Presenter: Janis Arnold, Author and UCF College of Education Alumnus
The extent to which teaching has changed since Janis Arnold began her career as an English teacher at Howard Junior High School in Orlando is almost mind-boggling. Retired from her last teaching job (educational diagnostician specializing in early childhood assessment), and busier than ever, Arnold believes that life—and the teaching profession—is actually more circular than linear. Her almost forty year career since UCF graduation includes gigs teaching English, Special Education (ED/LD), and gifted children in public and private schools in Texas, North Carolina, and Florida as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico. She always considered herself as a writer, and has published numerous magazine, newspaper, and online articles, two literary fiction novels, and way too many psycho-educational reports and educational treatment plans to tally up. Currently she’s writing 4 books and serving as a pro bono advocate for a little boy who is the subject of one of the in-progress books: Saving Aleczander. Arnold will discuss how the one constant for today’s kids remains their dedicated and hard-working teachers, and she’ll provide tips as to how beginning teachers can prepare themselves for their future classrooms!
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