Friday, July 15, 2011

Grenadian excels in Exceptional Student Education


By Michael Bascombe
FLORIDA, USA, July 15, 2011 - A former Grenadian teacher recently graduated from a South Florida University with top honours in Exceptional Student Education.
Michele Francis of Petite Martinique obtained a Masters Degree in Exceptional Student Education from Nova Southeastern University at its commencement ceremony at the Bank Atlantic Centre in Florida on June 12.
Francis, the daughter of Cecelia and Claudius St Ignac, is now a proud member of Kappa Delta Pi-Omega Theta Chapter – International Honour Society in Education.
Francis was among the first group of females to graduate from the Grenada Boys’ Secondary School (GBSS) in 1987 during the school’s integrated period. She obtained her teaching certificate from Teachers’ College and taught in Grenada for 15 years. She also obtained a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a minor in Social Science from St George’s University.
Upon migrating to the United States, Francis attended Long Island University and Touro College in New York where she studied Intensive Science in General and Special Education.
Francis, who taught in Brooklyn, New York before moving to Florida, holds National Child Development Associate (CDA) and Florida Child Care Directors credentials and is currently assigned to the Palm Beach County School District in Florida.
She has already expressed an interest in pursuing a Doctoral Degree in the area of Special Education with a focus on Autism.
“My future goal is to one day operate a learning institution in Grenada where the children will be taught based on their individual learning styles,” she said.
Francis is a strong advocate of the Multiple Intelligence Theory and believes that there are many ways to teach the same thing.

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