Each Friday, The Citizen features someone in education from the Finger Lakes community in The Banks:This week, we spotlight Elizabeth Garr, assistant teacher at Neighborhood House.
Q. What is most rewarding part of being a educator?
A. Teaching children something new that they can have for a lifetime.
Q. What is the most challenging aspect of the job?
A. Getting through their fussiness, like when they all want to eat at the same time.
Q. What is the part of your day you could do without?
A. When they all eat at the same time.
Q. What's your favorite part of the day?
A. When they're all napping at the same time, which rarely happens.
Q. If you had to grade your own performance, what letter grade would you give yourself? Why?
A. B, because there is always room to improve.
Q. What are the advantages of preschool?
A. The socialization for children. They interact with children their age and have someone besides their parents looking out for them.
Q. What are some of the skills toddlers learn at Neighborhood House?
A. We do many lessons. We use puppets, let them paint, and the older children get to use crayons and stuff they can't hurt themselves on.
Q. If you weren't teaching, what would you be doing? What would you like to be doing?
A. That's a hard question, because this is all I've ever dreamed of doing - working with kids.
Q. Fill in the blank. When I was in school, I had the toughest time in my _______ class. Why?
A. English. I could never get down any of the stuff they were teaching.
Q. Fill in the blank. The best teacher I ever had was _______ because _________.
A. Mrs. Johnson, my math teacher at Weedsport Junior High School. She always tried to help me do better at math and any other things she could help with. She was understanding and caring.
Elizabeth Garr
Age: 23
Hometown: Weedsport
Family: Brother, Kevin; daughter, Breanna, 3
Education: Associate degree in early childhood education from Cayuga Community College
Occupation: Assistant teacher, Neighborhood House, 81 Wall St., Auburn
Hobbies: Taking walks with my daughter, listening to music and the outdoors
A. Teaching children something new that they can have for a lifetime.
Q. What is the most challenging aspect of the job?
A. Getting through their fussiness, like when they all want to eat at the same time.
Q. What is the part of your day you could do without?
A. When they all eat at the same time.
Q. What's your favorite part of the day?
A. When they're all napping at the same time, which rarely happens.
Q. If you had to grade your own performance, what letter grade would you give yourself? Why?
A. B, because there is always room to improve.
Q. What are the advantages of preschool?
A. The socialization for children. They interact with children their age and have someone besides their parents looking out for them.
Q. What are some of the skills toddlers learn at Neighborhood House?
A. We do many lessons. We use puppets, let them paint, and the older children get to use crayons and stuff they can't hurt themselves on.
Q. If you weren't teaching, what would you be doing? What would you like to be doing?
A. That's a hard question, because this is all I've ever dreamed of doing - working with kids.
Q. Fill in the blank. When I was in school, I had the toughest time in my _______ class. Why?
A. English. I could never get down any of the stuff they were teaching.
Q. Fill in the blank. The best teacher I ever had was _______ because _________.
A. Mrs. Johnson, my math teacher at Weedsport Junior High School. She always tried to help me do better at math and any other things she could help with. She was understanding and caring.
Elizabeth Garr
Age: 23
Hometown: Weedsport
Family: Brother, Kevin; daughter, Breanna, 3
Education: Associate degree in early childhood education from Cayuga Community College
Occupation: Assistant teacher, Neighborhood House, 81 Wall St., Auburn
Hobbies: Taking walks with my daughter, listening to music and the outdoors
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