Pamela+Rogers




 * Pamela Rogers, Bilingual Instructional Resource Teacher **
 * John Jay Elementary School, Mount Prospect, Illinois **

 Pamela Rogers comes from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She received her education degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Education in International Education from Endicott College. She works as an instructional resource teacher, working with small groups of students for intense literacy instruction in both English and Spanish. Moreover, she works in classrooms with teachers to model lessons, instructional strategies and assessment from kindergarten to fifth grade. It is also part of her job to work on a team to review school-wide data and plan instruction for the building.

 Pamela Rogers is a member of the school's leadership team and enjoys planning family literacy nights for John Jay. She learned Spanish in Mexico when she was a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar for the International Rotary Foundation. There she met her husband, a bilingual (English-Spanish) kindergarten teacher at Robert Frost Elementary School.

 In her free time she enjoys traveling and looking for beautiful beaches, attending cultural events, watching documentaries and visiting her family in Chicago. She is excited about participating in the Educational Seminars and knows that her students, staff and district are eager to learn about Uruguay. Furthermore, she hopes she can build a strong and long professional relationship with her international colleague.