NAME:
Mrs. Ginger Hamm
SCHOOL:
St. Cecilia School
CLASS:
Reading and Math
SCHOOL PHONE:
533-6060 My email is: gingerhamm@gmail.com
My official title is Resource Teacher, Intervention Specialist. I teach
reading and math and also offer support to students in the other teaching
areas. I have taught at St. Cecilia in this capacity for 14 years. I also
taught math at St. Saviour, taught at a Head Start Program in Somerville,
Ohio and have taught summer school for about 20 years at Purcell Marian.I
have an undergraduate degree at Xavier University, a Masters from Mt. St.
Joseph and a second Masters in education at Xavier University. I also
completed the 33 hour course requirements for administration at Xavier
University. I have also taken classes at the University of Cincinnati, but
I remain a loyal Muskies fan.
My husband teaches Latin at Purcell Marian and we have 7 terrific
children. Three of my children graduated from St. Cecilia. I am most famous
for being Alex's mom. He jsut finished a two year program at Raymond Walters
branch of UC and is working at "Seasons" a very nice retirement and assisted
living place in Kenwood. Alex is a swimmer and has qualified for the state
Special Olympics three summers in a row. I also have been blessed with
six beautiful grandchildren. Three start first grade this year, a set of
twin gradaughters and a grandson. Then I have a 3 year old grandson and and
a two year year grandaughter, and a 5 month old grandaughter. They are
wonderful and I love spending time with them. My youngest daughter is an
Intervention Specialist/teacher at St. Bernard City Schools. She and her two
brothers, my youngest three children all graduated from St. Cecilia School.
Can you tell I am a
proud parent and grandparent.
I love teaching at St. Cecilia and really appreciate the fact that I am
able to teach students from K through 8. I learn a great deal from all the
children I have in classes. St. Cecilia is a great place.
The following quotes say a lot about who I am as a person and a
facilitator in the classroom.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Famous Motivational
Quote by Charles Darwin
Learning to be flexible has been my way of life….adjusting to my surroundings
and learning to know: “The things I can change, the things I cannot change,
but must accept and recognize the difference between the two.”
The mission for each of my classes for the school year 2009-2010 is to
increase student's desire to learn. My goal is to be the facilitator who
sets the environment for my students to want to learn and to become active
learners. Yes, there is a curriculum in all my reading and math classes that
needs to be implemented, but I want the students to discover that they have
to become active learners who help create and discover what it is they are
learning. I want to help my students become life-long learners. Learning is
never stagnate it is dynamic and it must involve the learner. In fact, in
many ways the learner becomes the teacher, and the teacher the learner. When
a teacher stops learning they are no longer effective as a teacher.
I so very much look forward to another wonderful year at St. Cecilia.
If there is ever a time that you need to contact me please call me at school,
on my cell, 254-4799 or at my home number, 321-7802
