying and completing the BEd program at UBC. Till this day, I think I have made the best, most noble choice, and am privileged to go into a classroom and teach, but also learn along side of my students.
This is why I call this a “Continuous Learning Journey”.
Aspirations:
- I aspire to be an educator who believes in everyone, and has high expectations of each individual.
- I aspire to learn and reflect from practice to improve myself and my strategies.
- I aspire to create an inclusive environment which includes all cultures, languages and special needs.
- I aspire to travel as much as I can and learn about different cultures and customs.
- I aspire to become fluent in French.
- I aspire continue being kind and compassionate.
Interests:
- Traveling
- Learning and using new technology
- Music
- Dancing
- Long walks
- Sunsets
- Learning new languages