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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