Cheramy Farina
Cheramy Farina
Mrs. Farina received a B.S. in Elementary Education from Longwood College,
Farmville, Virginia and is close to completing a M.A. in History from West
Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. She has taught in Virginia
Beach and Henrico County, Virginia and for the past 19 years, in Newark,
Delaware. She is presently teaching third grade at McVey Elementary School
in the Christina School District.
Mrs. Farina was one of two lead teachers for the Launching A Dream
program in 1998, a program created by Dr. Wright to give elementary
students an opportunity to experience the process that an astronaut goes
through to be selected, prepare a mission and finally complete that
mission. This is a yearlong program, which is completed with a mission
rendezvous at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. She has also
developed and implemented a Space Science Overnight program for selected
third graders at McVey, which includes teaching and training them on the
K-3 Boeing Simulator plane.
The Christina School District selected her the Christina School
District Teacher of the Year for 1996-1997. She was also awarded the
Richard (Kippy) Dupont Award for Excellence in Elementary Education in
1998. She has previously served on the Christina School District Science
Committee and this year has returned as Lead Science Teacher for McVey
School. Mrs. Farina was also selected to participate in 2002 on a
statewide scoring committee for the Delaware State Science Test.
Mrs. Farina and her husband, a dog and two cats live in
Pennsylvania where she is constantly thinking up new approaches to turn
her students on to Science as she integrates it into other subject areas.
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