BY RUBEN CARILLO
Describe what your favorite moment has been while teaching? When I had a student who was in the media center, and I told her she had passed the FCAT and she started screaming. Everyone in the media center thought something was wrong.
What did you love about teaching? I like to see the students improve, and I can see how they improve from the beginning of the year to the end and how successful they will become.
Describe who helped you the most during your years of teaching? I got a lot of ideas from an elementary school where we used to do team teaching; other teachers guided me through the whole process. That is where I learned how to do a lot of the visual learning.
Why did you decide to teach the subject that you teach? After the death of my mother from cancer, my brother and I lived with an aunt in New York from when I was 5 to 9, then we went back to Puerto Rico; these events helped me become motivated to become an English teacher.
Describe why you went into teaching? Since I was very young I would tutor many of my friends in high school and middle school because their English was limited and I helped grade papers.
What is the first activity you are going to do when you retire and why? I want to go to Brazil. My nephew moved to Brazil and I have someone who will give me a tour of the country.