Erika Y. Daniels
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Phone : 1-313-359-3000
Email : EYDaniels@aol.com
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Erika Y. Daniels
Welcome to My E-Portfolio
My name is Erika Daniels. I currently teach in an upper elementary classroom at Dearborn Heights Montessori Center. I attendend Michigan State University and graduated with a B.A. in History with an minor in Spanish from Madonna University. I did my student teaching at Henry Ruff Elementary School, in Garden City, Michigan. Some of my favorite work experience involved working as a writing consultant at the Michigan State University Writing Center. I had first hand experience in helping writers through a reader's feedback.
School and Student Population
Dearborn Heights Montessori Center consists of approximately 400 children. Groups are not separated by grade level, but by mixed age groups. My students are in the 9-12 year age group which is most closely associated with the 4th through 6th grade group. My challenges are unique in that while I am a certified teacher in the state of Michigan, I am not a certified Montessori teacher. While I share teaching responsibilities in my classroom, I am classified as an assistant because I have not taken course work for Montessori Certification. In order to work effectively with my students, I have to make sure that all of my lessons are hands-on and will extract skills that come from Montessori lessons.
Technology Environment
We have quite a few high tech resources in our room. I believe this is why the STar Chart results classified us as a high tech school. In a class with 22 students, we have 4 computers, two printers, a ceiling projector and a television. The students use the computers for online research and word processing on a near daily basis. We use the computer in conjunction with the projector when the teachers want to use it in the same way we would use a blackboard.