Beverly E. Watts
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Beverly E. Watts
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I am the youngest of four children born to Earl
and Anna in 1951. As a young adult I accompanied
my parents on seven Holy Land trips. On one of the trips, a beduoin offered my father 22 camels for me. Thankfully the offer was declined. My father, mother, and sister produced over 20 multimedia slide presentations depicting our travels.
Dad provided the narration and Marilyn and I correlated the slides with
music. The Holy Land presentations were shown in many churches in the
area as well as other states.
After graduating from college with a BA degree in Elementary Education, I taught at a K-8 school in New Jersey. I taught third grade for 21 years and became the school's 1990 Teacher of the Year. In 1996, I was inducted into "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." In 1994, I became computer lab instructor and assisted with the installation of the first Macintosh computer lab. In 1997, the school's sixth grade teachers and I were awarded the NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Grant to implement a technology project on the history of the district's only school. The Grant project was featured on the award winning television show Classroom Close-Up NJ.
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In 1998, I worked with an Apple computer
engineer to install brand new G3 Macintosh computers in the school's computer
lab. I assisted in networking the computers in the lab and classrooms.
In 1999, I wrote a grant to bring high-speed Internet access to our school.
Its purpose was to train teachers to use the technology and give the community
the opportunity to use the high-speed network. The school was awarded
the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund Grant and the 1999-2000
school year was spent implementing the grant. The summer of 2001, I was awarded a grant to work with a group of select students on the video project called, "Lincoln's Lasting Legacy." In 2001, after 28 years,
I retired from teaching to care for my mother. In my spare
time I design web sites.
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