About Me!

About Me!

     Hello!  I hope you are having a great summer relaxing under the sun!!!  I know I am, but I am getting very excited to meet you!  I am very happy to have you in my 6^th grade classroom this year.  We WILL have a great year together.  I promise!  

     I would like to introduce myself!  I am originally from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  I graduated from Cabrini College in 1994 with elementary education and psychology degrees.  I taught preschool with another teacher, and then I became an assistant director for 5 years during and right after college.  After five years, I moved to St. Joseph (1996) to be near my wonderful family. Soon after I moved to Saint Joseph, I found a great job training daycare teachers and providers at Educare (Youth Alliance) before deciding to teach again. 

     In 1998, I began teaching at Lindbergh Elementary School.  I taught fourth grade for two years and third grade for five years.  Then I moved to Pershing…then to Humboldt to teach 3^rd grade for another five years.  During those times, I have received my Masters in Reading Education from Northwest State University in December of 2004.  I was also a reading specialist at Humboldt (two years).  Finally, I am at Hosea to teach 6^th grade!  I LOVED teaching 3^rd and 4^th grade, but I have always wanted to teach 6^th grade…So, here I am!  As you can see, I am blessed to have met so many wonderful teachers…they helped me to be the teacher I am today. 

     Here is something unique about me…I am deaf, and I read lips.  I was born deaf, and I have always been around hearing people since my parents wanted me to be the best I could be, REGARDLESS of my handicap.  I wore a hearing aid in my left ear ever since I was 2 years old (I could hear 10 percent without my hearing aid in my left ear, which is why I could use a hearing aid, and in my right ear, I have no hearing at all).  As you will see, I have always lived the motto, “Silence will not take me away…I will do everything in my power to be who I want to be…no matter what other people say!”  Well, I am doing what I have always wanted to do…TO BE A TEACHER! 

 

     Five years ago, I have lost that 10 percent I had left in my left ear.  Therefore, my hearing aid was useless.  (Boy, that was so scary!)  I now wear a cochlear implant in my left ear.  The ONLY problem I have is  understanding others on a phone.  (THANK GOODNESS everyone wants to text these days!) 

     I have never had any problems teaching because of this handicap.  All students that I have had previously never had any problems understanding me, and they have always been so kind and understanding of my situation.  This is true of the parents that I had previously as well.  I have been teaching for a total of 15 years, and I have never once had any problems.  I loved every single student and families of all ages!  This is why I love teaching…you can be WHATEVER you want to be if you stick your mind to it, and if you BELIEVE in yourself.  My teachers helped me to be I wanted to be…Now, it is my job to help you, my students, be the person you would like to be…it is all about choices.  

 I am so looking forward to meeting you and see how unique you are as well!  You will be entering the PEACE, LOVE, AND RESPECT zone!  It is like FAR OUT! 

Mrs. “Groovy” Brennan

Your 6^th grade teacher