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Maria DeMaio Arcodia
Area 5
Teacher of the Year
North Shore Elementary
Kindergarten
Principal: Dr. Deirdra McDowell-Sutton
Education
B.A., Queens College
M.E., University of North Florida
Highlights:
More than 4 years of teaching experience
Duval County Reading Council Representative
Member, North Shore Elementary Parent-Teacher
Association
Member, National Educational Association
Maria DeMaio has taught in Duval County
for four years. Maria provides mentoring experiences for
education students and interns in her classroom. Her
last intern is now a kindergarten teacher at North
Shore. Maria believes that communication is vital to the
education of her students. She makes contact with her
students’ families often via telephone, e-mail, weekly
newsletters and notes. She often maintains contact with
her students and their families long after they leave
her classroom.
“Each year I reflect on techniques that
worked well and techniques that need revision. I adjust
my teaching style as necessary in order to meet the
needs of our children. The greatest satisfaction comes
when a child enters kindergarten with limited background
knowledge and leaves reading, writing, adding,
subtracting and confident to try new tasks without fear
of failure.”
~Maria DeMaio
“I knew that Ms. DeMaio was a smart
teacher when my son Miles came home after challenging
her ‘authority on shapes.’ He told her that her sphere
looked more like a circle to him. Ms. DeMaio shared this
funny story with me not with an authoritarian attitude,
but rather as a ‘thoughtful’ comment from a student who
was thinking about her lesson and expressing his own
point of view.”
Stacey Bright
Parent
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