WWF-OTS Costa Rica
2000
GISELLE NAKHID
Contents
Work Information
Job Title
HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER
Key responsibilities
COURSE GRADE LEADER and LAB COORDINATOR
Department or workgroup
JOHN JAY HIGH SCHOOL
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
237 Seventh Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215
Contact Information
422 East 17th Street. Apt5c
BROOKLYN N.Y. 11226
Office phone
(718) 788-1514 ext 226
Current Projects
The effects of project-based learning
on the active learning paradigm
Biographical Information
NATIVE
OF Trinidad and Tobago
Came
to the U.S. to pursue a degree in Dentistry. Graduated from Hunter College with
a degree in Biochemistry. After went to the University of Connecticut Health Center Dental School for one year. Unfortunately, my mother got sick and
I was unable to continue my education.
I then applied and studied Nuclear
Medicine at Mt.Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Upon completion, I was
doing a bit of free-lancing at Long Island College Hospital . After two years,
I was offered a position to teach Nuclear Medicine Technology to college
students. I have done this successfully for the past eight years and on a whim
I decided to go into teaching high school.
My first summer teaching position
began in the summer of 1996, when I was called to work as a substitute teacher.
I did not realize that I was being observed until I was called to the A.P.’s
office. He told me that I should make teaching my career, as he finallly had
someone who was actually teaching a class. Hmmmm! I thought ! So I gave it a
try and here I am in it for the past four years, reaping benefits as I see my students excel on their Regents
examinations and move on to college.
Personal Interests
tennis, piano, reading and bike
riding.