Hello, my name is Beth McCormick. I was born in the mid-west and raised on the west coast. I attended elementary school in Bellevue, Washington and graduated high school in Canby, Oregon. My college career began at Columbia Basin Community College (CBC), where I received a tennis scholarship for two years. I transferred to Central Washington University thru the off-campus program at CBC, and received my Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. I moved to CA in 1988, met my husband, and married a year later. We have two teenagers who attend the public schools in the Fallbrook district where I am also a substitute teacher. I hope to begin the Middle Level program in the fall.
I was considered fortunate to learn to type on an electric typewriter my senior year of high school. My first experience with computer technology began with a college course in Fortran and Pascal (anyone over 40 knows what I am talking about)! I learned Wang word processing as a college freshman when apple computers were just taking off. Through various jobs, I’ve learned to navigate pretty well thru Word, email, internet, and PhotoShop programs. I’m daily on the computer for email, banking and bill paying. I am most definitely a PC person at this point, although I am impressed with what the Mac can do after one class session. I am embarrassed to say that I just recently became the new owner of a flat-screen monitor, but I am thrilled to finally feel like I have graduated to the next level of home computer updating! We use latest Microsoft version, Windows Vista.
Years ago, I attended a ceremony at CSUSM to celebrate a friend’s graduation. She received her credential in special education, and I was inspired by the opportunities that teaching could provide. I believe that CSUSM has a reputation……it strives in every way to prepare its graduates to become great educators with a continuing effort to not only provide a quality education for their students, but to also embrace the significance of life-long learning in the ever-changing world in which we live. I chose to attend CUSUM based on this reputation, and also for the convenience and flexibility of the extended studies courses.
