Mrs Insalaco is a junior high school English teacher for the orange team. I interviewed her about her life outside of school. She teaches in the junior high because the position she interviewed for was originally to be a teacher in the high school but it got changed to a junior high teacher position last minute. But she enjoys teaching in junior high better, because “I always gravitated towards junior high” but during college she thought about elementary education.
As a teacher she handles stress by going on a walk this summer. She “Walked 6 miles a day in the summer.” but during school she walks 3 miles and if the weathers bad she goes on the treadmill. As an English teacher she admits that she isn’t a fast reader and her “a lot of kids always assume that I’m a really fast reader.” and students are often surprised to hear that she is a slow reader.
She is a mother to two preteens, and she says that being a teacher has helped her be a better mother because she understands her kids more and she understands how much her kids do for school and has “an appreciation for how much they have to do.”
She uses her own experiences as a teacher to teach her own kids. On her free days she’s either at her kids’ activities such as her sons’ travel hockey games and her daughter’s lacrosse games. “We also go to a lot of RIT Hockey games” and she says spending time as a family brings them closer together.
During her school breaks she usually slows down and spends time with her family at home. And “Every spring break we usually go to Florida.” to visit their grandparents. Mrs. Insalaco’s dream place to go in Italy “I’ve already been there two times, but it’s a place that I want to go back to and I would love to actually like to live there one day to buy property there and to live there one day.”
When I asked Mrs.Insalaco what she would do if she was the last person on earth, she responded with “I would enjoy the freedom of not having to wait for anything.” because she explains that she doesn’t like waiting around. She talks about how she would go into museums and cities that are usually really busy and “having the freedom to go through it and not having to worry about crowds or, you know, lots of busy things going on.”
Mrs. Insalaco is a good teacher and cares about her family and her job.
