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Elk Ridge Middle School ** Greetings! I am Mr. Simpson and teach at Elk Ridge Middle School, Jordan School District, located at the corner of Bangerter Highway and 9800 South in South Jordan, Utah. My current teaching responsibilities include CTE Introduction (formerly called TLC) and Keyboarding. In the CTE Intro courses I am the fourth instructor of a normally three teacher team, so in addition to teaching the various CTE Intro Activities that are common to each area of instruction, my classes focus on a variety of areas that include: numeric keypad training, cashiering, human resources and economics. In our keyboardings classes we use a combination of computer programs and text instruction. Students in this class will hopefully increase their keying speed to at least 35 words per minute and will gain knowlege and practice preparing a number of different communications documents and reports.
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I have been teaching business and career and technical education (CTE) type classes since 1996, when I started teaching high school in Tracy, California. I retired from teaching in California at the end of the 2007 school year, when my wife and I moved to Sandy, Utah. My prior non-teaching experience, which helped prepare me for and direct me towards teaching includes time spent as an insurance underwriter, sales and sales management and para-legal work within the US Army (25+ years).