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About me - Silvia Raven

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Hi, firstly Enough about me: my name is Raven, and Silvia was born in 1971 in Dortmund. I have been married since 1995 and have a son (* 1997), Tim.

The Theme school education runs like a thread through my life.

Of course I have school - like all of us - first seen from the student perspective. As a left-handed, I have already experienced this early, how can pedagogical beliefs feel. Shocks in the back have me gently in my first attempts at writing reminded to use the "nice" little hands. So I had the unique opportunity to become like everyone else. In my elementary school years, I have seen it with a move but also how liberating can sometimes be a change of school. Finally, I ended up doing after 13 eventful years of schooling, where I lived to see school from the student perspective, my graduation.

Despite or perhaps because of this experience, my two younger brothers and my father (Realschule and later) comprehensive school teachers already teaching fascinates me school as a pupil. Even in my adolescence, I have discussed about it for hours with my father, had an open ear for current problems of his school life and supported him in his corrections. Successfully, I have been given to school hours tutoring students and worked in the Help. So for me it was quite natural that after I finished school I studied biology, philosophy and Germanic for teaching Sek II / I and my 1st and 2 State had made.

Today I teach at a very committed school German for foreigners in the order of the Federal and experience lessons from the teacher's perspective. From this perspective, I have during my training and professional experience including teaching time in four very different high schools and one comprehensive school. In addition, I was also active in the Gifted in Bochum.

Since the birth of our son has changed my pedagogical interest, of course, extend to general questions of education within the family and issues of targeted promotion.

Over the years, my interest is always open further and become increasingly integrated. Findings of nutrition science, ecology, feng shui, alternative medicine (eg homeopathy, Zilgrei), yoga, thai chi, qi gong, meditation and relaxation techniques can be ... I am convinced that use of a happy and successful childhood, without the Esoteric . sliding In addition, I'm looking for but also very mathematical and scientific topics.

I also know of school now for several years and from the parents' perspective, because my son is now the 8th Class of a high school attended.

And of course, there are at family gatherings still present and active discussions. Here, the number of debaters over the years steadily increased. Meanwhile, my two brothers are also teachers. Likewise, my husband, my two sisters and also Tim's godmother. Nice thing is that we cover are working on very different schools: primary, real, total, language, vocational school and high school and also a large part of the school subjects. By law once told my son to a classmate: "When I need help in school, I can always help you out of my family." My mother cares for the physical well here and get us back from time to time on the floor. And finally, has little by little the number of children in our colorful round of increases, undergoing all the theories to a constant "practice test" ...