Coygon's ED Store
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Gulfport, Mississippi, United States
About the store
Teaching related experience -
Adult Education, Oakland Unified School District, CA - 1975
Substitute Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District, CA - 1974, 2007-2014
Supervisor/Trainer of Signal Search Analysts, U.S.A.F., Electronic Security Command (World Wide) - 1978-1990
Photo Collage Printmaking Instruction, Gulf Coast - 1999-2005
Substitute Teacher STEM Curriculum Developer:
- Technology Preparatory Program (Tech-PreP)
- The STEM-LA Initiative (Modules- Lessons, Puzzles and Games):
- Using Cryptographs in Education
- Communications and Numbers
- Accelerated Math Practice Using Puzzles (AMP-UP)
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Equation Puzzles and Games by The STEM-LA Initiative (AMP-UP)
Accelerate Math Practice Using Puzzles (AMP-UP) is a math practicing program I created to support the lessons in my STEM-LA Initiative. I designed the four puzzles formats to challenge students to use their mental math skills in an atmosphere of enter-student competition .
The initial 24 puzzles were designed to emphasize the Order of Operations, while providing ascending levels of difficulty to help students increase their critical thinking and problem solving abilities through the solving
1st - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Basic Operations, Math, Order of Operations
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About the store
Experience
Teaching related experience -
Adult Education, Oakland Unified School District, CA - 1975
Substitute Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District, CA - 1974, 2007-2014
Supervisor/Trainer of Signal Search Analysts, U.S.A.F., Electronic Security Command (World Wide) - 1978-1990
Photo Collage Printmaking Instruction, Gulf Coast - 1999-2005
Substitute Teacher STEM Curriculum Developer:
- Technology Preparatory Program (Tech-PreP)
- The STEM-LA Initiative (Modules- Lessons, Puzzles and Games):
- Using Cryptographs in Education
- Communications and Numbers
- Accelerated Math Practice Using Puzzles (AMP-UP)
Teaching style
I believe in teaching students by showing them the connectivity which exist between the math, science, language arts, music, art and other classroom subjects and their end use when they are applied in the work place. This focus allows me to use a student's natural interest in the unknown to capture their attention and imagination while teaching the lessons for that day.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Music - Solo and Ensemble Awards in Drumming - High School
- Four year music scholarship - Miss. Valley State
University
Art - Designed the official college logo - M.V.S.U.
- Who's Who in Colleges and Universities -1969
- Numerous Cash and Purchase Awards at juried Art Festivals
- Award of Excellence - "Photography 2000", Tennessee Valley Art Association
- Art Exhibition - Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art - 2000
- 25 Photo Collage Prints - Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Military - Two Air Force Commendation Medals
- One Joint Service Commendation Medals
My own education history
High School - M.F. Nichols - Biloxi, MS - 1969
Junior College - Community College of the Air Force - Associate Degree, Intelligence Collection
College - Mississippi Valley State University - Bachelors Degree - Art Education
Graduates Courses - Education and Public Administration
Military Technical Schools:
- Basic Military Training, 1978
- Crypto Technical Operation Type 2 Course, Corry Station, Pensacola, FL, 1979
- Senior Non-Morse Analysis Course, Corry Station, Pensacola, FL, 1981-82
Additional biographical information
Art Studio Galleries - Owner/Operator
- Spectrum Studios, Wilmington, NC, 1976-1978
- Digital Gallery Plus, Biloxi, MS, 2002-2003
- COYGON’S Artist Studio Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2005 - Present
Researcher and STEM Curriculum Developer
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