About Me

My Story

I joined my children Bobby (98) and Stephanie (00) at ICS in 1993 as 
Business Manager and served in that capacity until 2006.  I worked on the 
upper school project from vision to reality.  In the fall of 2006, I 
realized my long-term dream of devoting full time to the classroom, in our 
beautiful new facility.  I look forward to my third year of teaching math 
and French at the upper school and coaching field hockey.  This year I will 
be taking a group of students on a tour of France during our spring break.

My educational background includes a BA in Accounting and French from Grove 
City College and a MBA in Finance from Loyola College.  I came to ICS 
following a 15 year career at Westinghouse doing financial, contracts and 
business management activities, often on a bilingual basis.  I used my 
French training for the preparation and translation of contractual and 
business documents, negotiating contracts, conducting meetings, and making 
business presentations in French.  I also served as interpreter.  In my 
experience, achieving proficiency in a foreign language depends on a mixture 
of formal training, practical experience and a reasoning approach to 
learning.  My French instruction focuses on all three of these aspects.

Interspersed with my Westinghouse and ICS careers, I spent a number of years 
as instructor of accounting and business at Anne Arundel Community College.  
During my time at AACC, I was surprised to find how many people are 
intimidated by algebra, even as adults.  Those who are intimidated often use 
algebra quite effectively in their day-to-day activities until they realize 
that is what they are doing!  For this group, my goal is to eliminate the 
intimidation factor.  The other side of the coin is those individuals who 
have a natural intuitive understanding of math and can get the answer by 
just looking at the problem.  Often these students cannot put into words 
what they did to get the answer.  This works fine at the more introductory 
levels, but can become an issue downstream when coursework becomes more 
difficult and the problems (in a number of subjects) cannot be solved 
without going through a step-by-step approach.  For this group, my goal is 
to get them to be able to document (verbally and by showing their work) the 
approach they are taking to solve a problem.  For both groups, it is my goal 
that they understand how to use algebra as a valuable tool for many of the 
things they presently do and will do in everyday life.  And finally, I want 
the learning process to be enjoyable!

I also teach a Consumer Math course.  This course deals with the practical 
aspects of everyday life including such areas as budgeting; career choices; 
payroll and benefits; taxes; consumer credit; savings and investment; and 
general living expenses.  The course focuses on the tradeoffs and balance 
that must be achieved to assure a healthy financial status.

When not at ICS, I spend my time with my husband Jay (sailing whenever 
possible), or following Bob and Steph’s activities. Bob is a criminal 
justice major at UMUC and Steph is a voice performance/music education major 
at Ithaca College.

Contact Information:
School:  410-849-5151 x1218
Email:  gchambers@indiancreekschool.com

And in answer to the inevitable question . . . . . No, I’m not related to 
Anne!!