Introduction+Survey


 * 1) **Are you currently teaching? If so, what grades or subject. If not, are you working at another profession?** I have been a college student since 2000, and a school bus driver since 1995, among a multitude of other endeavors.
 * 2) **What are some of your primary responsibilities?** Aside from the obvious, getting the students safely to and from school, they have been willing, and helpful volunteers in many of my WNEU courses. from canvassing what they like to read, encouraging them to join the local library book clubs, suited for all various grades; to learning their opinion of Common Core Standards, which began at our school last fall.
 * 3) **What are your career aspirations for the future?** I plan to present a curriculum and lesson plan, offering Reiki and alternative healing modalities to High school, and/or Collage students.
 * 4) **Have you ever been mentored as part of a professional development formal mentoring program?** No so far.
 * 5) **Does your school district have a mentoring program?** no, though this is not referring to mentoring teachers, I copied this from our town meeting (Tamworth NH; rural, Northern community in the foothills of the White Mountains) last March; **"**Life Bridge is a mentoring organization serving students in Tamworth. Life Bridge supports students in 7th and 8th grade with one to one mentoring services and offers students healthy group events aimed at helping curb delinquency and risky behaviors. Life Bridge has provided a full time staff person to oversee the program which currently Life Bridge serves about 40+ families from Tamworth". It did not receive the funding asked for..
 * 6) **What are your thoughts and feelings about mentoring in education?** Surely I have lots to learn on the topic, though I think mentoring is a great ides. the more information and comfort you can provide anew teacher, or a new employee in any situation, is a great opportunity to create a motivated capable staff.