Meet the TeachersWelcome to Fourth grade! I am your child's Fourth Grade teacher, Mrs. Amy Povie.
I am excited about teaching your child! For the past 15 years, I have taught various primary grades and as a Gifted Education resource specialist in Savannah-Chatham County Schools. I obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Brewton Parker College and a Master's Degree from Georgia Southern University, both in Early Childhood Education. In 2001, I obtained National Certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. I completed a Specialist Degree in Curriculum, Instruction, Management, and Administration from Nova Southeastern University in August of 2008. I hold endorsements in Gifted Education and as a Teacher Support Specialist. I am beginning my 20th year of teaching. I am married to Mr. Doug Povie, Band Director at Hesse K-8. We have 2 children who attend Hesse. As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a teacher. I taught my dolls, stuffed animals, neighborhood friends, my younger sister, and any other person or object I could fit on my double bed. I used a small chalkboard propped against an open drawer of my chest of drawers, kept a grade book and even behavior reports on attitude and following rules. Once my little school outgrew my room, my father built a small playhouse for me, which became my first school. I checked attendance for humans and non- humans alike, and began my first official year “teaching” at age 6. The greatest prize you could buy me was chalk! Any color, any kind! I taught every subject on my chalkboard, setting all the subjects on a tight schedule, and assessing a “time out” outside for bad behavior or for not raising hands. I begged my father to install air conditioning in my schoolhouse, but he only laughed! I continued my “teaching journey” by volunteering in the church nursery at the age of 12, babysitting beginning at 14, teaching Vacation Bible School and working at daycares in the summers as a teenager and young adult. Children were magical to me and I was drawn to them at a very early age. I loved their antics and stories, their mischievousness, and their sweet souls. As I began my career teaching, I really enjoyed meeting other teachers and learning from them, and then I crossed paths with a group of teachers who were working on National Certification. This interested me, so I prepared a portfolio and took an assessment from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards to become an Early Childhood Generalist. I obtained this honor on my first attempt in 2001 and became one of 4 teachers in Savannah- Chatham County and only 310 teachers in the state who had achieved National Certification at that time. I was thrilled to be honored in Page One magazine, through my affiliation with the Professional Association of Georgia Educators. I felt called to help other teachers so I worked with Chatham County’s Professional Development Office as an instructor for the Knowledgeable Teacher Class as a mentor for candidates working toward National Certification. I met some fantastic teachers and learned things from each of them that made my own teaching stronger. I enjoyed mentoring and felt led to obtain the Teacher Support Specialist endorsement to mentor beginning and student teachers. As I received National Certification, I became a mother. I quickly learned the importance of seeing students as individuals and identifying their strengths, which sent me down a different path. I soon gravitated toward training that taught me more about the “whole child”. I earned my Gifted Endorsement, which not only helped me prepare instruction for gifted and talented students, but helped me learn to apply these powerful teaching strategies and help students with learning disabilities become successful. I try to plan instruction that truly draws students to use their creative talents through varied learning modalities including visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, and solitary. They show demonstration of knowledge through literature, students’ choice, flexible grouping, learning centers, project-based learning, tiered assignments, interest-based menus, and contracts. I have considered these some of my greatest accomplishments as a teacher:
Its going to be a great year! |