Contact Me

• Email: sue.moraska@hccs.edu
• Phone: 713.718.6833
• Office: JB Whitely Bldg. 101b

Courses

 Spring 2007

• COMG 1006 Basic English II
• COMG 1003 Beginning Math I
• POFT 1006 Work Etiquette
• POFT 1006 Job Preparation/Internship

Biography and Teaching Philosophy

EDUCATION:

Associates Degree in Social Services-Ferris State College, Big Rapids, MI 1981

Bachelor of Science in Special Education- Eastern Michigan University 1984

Masters in Education- Houston Baptist University 1994

EXPERIENCE:

Counselor/Clinician-Shadybrook Learning Center/Summer Camp, CT 1985

Special Ed. Teacher-HISD 1985-1986

Special Ed. Teacher-Alief ISD 1986-1989

Special Ed. Teacher-HISD 1989-1990

HCC-Central Life Skills Instructor /PT 1990-1991

HCC-Central Life Skills Instructor/FT 1992- 1993]

• Further developed program, renamed to VAST.
• Wrote and received a grant to develop Office Skills 1993
• Implemented new Office Skills Program 1993-1994

HCC- Central Program Manager for VAST/Office Skills 1993-Present

Awards:

• Diversity Award from HCC Project SOAR 1995
• Chancellor's Medalion 1997

Program Awards:

Local:

• Leadership Houston 1992 Life Skills Program

State:

• TACSCE Award 2004

National:

• President's New Freedom Award 2002, from the U.S. Dept. of Labor

Teaching Philosophy Famous Quotes:

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

"Chinese proverb"

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

Linda Conway

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.

William B. Yeats, poet

• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

           Helen Keller

Motivational Quotes:

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- Saint Francis

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt