2010-2011 Residency Completing residency at Henry World Middle School, Secondary Math
I was born and raised in Schaumburg, IL in a family of seven, and we were all raised in a vegetarian family. I have one older sister who is about to have twin boys, two younger brothers, and one younger sister (four siblings altogether). My dad is in healthcare management and my mom is a Nurse Practitioner. I have been married to Greg, a mechanical engineer, for just over a year now, and we’ve been living in Denver together since 2007. My interests include road biking, hiking, camping, reading (especially books about physics, neurology, and culture), knitting, enjoying the mountains of Colorado, hanging out with my black lab Jasper, and teaching math!
I earned my BS in Pre-Medicine and went to medical school for two years right out of college. Deciding this was not the life for me, I ended up traveling to South Korea with older sister, Kim, where we taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for a year and had the opportunity to travel throughout southeast Asia during that time as well. We spent about four months in India and Nepal, where trekking through the Himalayas was one of the best experiences of my life. After that I taught ESL to adults and business people in Santiago, Chile, and then lived in Savannah, GA doing marketing work for a short time. My family moved out to Colorado to open a Huntington Learning Center (supplemental education programs and exam preparation) and I worked in that center in Longmont since 2006.
I heard about the Denver Teacher Residency while searching online for teaching/tutoring opportunities in the Denver area. The program’s message really resonated with me, and it seemed like an amazing opportunity to become a teacher while obtaining the master’s degree I had been seeking for some time. I chose DTR because of its affiliation with Denver Public Schools, its commitment to the urban teacher residency model and the students in DPS, and to pursue my master’s degree while learning how to be an effective DPS teacher. I am most looking forward to teaching students how to have high expectations of themselves and be confident in areas, such as math, where students tend to struggle. I think teaching and learning alongside my mentor teacher is giving me a great opportunity to observe and then embody best practices in my own teaching.
Becky Peters
2010-2011 Residency
Completing residency at Henry World Middle School, Secondary Math
I was born and raised in Schaumburg, IL in a family of seven, and we were all raised in a vegetarian family. I have one older sister who is about to have twin boys, two younger brothers, and one younger sister (four siblings altogether). My dad is in healthcare management and my mom is a Nurse Practitioner. I have been married to Greg, a mechanical engineer, for just over a year now, and we’ve been living in Denver together since 2007. My interests include road biking, hiking, camping, reading (especially books about physics, neurology, and culture), knitting, enjoying the mountains of Colorado, hanging out with my black lab Jasper, and teaching math!
I earned my BS in Pre-Medicine and went to medical school for two years right out of college. Deciding this was not the life for me, I ended up traveling to South Korea with older sister, Kim, where we taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for a year and had the opportunity to travel throughout southeast Asia during that time as well. We spent about four months in India and Nepal, where trekking through the Himalayas was one of the best experiences of my life. After that I taught ESL to adults and business people in Santiago, Chile, and then lived in Savannah, GA doing marketing work for a short time. My family moved out to Colorado to open a Huntington Learning Center (supplemental education programs and exam preparation) and I worked in that center in Longmont since 2006.
I heard about the Denver Teacher Residency while searching online for teaching/tutoring opportunities in the Denver area. The program’s message really resonated with me, and it seemed like an amazing opportunity to become a teacher while obtaining the master’s degree I had been seeking for some time. I chose DTR because of its affiliation with Denver Public Schools, its commitment to the urban teacher residency model and the students in DPS, and to pursue my master’s degree while learning how to be an effective DPS teacher. I am most looking forward to teaching students how to have high expectations of themselves and be confident in areas, such as math, where students tend to struggle. I think teaching and learning alongside my mentor teacher is giving me a great opportunity to observe and then embody best practices in my own teaching.