Cindy Shyne

Cindy Shyne: Teacher at sea 2012

Aloha, My name is Cindy Shyne and I am a Teacher at Montessori Community School in Honolulu, Hawaii.  I teach in the 6-9 class, room 1, and I am also the P.E. teacher for the 6-9 program. My classroom is made up of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.  I have been teaching at Montessori Community School for ten years.  I enjoy the Montessori hands on method of teaching. We work with materials to learn math, science, reading, language, geometry, geography, biology and botany. I enjoy creating new "jobs" for my students to use to learn about different topics. I am excited to become the "student" on expedition TN-284 and learn how scientist "do science" in such a unique environment, on board a ship hundreds of miles from land!  My goal, in partnership with other teachers, is to develop a Montessori based curriculum about the deep sea from this experience. I have a Masters in Education with a concentration in Elementary Education from Chaminade University and an Elementary 1 Credential from the American Montessori Society.  When I am not teaching I enjoy surfing, swimming, learning to dance the hula and am a member of Encore Dance Project, a modern dance group.

阿羅哈！我是辛蒂，我擁有發自夏威夷沙米那德大學的教育碩士學位，也有蒙特梭利教學的認證，在夏威夷檀香山是蒙特梭利學校擔任教師的職位已經有十年之久。我一向都很喜歡蒙特梭利這種從實作中學習的教學法，我們必須 利用真正的實物來學習各種科目，包含數學、科學、閱讀、語言、幾何學、地理學、生物學與植物學等等。我也很喜歡給我學生新的”職位”，讓他們自己去探索不同的題材而從中得到學習。我這次的航次目的，是希望能把我的海上經驗，結合起來變成一個新的蒙特梭利教案，未來分享給其他的教師使用。當我沒有在教書的時候，我通常去衝浪、游泳、學跳呼啦舞跟現代舞。