I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Ms. Hunter and taking her PD on “How to Become an International Educator”, and she has been an inspiration to me as a teacher. I admire how Marla’s engaging style of teaching, captures her students’ attention and motivates them to enjoy learning to the point they are not aware they are learning. Marla engages her students through creative and engaging lessons, so students take responsibility for their own learning, extend lessons themselves, and begin to generate questions about new subjects.
Her students are excited to come to school and are eager to discover what Ms. Hunter has in store for them. The students take charge of their learning and they become self-directed in the classroom, so that she is allowed to become the facilitator and the students are responsible stakeholders their own education. Ms. Hunter has inspired me to become a more culturally diverse teacher, in that she has encouraged me to enhance my teaching style so, my students are now inquiring about various cultures, asking to do research on specific regions of the world, and are motivated to learn.
Marla Hunter [Hooper] 