Drew Engman

Drew Engman Poems

Drew Engman Biography

Hello friends, I've been writing poems, songs, and short prose since about 1969, when I was ten. That is also when I started playing guitar, harmonica, saxophone, autoharp, recorders, and a few other instruments. I plan on being an avid musician and 'word man' until I die at or lose my mind, whichever comes first! My teacher resume follows: Drew A.G. Engman P.O. Box 720130 Pinon Hills, CA 92372-0130 Classroom 760-244-6131 ext.209 Email: drew_engman@sbcss.k12.ca.us engmand1@csusb.edu drewster58@csumentor.edu OBJECTIVE To be the most caring, competent, and effective teacher I can now, and to become the experienced, professional educator I know I will be. I want to help young people succeed in school and in life. This is my heart's desire. All my energy is committed to achieving this goal. QUALIFICATIONS Have worked very successfully for many years in different groups and one-on-one with students from preschool through 12th grade, and their parents and other teachers. Love kids and patiently do all I can to reach them where they are at, on their level. Time-tested and proven people skills, keep cool in a crisis, and can think on my feet. Enthusiastic and eager to excel as a teacher, and confident that the potential in me to become a great teacher will grow and thrive with new opportunities and challenges. EDUCATION Victor Valley College, A. A.1982 CBEST, passed 1999 California Baptist University, B.A. Liberal Studies 5/4/01 Cum Laude Graduate Chapman University, K-8 Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Program 2001-2003 4.0 GPA MSAT passed 2002 (90th percentile) RICA Passed 2002 (90th percentile) CSUSB ECSE Credential 2008 MA Special Education 2009 Moderate/Severe add-on credential 200 in progress WORK HISTORY 8/2002-Present: Teacher, Early Childhood Special Educator San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. Teaching moderate to severely disabled preschool students in a self contained classroom; help write appropriate goals and objectives based on a variety of assessments within an IEP team approach; plan and implement well structured, targeted, and effective lessons, instruction, and a cooperative learning environment. 3/2001-6/2002: Teacher, Lime Street Elementary School, Hesperia Unified School District. Taught 4th grade for the 2000-2001 school year. Successfully transformed a very difficult group of title 1 students into an organized, cooperative, and motivated classroom. Taught 1st grade for the 2001-2002 school year very effectively, incorporating CA state standards into an engaging, student-centered curriculum. 1980-present: Music Teacher. Personal Tutor Teaching music theory and instrumental performance privately to children, teens, and adults. This includes planning lessons, testing progress, and modifying approaches to fit different learning styles. Many students have been helped to excel in difficult high school and college music courses. 1993-2002: Associate Music Director, Calvary Chapel of Phelan Assisted with all music programs. Directed the children and teen music programs 1994-1998, organizing studies, selecting materials, leading rehearsals, and conducting performances. 1994-2001: School bus Driver, Snowline School District Began as regular route driver, but on recommendation of supervisor, for several years transported and actively worked with the severely handicapped, SED, DD, and medically fragile students, and their caregivers and teachers. Volunteered and observed in their classrooms frequently. 1998-1999: Tutor, VISTA 'Everyone Reads! ' program Tutored fifteen K-5 students at Pinon Hills Elementary, who went on to have some of the most improved reading skills and test scores in the first year of the program. 1980-1992: Professional Guitarist/Vocalist Played in Rock and Roll, Country, Oldies club bands and college jazz bands, pursuing an active career in music. AWARDS RECEIVED Alpha Chi National Honor Society 1999. Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities 1998 Top ten percent of class CBU 1998 Honor Roll, VVC 1982 Dean's List, VVC 1981 RELEVANT VOLUNTEER WORK Since 1992 have led biblically-based drug and alcohol 12-step recovery meetings weekly for teens and adults. Have served as a lay counselor doing private interventions and family counseling intermittently. Since 1994 have been a Prison Fellowship volunteer weekly, leading church services in prisons, teaching bible studies, guiding drug and alcohol recovery groups, and leading the music. Do many special concerts and outreaches in prisons, at missions, and soup kitchens each year. Currently lead worship and teach bible studies for Sunday services at the Village Church in Wrightwood on an occasional basis. COMPUTER SKILLS Advanced user of Windows and Macintosh computers and operating systems, and most software programs and peripherals. Using computers since 1984, online since 1996. Interested in incorporating technology and computers into the curriculum. Have designed several beginning web pages. Currently using Intellikeys and a Touch Window with special education software to enable my multihandicapped students? access to computer time daily. SUMMARY I am an asset to my current school district and community. I have experience and many useful skills now. I have finished the coursework for my K-8 multiple subject regular education credential and just earned my ECSE credential. I am now working on a moderate/severe SE teaching credential and an MA in special education. I realize how hard the tasks are that face me: I have repeatedly demonstrated I am up to the challenge. I know how difficult teaching can be: I have proven myself and improved with each opportunity. MOTTO One hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be a different and better place because I was important, because I made a difference, in the life of a child.)

The Best Poem Of Drew Engman

Creature Of Habit

I used to think of myself as forsaken,
Then Jesus called me His own.
My every decision seemed doomed or mistaken,
Trying out my wings alone.

Then He came and I changed some, for better or worse,
But my flesh never gave up the fight.
I make a sow's ear out of every silk purse,
As I look to the wrong from the right.

I hear the beginning of wisdom is fear
Of The Lord and His mighty conviction.
I mostly feel angry, or my eyes fill with tears,
At my life's unresolved contradictions.

When I see His face, will I fall in disgrace,
Or throw my soul over the edge on His mercy?
I'd like to be strong, but I'm weak and I'm wrong,
And I feel like I'm only rehearsing.

So, what's the deal, all these years, He's more real
Than all my vain imaginations.
I cry 'Don't forsake me, Your answer might break me,
Jesus, make my life Your own creation.'

Jesus, make my life Your own creation.
This gift is too much for my choices.
I'm awakening to a rude revelation,
That I listen to all the wrong voices!

It's not just my ears, it's my aim,
And the attitudes that desecrate me.
Where's the guilt for the one who's to blame,
In the Grace that should come recreate me?

Jesus, please come recreate me

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