Joy L Miketzuk, A Bright Future

As can be imagined, having a passion for a variety of sports means that Joy L Miketzuk has no problem traveling. This fact is reflected in her career, which she traveled from New Jersey to New York City in order to achieve. Joy L Miketzuk is now recognized by the New York Teaching Fellows as an educator and has dedicated her working life to teaching children who need knowledge the most. Her passion for teaching, sports and succeeding in her chosen ambitions is just as strong as any other goal in her life and today she continues to prove it in the educational environment.

Indeed, Joy L Miketzuk seems to have taken it upon herself to harbor a number of hobbies in her spare time and bring them close to her heart. She has been described by others as making her free time as important as the time she spends in her very successful career as a teacher in an inner-city state school in New York City. Indeed, the importance she places on fully taking advantage of every second of her leisure time allows her to fully engage with the things that she enjoys most, and it is this which ensures Joy L. Miketzuk of a bright background and brighter future .

Indeed, as Joy L Miketzuk makes clear, she passionately enjoys sporting activities and events. Now a resident of New York City, Joy L Miketzuk attends many baseball games and is never far off when it comes to cheering on her favorite home team. Likewise, she participates in sports herself, but they are of an altogether different variety to baseball. Joy L Miketzuk is known for being a winter sports enthusiast and she frequently takes part in snowboarding, skiing, snow tubing, and other suchactivities whenever she has the chance.

Finding out what it is that makes people the way they are is one of the most important and enriching things to do with others and the answers can often surprise us. Joy L Miketzuk, a young woman who has captured the hearts and respect of many people in her many travels across the United States, is often described in such terms as, 'magnetic,' and, 'vibrant.' Her multifaceted personality and humanistic career provides other people with a source of inspiration for their own decisions in life and she is always happy to share her stories, experiences and anecdotes. Indeed, it is her many accumulated experiences that have made her the person she is today. Joy L. Miketzuk is very definitely an individual who serves as an admirable role model for her peers. Find out more about this gifted individual on Joy L. Miketzuk on vimeo.

Joy Miketzuk, Teacher and Snow Sports Enthusiast

 How many teachers do you know? Did you know them when they were first starting as a teacher? Did you ever see them? Probably very little--teaching is incredibly demanding on one’s time and energy, especially in the first couple of years. There are hours of lesson planning, classroom set-up, grading, administrative paperwork, and discipline issues to deal with. Teaching has been such a common profession for so many decades now that we sometimes forget everything it involves. The motto “work hard, play hard” sometimes becomes just “work hard…” unless one is dedicated to enjoying hobbies and getting out of the teaching world (or integrating hobbies into the teaching world) every now and then.

NYC area teacher Joy Miketzuk is both Sporting and Succeeding in her life as a teacher and a snow sports enthusiast. She loves skiing, snowboarding, snow tubing and other outdoor winter activities. New York is a great place in the winter to find these opportunities, but in the summer...she goes to baseball and basketball games! She also enjoys traveling, the beach, and cooking. She entered the New York City Teaching Fellows program to try and offer her well-rounded outlook to the kids of the inner city school district.

Completing the NYC Teaching Fellow program, Ms. Miketzuk gained a special certification for teaching in the inner city. Teaching Fellows are committed to teaching NYC’s diverse students, many of whom have special needs or are new immigrants or non-native English speakers, and to teaching critical-need subject areas, including math and science. Fellows are excellent teachers who advocate for their students and maximize their impact by tackling projects above and beyond their teaching duties, such as starting clubs, traveling to conferences, coaching sports, and building their school communities. The program helps its candidates to approach teaching holistically, realizing there is more to teaching than just explaining multiplication tables. 

Teaching is not a static position. Teachers these days are expected to have limitless energy, and be mentors and authority figures. It helps Ms. Miketzuk’s students when she can relate to them, and offer real-life wisdom combined with strong subject lessons. Combining her hobbies with her passion for teaching, Joy Miketzuk hopes to model Integrity in a Balanced Life to her students (as well as maintain the “...play hard” part of the mantra!).