About Mona lisa tello
Bilingual (Spanish and English) educator Mona Lisa Tello commands 15 years of experience teaching various sciences, including biology, chemistry, at the high school level. Ms. Tello most recently taught earth science, forensics, biology in English and in Spanish at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts in New York City’s district. Collegiately trained as a High School Science school administrator at Mercy College, Mona Lisa Tello infused her science curricula with materials from mathematics, arts, technology, and research, thus providing her students with interdisciplinary training and preparation for real-world scenarios.
Mona Lisa Tello has a distinguished background in science, both as an educator and a researcher. She earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Pre-medicine from InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico before pursuing a career in teaching. In Puerto Rico and in other tropical locations around the globe, she has studied the plant world and performed such laboratory work as cross-pollinating orchids and ferns. She research extensively the rainforest of Puerto Rico inclusively the efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot from extinction from the effects of human impact on the environment. So enamored she was of the Puerto Rican Parrot that she designed created a nine-foot, walking Puerto Rican parrot a puppet similar to Big Bird of sesame street. It was used in a publicity campaign.
Over the years, she has brought her experience in plant biology to the classroom, including directing pumpkin-growing projects, organizing experiments in plant genetics, and managing the High School of Graphic Communication Arts’ Living Environment labs. She demonstrated and had students participate in the class room in artificial insemination with sea urchins a project she sponsored herself.
Mona Lisa Tello took the students from Graphics Communication Arts high School on numerous trips to the museum of natural history to study for their regents exams and to enrich their knowledge of the topics in the Living Environment Curriculum.
As a teacher, Mona Lisa Tello worked tirelessly to help her students exceed. In addition to teaching night and weekend courses for New York State Regents Exams, she developed a model classroom that displayed student work and inspired her pupils to pursue careers in science and related fields. She also mentored new teachers and developed multimedia instructional resources to guide educators in leading biology and other science classes for language learners at different levels.
Mona Lisa Tello holds her New York State permanent teaching certifications for biology (grades 9 through 12), general science, and bilingual extensions of sciences.
Mona Lisa Tello has a distinguished background in science, both as an educator and a researcher. She earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Pre-medicine from InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico before pursuing a career in teaching. In Puerto Rico and in other tropical locations around the globe, she has studied the plant world and performed such laboratory work as cross-pollinating orchids and ferns. She research extensively the rainforest of Puerto Rico inclusively the efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot from extinction from the effects of human impact on the environment. So enamored she was of the Puerto Rican Parrot that she designed created a nine-foot, walking Puerto Rican parrot a puppet similar to Big Bird of sesame street. It was used in a publicity campaign.
Over the years, she has brought her experience in plant biology to the classroom, including directing pumpkin-growing projects, organizing experiments in plant genetics, and managing the High School of Graphic Communication Arts’ Living Environment labs. She demonstrated and had students participate in the class room in artificial insemination with sea urchins a project she sponsored herself.
Mona Lisa Tello took the students from Graphics Communication Arts high School on numerous trips to the museum of natural history to study for their regents exams and to enrich their knowledge of the topics in the Living Environment Curriculum.
As a teacher, Mona Lisa Tello worked tirelessly to help her students exceed. In addition to teaching night and weekend courses for New York State Regents Exams, she developed a model classroom that displayed student work and inspired her pupils to pursue careers in science and related fields. She also mentored new teachers and developed multimedia instructional resources to guide educators in leading biology and other science classes for language learners at different levels.
Mona Lisa Tello holds her New York State permanent teaching certifications for biology (grades 9 through 12), general science, and bilingual extensions of sciences.