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Abigail Foote

California University of Pennsylvania
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Biography

Through out my career, I have thrived in unique teaching experiences that have enabled a mastery of flexibility and thinking on my toes. Although my expertise lies mainly in ELA, social studies and elementary education; I take pride in being able to adapt to and teach any subject that is thrown at me.
I have had experience with one on one and small group tutoring through many different means in my early career. However, my time on movie and tv sets as a studio teacher cemented the notion that flexibility is the most important skill a teacher can learn. On set, I had to ensure the production was adhering to child labor laws with every minor on the set. One facet of the laws was to ensure the minors had a specific amount of time for education. Teaching occurred in the 20-30 minutes between takes or while waiting for the scene the minors were in. Other times, production would send me to their hotel and we conducted school over several hours in a conference room. I have managed a room of 6 young actors and actresses, each with their own grade level and all with unique schools that I had to collaborate with.
This ability to think on my toes and make the most out of limited time helped me when I moved on to substitute teaching. At the school district I worked with, I was known to be a wonderful sub who got the daily work done. I also specialized in coming in with little to no notice in a classroom and having as smooth of a transition as I could. It didn’t matter if I wasn’t a music teacher or a STEM teacher. If that class needed covered, I would do it. The school district I worked with did not believe in “easy sub” days so I had find a way to make the lesson plans work even if the subject was not my expertise.
Recently, the ability to adapt has taken on a new meaning. Due to health concerns, I had to choose to find safer work. Currently, I am developing my own American History course for upper elementary through a company called Lernsys. Starting with a huge learning curve, I am now proficient at editing videos, working with white board animation and animation software. I have also been learning how to use adobe to bring extra creativity to my graphics in my videos.
Educational videos are really exciting and refreshing to make. I have always preferred to teach with a flair of entertainment whether that is singing directions to students or animating a skit to better demonstrate a point. These kinds of videos make it easier to do so. It has become a new passion and hobby of mine. This is why Numerade is so enticing to me.

Education

MS Education- Reading Specialty
California University of Pennsylvania
BS Elementary Education
Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Educator Statistics

Numerade tutor for 6 years
88 Students Helped

Topics Covered

Psychological Research: Approaches and Methods
Psychological Research: Analysis of Findings
Ethics of Psychological Research
Thinking and Intelligence
Language and Problem Solving
Prejudice and Discrimination
Aggression & Attraction

Abigail's Textbook Answer Videos

02:27
Understanding Psychology, Student Edition

In ordinary English, there is no resemblance between the written appearance of a word and the idea for which it stands. Write the following words in such a way that the word illustrates the idea: war, empty, fly, kick, Mommy.

Chapter 11: Thinking and Language
Section 2: Language
Abigail Foote
02:16
Understanding Psychology, Student Edition

Pretend that you are a car dealer and you are persuading a young couple to purchase an automobile from your dealership. Write a brief script between the dealer and the couple that incorporates aspects of persuasion techniques both might use

Chapter 20: Attitudes and Social Influence
Section 3: Persuasion
Abigail Foote
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Abigail's Quick Ask Videos

00:25
Psychology

Gestalt psychology focuses on
a. the organization of the mind.
b. the ways in which the brain organizes and structures our perceptions of the world.
c. the functions of behavior.
d. the role of self-actualization in motivating behavior.
00:25
Psychology

Which psychological perspective originated with Sigmund Freud?
00:35
Psychology

What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?
a. Selective attention
b. Transduction
c. Bottom-up processing
d. Top-down processing
e. Signal detection theory
00:40
Psychology

A woman had been pondering a problem for days and was about to give up when, suddenly, the solution came to her. Her experience can be best described as what?
a. Cognitive mapping
b. Insight
c. Operant conditioning
d. Classical conditioning
e. Unconscious associative learning
00:24
Psychology

Classical conditioning is the type of learning in which a person links two or more stimuli and
a. forgets about them.
b. lays them out in sequence.
c. shuts down.
d. anticipates events
e. receives a reward.
00:53
Psychology

In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus
a. naturally triggers a response.
b. is a naturally occurring response.
c. is initially irrelevant, and then comes to trigger a
response.
d. objectively studies psychology.
e. is Pavlovian.
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