Winning Teachers 2007
Danielle Corsini
Mathematics - Grades 9-11
St. Mary Catholic Secondary School
Hamilton-Wentworth
Danielle Corsini is a Mathematics teacher for Grades 9, 10 and 11 at St. Mary Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton-Wentworth.
Danielle says she always knew she wanted to be a teacher because she had “awesome” math teachers herself. And now she is one.
Her colleagues describe her as hard working, enthusiastic and passionate. She incorporates demonstrations, visuals, games, crossword puzzles and hands-on activities into her lessons. She makes newsletters to improve literacy. One involved aliens invading earth by flying on parallel lines. She fosters confidences through team board work and rounds of applause. And she makes math relevant by using part-time jobs as the subject for hourly rate calculations or funny motion stories to demonstrate slopes.
As a new teacher starting a first career, there is plenty to adjust to. Danielle hasn’t let that slow her pace. In just her second year of teaching, she has been the field hockey coach and teacher advisor for the Athletic Council. She participated in the DREAMS project, traveling with students to the Dominican Republic to build homes. She has worked on the school success team, helped organize a pilgrimage walk for the poor and is working with the Board’s Mathematical Literacy teacher to create workshops for elementary and secondary teachers to develop best practices.
While her own teachers led Danielle Corsini to the profession, today it’s the students who are showing her the way. As she says to us in this video, “They inspire me all the time.”
This video shows how her students inspire Danielle Corsini.
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