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Sharie Stelzel
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 harie Stelzel has
been teaching at the Elementary level for almost 20 years. She taught over five
years in Maryland before moving to Texas. For the last fourteen years Sharie has
taught at C. G. Sivells Elementary School in Wharton, Texas.
In her teaching career, Sharie has taught first, second, and third grade students, and has instructed math, reading, science, social studies, health, art, handwriting, spelling, and language arts as well as theatre arts. For the last ten years, Sharie has also enjoyed teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). Sharie was born in Washington, D.C., where she and her husband Harvey met. She has shared in the travels that 30 years in the Navy can bring. Harvey had been stationed on board a ship out of San Diego, and in countries in the Far East. Sharie was able to join him in Okinawa, Japan, California, and Washington, D.C. The Stelzels and their three children, Heidi, Holli, and Hans moved around a lot, but finally settled down in Harvey's hometown of Wharton, Texas in 1984. Sharie and her husband have one grandchild, Taylor Anne, who lives with her parents, Holli and Bill, in Key Largo, Florida. Hans lives and works there too. Their oldest daughter, Heidi, is a Deaf Interpreter in Wharton ISD. After four years in Texas, Sharie saw the need for more ESL teachers, to help so many new children entering the schools not knowing English. She had earned her Bachelors degree at Frostburg State in Maryland, but she went back to school at the University of Houston to obtain her ESL certification to help those students learn English. Besides teaching ESL, Sharie has been the ESL Coordinator for Wharton ISD. She has been a member of both the District and Campus Technology committees, and is also serving as a member of the TIF team that has the duty of using funds that have been awarded to the school district for technology. Even though Sharie has enjoyed working with students on computers since 1980, it was in December 1997 that the world of the Internet was made available to her and her ESL students. They explore the World Wide Web every chance they get, and have written to President Bill Clinton through a site called Kids Tour of the White House. Their most exciting project this year was the "100th Day Celebration Project" that enabled them to e-mail students all over the world! |
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