ABOUT ME

I majored in dance education in order to someday teach dance. I will be getting my teaching credential in order to teach dance and physical education in a high school setting. I will also like to coach the wrestling team since I’ve been wrestling for 11 years and have been on the US National Team. I expect myself to succeed in whatever I do because I am a dedicated student and hard worker. I always finish what I start and I don’t give up very easily. If I have the desire to do something I follow through with my dream and I always meet the goals that I set for myself.

Motivations for Pursuing Teaching Credential

With the experience that I’ve had working with the youth I feel that I am a good and positive role model for high school students. I feel that teaching is one of my strong qualities and a gift that God has blessed me with.

Career Goal Life Experiences

I have had some great opportunities teaching dance, water aerobics, bodysculpting, weightlifting, and wrestling. I taught 4-6 year olds ballet and jazz at the YMCA in Marshall, MO. I taught 5-14 year olds capoeira and clog dancing at Robin’s Studio in San Lorenzo, CA for a dance workshop. I taught 3 dance classes at Capuchino High in San Bruno for a 45 hour internship, where I taught jazz dances to the students and they performed the dances at the Dance Education Day at SFSU. My second internship was at Robin’s Academy of Dance in San Lorenzo, where I helped and learnt how to run a dance studio; I also helped with three dance classes, (1) Tap, ballet, tumbling for children; (2) Tap for pre-teens and older; and (3) Ballet/pointe for pre-teens and older.

I was an aqua aerobic instructor at the YMCA in Pleasant Hill, CA and a cardio/sculpt instructor at the YMCA in San Francisco. I was a personal trainer at the YMCA as well. I have coached a high school girls’ wrestling club at the Concord Youth Center in Concord, CA for two years. I have assisted with the wrestling team at Ygnacio Valley High and the women’s wrestling team at Menlo College.

I have also had opportunities to perform and choreograph in dance productions at my high school, and three different colleges. I have performed in my high school, Ygnacio Valley High, dance productions in 1994, 1995, and 1996. I performed at Diablo Valley College Dance Show in 1999. I performed in “Works in Progress” showings at Missouri Valley College in 1999, 2000, 2001. I have also choreographed in San Francisco State University’s Dance Production, “New Moves,” in Fall 2002.