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This "foldable" is an assignment I completed for the Science Curriculum and Instruction (TED 512) class. It was inspired by the book Measuring Penny, and the activity is designed for a 4th or 5th-grade level class. The foldable analyzes the differences between standard and nonstandard methods of measuring– which allows students to explore their surroundings and formulate their own methods of measurement with everyday objects.

This assignment I submitted for an Introduction to Teaching Emergent Bilinguals (TED 501) class. As an immigrant and long-term English learner, I connected to this class on a personal level. In this assignment, I reflected on a video that depicts the difficult language barrier that foreign students face in the classroom. Having experienced this difficulty first hand, I am committed to advocate and be a guiding hand to the students that very much remind me of myself when I was their age.

This is an assignment I submitted for an Introduction to Teaching Special Populations (TED 504) class. This course went deep in the differentiation of a 504 plan and an IEP. However, most notably, it taught me the "people first" guideline in which the main idea is that you address the person first before their disability. A medical diagnosis is not a complete identity.

When the California State mandate shut down schools, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, classroom instruction had to go virtual. During the same time, I was enrolled in a Hands-on Science Teaching course that involved teaching science projects to grade school children. However, due to the state mandates, we had to instruct online. Here is an educational video I made with a fun experiment testing how carbon dioxide contributes to the acidification of the ocean. Enjoy!

Here is my final project for a children's literature class I took. In this project, “Flipturn”, I tell the story of a 13-year-old teen that is grappling with a non-binary identity. Inspired by Judy Blume's 1970 piece “Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret”, which is A binary coming of age story told from the first-person perspective best known for telling an honest portrayal of a young girl's mind. The heartwarming story deals with the emergence of womanhood, religion and societal norms and expectations. As these matters have great importance in the development of adolescence, the story is now slightly out of date given that it does not fit modern perspectives of gender non-conformation and the non-bianry spectrum. This is why i decided to write A story that embodies the adolescent experience; coming into grip with the non-binary spectrum while also delivering an emotionally rewarding narrative. The project itself is the concept outline for a graphic novel, including original illustrations, and script by me.