Gail Ann Fitka
Teacher Aide

Gail was born in Bethel, Alaska, 1971. She was raised by her gram, Anna Teganlakla. She grew up here in Marshall and has lived here all of her life. She went to school here for eleven and a half years and to Mt. Edgecumbe for a half year. She graduated here on May 12,1989.

Gail went to college at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and studied Elementary Education, but she did not graduate. She has worked here at Marshall School as a teacher aide since October,1991. She plans to work here until she is ready to go back to college. She really likes her job because she's always wanted to be a teacher. She also likes her job because it gives her experience before she becomes a teacher.

Before she got her job as a teacher aide she worked as a computer aide here. At that time she was trained in how to use the four Atari's the school had. After a few months Olga and Gail switched jobs and then Gail was trained in how to be a Special Ed. aide. Now that Gail has her job, she still has to attend workshops held by the L.Y.S.D. where she learns about I.E.P.'s and all the other paperwork in Special Ed. She feels very strongly that her job keeps her stimulated because she is working with children whose special needs must be met. She says that you have to teach them in special ways in which they will learn and understand, and that you have to reteach everything.

The best thing about her job she says is seeing the children interested in learning. The worst thing is having to take the children to the office for bad behavior.

She has a family of three boys and one girl. She feels it is very difficult to work sometimes, especially when she has a hard time finding a babysitter.

Tassie Fitka