elementaryteacher
elementaryteacher
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First, I want to let everyone know I can be reached at elementaryteacheroverseas@gmail.com.
Three years after I came to Morocco, an overseas private American School opened in my city. While my training was for Secondary History and Social Studies, all that was available in the beginning was Kinderdergarten, which I taught for three years. I subsequently taught Grade 3 for an additional ten years.
Now I run a home business, Expert Elementary Tutor. Soon I will be giving speeches to teachers at various cities in Morocco, and hope to be teaching in a new English-language foreign universtiy which is soon opening in my city.
Before taking this blog public, I carefully searched through and checked my posts to make sure that all are appropriate for a public blog.
When I started this blog, I felt the need to blog under a pen name. I chose "Eileen," a name I've always liked since I was a child. Now that I'm no longer with the school, I feel it's time to blog under my own name, Mary Mimouna. However, all of the past posts on this blog, written by "Eileen" were actually written by me.
I started this education blog to share several things with readers. First, I wanted to share what is going on in the minds of eight- and nine-year-old third-graders both in the Middle East, and pretty much universally in every country. Second, I wanted to share my philosophies of education and my ideas/decisions as an educator, which I made on a daily basis. Third, I wanted to introduce readers to differences and problems teachers in overseas American schools face, which are often different problems from schools located in America. Sometimes these problems are universal, while others are not. Last, I wanted to introduce American readers to some cultural differences which teachers face, teaching in American schools overseas.
I have been teaching throughout three decades, and continuously for a decade and a half. My educational philosophy has always been that the “class work” is only half of what a teacher should do. The other half is to teach students how to be caring human beings with enough self-confidence to succeed in life. With every classroom dispute between classmates, with every homework assignment or test grade, and with every classroom experience comes a special chance to teach something “more.” In teaching elementary students, I always felt I had one of the most important jobs in the world–-that of “molding little people” to become the next adult generation.
Even though I am no longer in an American school, I am continuing to tutor and teach. I still have much to share on education, and am continuing this blog as my readers urged me to do.
Personally, I am married to a local Moroccan man, having met him on a vacation to this country. My husband has a managerial office job. Together we have a teenage daughter who speaks three languages. --English, Arabic, and French.
As time allows, I plan to post at least one entry per week, and possibly more. My hope is that my readers will learn something useful from my blog, and I would love to have reader feedback through comments.
Sincerely,
Mary Mimouna (aka "Eileen")
Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas
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