Meet Ms. Garcia

Teaching Experience

From my earliest years, I have had two main passions in life: the creative arts and helping others reach their fullest potential. Whether it was explaining to my fourth grade peers that showing, not telling, the reader what happens in a story makes it more exciting to spending hours emailing students personalized feedback notes instead of standard rejection letters while editor-in-chief of my college's literary arts magazine, these two loves truly developed in tandem throughout my young adulthood. I knew that my calling in life was to become an English teacher, and every day spent in the classroom with my students further solidifies this belief.

Before beginning Cal Lutheran's teacher preparation program in the fall, I worked for five years at an individualized learning center working with K-12 students in reading and math, volunteered as a mentor in a program for students with autism spectrum disorders, and served as a mentor for GATE students from local elementary schools that were interested in creative writing. During my student teaching, I taught seventh grade at Los Cerritos Middle School in the Conejo Valley and tenth grade and AP Literature at Royal High School in Simi Valley. Both experiences taught me the importance of ensuring that all students receive rigorous, well-paced, and personalized instruction that teaches them critical thinking skills needed for college, careers, and beyond.