Mrs. Terry Zeytoonian
Grade 6 Science
Contact Information…
Email: tzeytoonian@ycsd.york.va.us
Phone: Grafton
Middle School 898-0525
Conferences are arranged through
the student’s guidance
counselor.
All About…
Originally from
My teaching experiences include 25 years plus in both
public and private schools in a half dozen different states as well as for the
Department of Defense Dependent Schools in
I served 20 years in the Air Force Reserve as a medic
(Nationally Registered EMT), primarily training in the emergency room and
flying aero medical evacuation missions, qualified on C-141 and C-130 aircraft,
to
Needless to say, I absolutely love to travel. I am also a
weekend gardener and antique hunter!
Why teaching…
Starting with the ancient Greeks, philosophers have
struggled with the “how, who, what and why” that constitutes education. Every
age and culture has answered those questions in different ways. All are caring
adults searching to find meaningful ways to transmit
the sum and substance of civilization and knowledge to the next generation.
As a teacher…
I believe that the best way to create a
productive learning environment is to employ educational methods, techniques and
principles that are based on unbiased scientific research.
I
believe that all children can learn if given a safe, respectful environment
where required content is presented in a way that supports both
the novice or reluctant learner as well as the gifted and
self-motivated.
I
believe that learning should be engaging and create opportunities to process
content on all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
I
believe that all children perceive and learn differently. They need to be given
opportunities to construct personal meaning from the subject matter in ways
that meet their learning style whether it is cognitive, affective or
psychomotor.
I
believe that parents are their children’s primary teachers, and although
cheesy, the poem “Children Learn What They Live”, has a lot to do with how
children behave and approach learning tasks in school.
I
believe that, as reasonable as possible, children should be able to test their
limits and take risks. In “Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins”, Farson and Keyes note “acceptance (that neither success or
failure are what they seen to be) produces…environments that are genuinely risk
friendly, which is to say failure tolerant…Those who are passionately engaged
in a task they care about are the ones most likely to achieve success.”
Albert
Einstein once remarked that knowledge exists in two forms, lifelessly stored in
books and alive in the consciousness of men. To that end my “job” is to teach
Science based on state mandated standards of learning, but my “joy” comes from
educating my students to strive for excellence in themselves by challenging them,
through the acquisition of content knowledge, to find and understand their
innate abilities, talents, and skills and learn to use them to influence both
the quality of their life and people around them.