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 * Websites Guiding My Teaching**

These are just a few ideas guiding my teaching. Notice how they all relate to the student becoming more independent and responsible for themselves and their education. Students grow and try new things within the structure of the lessons I teach. As you peruse these pages, be aware they are not just for students but parents and others wishing to know just who is Mr. Trad.

** INSTRUCTOR IDENTIFICATION ** Current teaching assignments: 7th/8th Grade, Morristown Elementary School, Morristown, Az. **Michael Trad**  mtrad@morristowneld75.org

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Dec. 2000
 * Professional Preparation**
 * Bachelors Degree:** Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, from

Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, April 2010
 * Masters Degree:** Curriculum and Instruction: Technology, from

E.S.L. Endorsement Education/Training/Certification Teaching America History Arizona Classroom Teachers of Technology Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
 * Other:**


 * Awards:** Arizona Rural Schools Association, Teacher of the Year 2011, Maricopa County


 * Q****uotes inspiring my character:**

About the influences we have on others and the world,
 * "It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." ** - [|George Washington]

While I was in the Air Force,
 * "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." ** - [|G. K. Chesterton]

How to understand mankind,
 * "Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all." ** - [|Voltaire]

Why we follow the Rule of Law in the United States,
 * "Not everything you may care about is in the Constitution. It is a legal document that had compromises in it. What it says it says; what it doesn’t say it doesn’t say." ** - [|Justice Antonin Scalia]

The reason we keep a military strong and modern,
 * "The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget... in the final analysis... that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger." ** - [|Ronald Reagan]