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Future goals and objectives...

All of us have goals and we live to accomplish them every day. One of my biggest goals in life is to get my Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education/Spanish and start teaching. After I get my bachelor’s I would love to start working on my master’s degree. I’ve been living in the treasure valley for a little bit over 10 years and I have witnessed the growth and demand there is for educators and new schools. I want to stay and work in this area for sure because I love this state and I also want to give back to my community. Besides my professional goals, I’m also working on my personal goals some of them are living a healthier life style, reducing my stress, and spending more time with my children. Family to me is everything and my children are my priority, every decision I make I do it because of them and only for them. I want them to grow in a safer community and have great role models to look up to that’s one of the reasons why I want to teach. I also want them to look back and say “If my mom did it I can do it too” 


I often visualize my classroom and think about what type of teacher I want to be, they say the more that if you visualize your dreams and aspirations the bigger the possibilities are. I want my students to feel safe in my classroom, I don’t want them to feel judged or be bullies. I want to create an environment where they can ask as many questions as they want and be willing to work with me and the rest of the students. My classroom should feel like home, I want to have a lot of cultural decorations such as flags, pictures, and souvenirs from all the different Latin American countries and of course Spain. My classroom will also have a reading space where students can relax and read books in Spanish to help gain vocabulary and refined their language acquisition skills

A teacher's vision...

When you enter my classroom, you will see the flags from all the Latin American countries and a bigger one from Spain, the reason that flag is bigger it’s because Spain is considered the motherland of this language. I have a couch on one of the corners next to a bookcase filled with books from all levels of Spanish for my students to read, I call it “Rincón de lectura” (Reading corner). I have 30 individual desks lined up, 15 on each side of the room for a better class interaction between the students and me. I have one white board and one smart board that I use for my interactive lessons, I love it! The use of technology is very important in my classroom hence I have computers and tablets for online activities and lessons.

I want my classroom to feel like the Latin culture, warm and cozy. I want people to feel the same way I feel when I walk into my aunt’s home in Mexico; loved and welcomed. I truly believe that if I can make them feel like that they will be connecting with the culture on another level other than me in front of a board going over a “verb” lesson. Food and music will also be a big part of my class and lessons and for that I want to invite parents to participate and maybe have a “cooking” night on which we will be preparing famous recipes from different “Latin American” countries. Karaoke “nights” will be incorporated too because they students need to practice their new vocabulary in a fun way. 

A classroom’s atmosphere plays a big role in a student’s success and interest in your class that’s one of the reasons why I want my students to feel welcomed. I want them to engage and never forget what they felt every time they walked in Mrs. Rivera's classroom.