Self-Introduction

You can check out my Voki intro here http://tinyurl.com/y9388qvq

My name is Adina Ginsberg and I am looking forward to beginning my third semester in NYIT. I live in Israel and have been here for a year now. I enjoy living here and experiencing a different life than I knew all my years growing up in Brooklyn. If I were to write a book about myself I would title it, "Work by Day, Work by Night, Smile Throughout" since this is really my motto. Life is all about work whether in the classroom, at home or in school but the way to get through it all is to keep smiling and keep on plunging ahead. 

A joke that I really like: To night my daughter said something to me that I did not think was the most polite, so I asked her to repeat it in a nice way. She repeated it with a British accent :) I like to bring this into my classroom as way to grab students into English class. In the past I taught 5th graders Science, Math, History and English. Starting a year ago, I began teaching elementary students English as a second language here in Israel. I also work with post high school students in various areas of study. Ever since I last took a course introducing new literacy I have been familiar with it and have seen it play out in different classrooms I observed in. I am curious to know what else we will learn in this course to add on. Taking 3 courses simultaneously I hope that I can handle all the work.