About Mrs. Bailey
This is my 13th year in education and my 8th year in Dripping Springs ISD. I am excited to start my second year teaching 6th grade science at Dripping Springs Middle School. Before that, I had the great fortune of teaching 4th grade for 6 years at Walnut Springs Elementary. Prior to coming to Dripping Springs ISD, I taught in Hays CISD, grades 1, 2, and 3, and I also specialized in technology. My hobbies include reading, swimming, being a soccer and swim mom, and technology, but mostly I love to just hang out with my family. Mr. Bailey is a detective with the Austin Police Department, and loves solving crimes. I have two amazing kids, Emma and Jackson, and they keep me very busy with sports and school. We all love and enjoy our beagle named Ellie.
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Educational Biography
I was born in Austin, TX and lived in the very small town of Leander (not so small anymore). I graduated from Leander High School and then attended Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State). I graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in General Biology. I then became a teacher through the very rigorous Region XIII Education Service Center program. My first teaching assignment in Buda, TX, was teaching 3rd grade. After 4 years in the classroom, I took some time off to be a mom. I then returned to teaching as the Instructional Technology Specialist for Fuentes Elementary. My job allowed me to model technology integration for grades K-5. I was then blessed with an opportunity to teach in Dripping Springs, our home town.
Educational Philosophy
Taking part in educating and preparing children who will become our future is one of the most rewarding, fulfilling and recognizably challenging tasks that someone can do. As teachers, our job is not only providing a safe, nurturing environment and developing lessons across the curriculum that meet the needs of individuals students, but also balancing state demands with student needs and parent concerns. In order to meet these challenges, a teacher must maintain a patient and positive attitude, show creativity, be highly organized, communicate effectively and continue professional development.
If learning is to take place, a student must feel secure in their environment and in the person providing the information. The most important tool in education is not a curriculum or a textbook, but the relationship the teacher has with her students. A teacher must develop a rapport of respect with each student through encouragement, patience and a celebration of their diversity.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-Anonymous
Teaching is an art. A good teacher will draw upon the multiple intelligences of the students to prepare varied, exciting lessons that leave positive lasting impressions. It is important to recognize the different learning styles and backgrounds of students and to remember there is more than one right answer and more than one right way to teach something. Whether the lesson uses music, art or hands-on experimentation, the teacher creates avenues for children to permanently store the learned information; as well as, nurturing a love of learning and inspiring children to do more than they thought they could.
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
-W.B. Yeats
Finally, I believe that all students share an innate desire to learn and it is their experiences that develop or inhibit their achievement. Teachers, working collaboratively with parents and other community members, help create positive experiences that enable and encourage the student to push beyond learning minimal standard requirements to reach and extend their zone of proximal development. The goal is for the student to become a self-motivated learner so that when their class time is over, the learning isn’t.
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
-Clay P. Bedford
If learning is to take place, a student must feel secure in their environment and in the person providing the information. The most important tool in education is not a curriculum or a textbook, but the relationship the teacher has with her students. A teacher must develop a rapport of respect with each student through encouragement, patience and a celebration of their diversity.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
-Anonymous
Teaching is an art. A good teacher will draw upon the multiple intelligences of the students to prepare varied, exciting lessons that leave positive lasting impressions. It is important to recognize the different learning styles and backgrounds of students and to remember there is more than one right answer and more than one right way to teach something. Whether the lesson uses music, art or hands-on experimentation, the teacher creates avenues for children to permanently store the learned information; as well as, nurturing a love of learning and inspiring children to do more than they thought they could.
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
-W.B. Yeats
Finally, I believe that all students share an innate desire to learn and it is their experiences that develop or inhibit their achievement. Teachers, working collaboratively with parents and other community members, help create positive experiences that enable and encourage the student to push beyond learning minimal standard requirements to reach and extend their zone of proximal development. The goal is for the student to become a self-motivated learner so that when their class time is over, the learning isn’t.
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
-Clay P. Bedford