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 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 sixteen years so far. (Currently my son is a graduate of Bryan College and recently married, and my daughter is a freshman at Biola University.) During those homeschool years I have 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 combines my love of history, literature, and Bible knowledge, so it has been a good fit. 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 have taught mine to "Live with your brains turned on."
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