SI_2010_Mary_Weber

**// Mary Weber //**​ ​After graduating from Purdue University, West Lafayette with her B.S. in elementary education Mary returned home to Fort Wayne and began her teaching career for Fort Wayne Community Schools. Within her first 12 years she has taught 1st and 2nd grades, and was a Language Arts coach for a Kindergarten-5th grade classrooms. The past eight years of her teaching career has been at Waynedale Elementary-FWCS. She loops first to second grade every other year. > What grade level do you teach? Second grade for the moment. BS from Purdue (West Lafayette) MS from IPFW Originates from Fort Wayne. Always at FWCS Washington (3 yrs), coach/facilator @Bloomingdale (1yr) and now teaches at Waynedale Elem (8 years!!!) Originally heard of AWP through a friend and became a co-facilitator in the third year of AWP.
 * .After graduating from Purdue University, West Lafayette with her B.S. in education she
 * What is your educational background?
 * Where are you from?
 * Where do you teach?
 * How did you come to be at AWP?
 * What are your experiences in education?


 * What are your concerns about teaching writing?
 * My concern is that my students will get caught up in the mechanics of writing and not have a love of writing in all genres. I want my love of writing to transfer over to my students.

Writer
 * What inspired you to write?
 * I am inspired to write as an outlet that allows me to share my writing in a non-threatening way.
 * How do you view writing as a professional in education?
 * I view myself as a writing professional who uses writing gurus to strengthen my writing curriculum.
 * How do you use writing in your life?
 * I've written from elementary school on. I've always kept a journal. Sometimes my friends have contributed to my journal and I love looking back on it. Going back and seeing both sides of things that happened is great. My penpal and I have exchanged letters for almost 20 years. Now we facebook each other. Written letters are the best. I've saved all of her letters, in fact.
 * What genres do you like to write in?
 * Poetry, definitely. Poetry doesn't have many rules and I like that.
 * When did you first think of yourself as a writer?
 * in elem school while writing books as a youngster
 * What writers do you like to read?
 * Sophia Kinsella writes humorous, "beachy" books. She's always a fun read.The Books

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