Beatty,+Joanne,+Introduction

﻿Hello, my name is Joanne Beatty and I am a transfer student from Rogue Community College, in Grants Pass, Oregon. I am majoring in Spanish here at Southern Oregon University and am considering a minor also, possibly education. After receiving my Bachelor's degree I plan to get my Master's in Teaching and to teach Spanish on both the high school and commmunity college levels. I am a native speaker of Spanish and I am half Costa Rican. My mother was Costa Rican. I learned both English and Spanish at the same time in my home but I was not put in bilingual classes. I wish I had been because then I would have been able to continue to learn to read, write and speak Spanish. Instead I took Spanish for the first time in middle school and then two years of it in high school. The last Spanish class I took before this term was in the Spring of 1991 when I was a sophomore at U.C. Berkeley. I have missed it a lot! I have chosen for my Wiki topic Bilingual Education. I hope researching this topic will give me new and interesting information about teaching that topic and teaching in general. I am not 'super' computer proficient and when I took typing it was on a an electric typewriter NOT a keyboard. However, I plan to look at this whole Wiki thing as a challenge and I won't give up with out a fight!

