NAME:
Mrs. Tweed (Christina)
SCHOOL:
Laurel Nokomis School
CLASS:
4th Grade Gifted
SCHOOL PHONE:
941-486-2171
I enjoy being creative and love a good adventure. Being a teacher
provides me with opportunities for both. I love my profession!
As a child, I lived most of my life outside the United States. My father
was a U.S. diplomat. I grew up in Central America (Panama, Colombia, and
Nicaragua) and spent my teens in Europe and Egypt. After graduating from High
School, I moved to Sarasota where I met Mr. Tweed and I have lived here ever
since. We have two sons,Malcolm, 20,is currently at SCF but looking forward
to basic training in the Air Force come January, Miles,26, and his wife
Heather live in Tampa where he is attending medical school at USF.
I have been a teacher for ten years, six of those years here at Laurel
Nokomis School. My style of teaching is a constructivist style. This
theoretical framework holds that learning always builds upon prior knowledge.
Learning is more effective when a student is actively engaged in the learning
process rather than attempting to receive knowledge passively. Most often I
employ guided discovery to lead the student through questions and activities
to discover, discuss, appreciate and verbalize new concepts and then extend
them further across varied curricular topics.