Beverly Stewart
Public school, private school or
homeschool?
What will it be?
Having teaching experience in all three has been a
blessing that I love to share with others.
Sometimes it feels like I have been teaching all my
life--and maybe I have.
Playing school was my favorite game when I was a
kid.
Later, teaching experiences filled my teen years with
meaningful activity.
I taught in Bible clubs, worked in day care, and
started substituting as soon as I was old enough.
(Dad was principal of a big Christian school, so I
had an inside track on that one.)
My Bachelor of Science in Education (cum laude)
comes from Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee.
As a Texas certified teacher I taught for 7 years in
San Antonio public schools.
Those public school teaching experiences include 4
years in remedial reading programs (though I don't call myself a reading
specialist) and 3 years with gifted/talented language arts.
I was Teacher of the Year for my school for 2 years
and runner-up for Teacher of the Year in my district one of those years.
Those awards recognized my habit of trying to make
the subject meaningful to the students.
The twenty-plus years since then have
been the richest and most rewarding of my teaching career--I raised and
homeschooled my two children--giving me a variety of wonderful and my most
challenging teaching experiences spanning seventeen years.
(Currently my son is a graduate of Bryan College and
happily married, and my daughter graduated from Biola University.)
During those homeschool years I developed a passion
for teaching history and government. Another love has been helping new
homeschoolers learn the ropes. That love for helping others started a homeschool
group in Alabama which called me leader for 6 years before my husband's work
moved us to Florida.
I began teaching Starting Points at a co-op in the north Dallas area a few years ago. Starting Points combined my love of history, literature, and Bible knowledge, so it was a good fit. That naturally transitioned into World Views. Putting my favorite subjects together in a new format has been a challenge I have enjoyed. I've been taking notes throughout my lifetime of teaching and would love to teach your child, as I taught mine to "Live with your brain turned on."
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