My name is Claire Fackelman, I graduate this semester with my bachelors in History and I am currently applying for the teaching credential program. I want to attain my single subject credentials in Social Science. I am from Temecula and have lived there for nearly twenty years. I have attended the public school system there having attended Sparkman Elementary which has been turned into an alternative education site and is no longer an elementary school. Admittedly, I would actually love to teach in this setting. Once Paloma Elementary opened lines were redrawn and I was sent to Paloma and finished my elementary school years there. On to middle school at Temecula Middle for two years and when my family moved out of the boundary lines I was moved to Margarita Middle. While at temecula middle I met two teachers who forever impacted my learning and my career choice. Mrs. Martin and Mr. Simmons were the coolest people I had ever met and they were truly engaging in and out of the classroom. The playful banter between the two of them showed a camaraderie that I envied. Despite loving all aspects of learning lunch and recess were not my favorite activities, in fact I would spend them in the library or with my nose in a book. I had very few friends and had very little interesting or knowledge of how people gained them so easily. My friends had become fictional characters that I read about in novels. Naturally moving schools scared me, a whole new place to be ignored when I expressed this to my teachers, Martin and Simmons moved schools with me. Now as I learned more about teaching and movement from school to school, I realized there must have been other reasons for them moving however as a 7th grader I was grateful to have them follow me and attain some sense of normalcy. I did eventually meet some friends and moved on to high school with them at Chapparal High School where I graduated. I enjoyed my K-12 years. They were challenging at times but in high school was were I found my passion for history and obviously it has stayed with me throughout the years.
School is also where I found my passion for life-long learning which is a phrase used in the mission statement for SOE. It is one of the things I have always been intrigued by, learning for a lifetime. Perhaps it is a longing to simply stay in the classroom and learn or perhaps it takes on a different form as in teaching which I now feel is learning through teaching students of a younger generation. Life long learning is something that I hope throughout my life I still hold as dear to me as I do now.
As far as a technological spectrum I am rather literate, I would not put my self as writing code or navigating unknown tech sites alone. But I can navigate the web with relative ease and can mange uploading and downloading, posting pictures etc. I look forward to learning more about incorporating technology into the classroom to make learning more engaging for the students of the newer generation.
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