NAME:
Shannon MacDonald
SCHOOL:
Matthew Paterson & Kent Primary
CLASS:
Kindergarten AIS Extended Day MPES & KPS
SCHOOL PHONE:
Mrs. MacDonald has been teaching for 7 years. She began her teaching career
in Nanakuli, Hawaii; continued on to the Irvington Union Free School District
for a few years, and two years ago joined the Carmel CSD. She taught the
extended day class for MPES and KPS in the 2007-2008 SY, and last year she
was a first grade teacher at MPES.
Her undergraduate degree is in Elementary Education (College of Saint Rose),
and her graduate degree is in Literacy (Mercy College). She holds
certification in NYS for Elementary Education(Pre K- 6th)and is also
certified as a reading teacher.
Mrs. MacDonald loves football, and can often be found rooting for the NY
teams with her husband Matthew (He teaches children with Autism at the
Devereux center) and her puppy, Wookie. She is also an avid reader, and
enjoys historical fiction.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to
it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover
with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. – Plato
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed,
their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we
cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today. – Gabriela Mistral (Chilean
teacher 1899 - 1957)
The secret of education is respecting the pupil. – Ralph Waldo Emerson