My name is Alisa Dean. I was born and raised in San Diego. I have two kids one seven year old and one eight month old, they are both handfuls but so much fun as well. I went to Oak Park Elementary in San Diego it is a music conservatory magnet school. There I took up the violin I still can play some just not very well. After elementary school I attended San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts for grades 6th through 12th grades. There I focused on dance and took ballet and modern dance every day until I graduated. After graduated I attended San Diego State for a couple of semesters until I left to get married and start a family. A short while later I earned an A.A. from Southwestern College. I then attended UCSD and graduated with a B.A. in psychology. I became interested in education during my final semester at UCSD in which I took a class on the development of social cognition. There I learned about achievement gaps and thus began my passion for educational equality.
I hate to admit that I am not the most talented person when it comes to technology. I took a computer programming course before and spent most of the semester trying to catch up. I have to say I am defiantly a PC person. I depend on technology quite a bit on a daily basis for school especially. I use Office 2007 and it did take getting used to. I also kind of took a liking to the Mac since I started using one in class and am considering purchasing one.
I appreciate the mission of the CSUSM College of Education. I believe it is really important to be committed to diversity, educational equity, and social justice especially speaking from an educational standpoint. I have a desire help in the reduction of achievement gaps based on race and gender and I believe I chose the right school to help me learn how to do that in my future classroom. With that being said it was not a deciding factor in choosing CSUSM. I originally sought out to attend SDSU because it was closer to my home, but discovered the program was extremely impacted, and I would have to wait to attend the following year. I am now so glad because CSUSM was the right choice for me and I could not have found a better program.
I hate to admit that I am not the most talented person when it comes to technology. I took a computer programming course before and spent most of the semester trying to catch up. I have to say I am defiantly a PC person. I depend on technology quite a bit on a daily basis for school especially. I use Office 2007 and it did take getting used to. I also kind of took a liking to the Mac since I started using one in class and am considering purchasing one.
I appreciate the mission of the CSUSM College of Education. I believe it is really important to be committed to diversity, educational equity, and social justice especially speaking from an educational standpoint. I have a desire help in the reduction of achievement gaps based on race and gender and I believe I chose the right school to help me learn how to do that in my future classroom. With that being said it was not a deciding factor in choosing CSUSM. I originally sought out to attend SDSU because it was closer to my home, but discovered the program was extremely impacted, and I would have to wait to attend the following year. I am now so glad because CSUSM was the right choice for me and I could not have found a better program.
I also attended SDSU and totally know how things come up and school gets put on the side burner. It took me quite a few years to get my BA.
ReplyDeleteOh and a real live "native" San Diegan! That is a rare breed here as people move her for the fabulous weather.
Your self portrait is cute. I love art work done by children.