Mr. Tyler Cobb
Reading Teacher
Office: 262.783.7565, Ext. 254
Mr. Cobb taught 2nd grade at our neighboring parish, St. Mary's Visitation in Elm Grove, for 2 years before accepting a 4th grade teaching position at St. Dominic Catholic School in 2015. He transitioned to our Reading Teacher in 2018 and became a licensed Reading Specialist in 2020.
He is a proud alumnus of St. Dominic Catholic School and Catholic Memorial High School. He received his B.A. from St. Norbert College with a double major in Elementary education and Spanish and a minor in Mathematics. He continued his education receiving his M.A. in Education from Viterbo University, a Reading #17 Specialist License, and an International TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certificate.
Mr. Cobb believes that all students possess talents and strengths, and it is his responsibility as an educator to help the children he works with to discover and develop those talents and strengths. At the same time, it is his role every day to help all students grow toward becoming more respectful, inclusive, and understanding of others. He works to accomplish this together, through the words and actions of creativity, service, and love. While ultimately, he desires his students to become life-long learners, he also wants them to cultivate an understanding of what it means to become the best versions of themselves. It is through education that students gain knowledge, come to a greater understanding of the world, and develop social attitudes and acceptable behavior to develop into productive, functioning members of society.
As a teacher, he knows and understands the importance of continuous learning and self-improvement. Since Mr. Cobb started teaching, he has been blessed with several opportunities to serve others in our world. After graduating from St. Norbert College, he went on a summer mission trip to serve the people of La Sagrada Familia, a parish in the Dominican Republic. While there, he assisted teachers in a nutrition center for children, built latrines for families in rural communities, and taught English to children and adults. Eventually, that overall experience led him to become the translator for a medical team from his home parish that has since returned twice to the same area. The connections Mr. Cobb made in the Dominican Republic also provided him with an opportunity to serve a community in Bogotá, Colombia in the summer of 2017. These opportunities and experiences have given him a greater understanding of the world, a more open heart, and a stronger sense of mutual understanding. He has gained a much broader perspective of other cultures, challenged his skills and abilities, and developed an awareness to respond to the needs of humanity. Moreover, it is these experiences that have positively influenced his ability to relate to others, including his students. From each experience, Mr. Cobb has been able to share how learning also happens outside of the classroom. He has been able to communicate with them the extent to which the people, places, and situations have impacted him and his life as well as the lives of those around me.
In addition to garnering an awareness of information and the world around them, Mr. Cobb values the importance of developing social attitudes and acceptable behavior to assist students in becoming productive functioning members of society. Students must acquire skills in how to communicate respectfully and effectively with others. When he was a classroom teacher on the first day of school, he began by modeling appropriate body language, eye contact, and tone when meeting another person. He greeted his students at the door every morning with a warm smile, proper handshake, and friendly "Good Morning." In addition, they finished their week with something he called Closing Circle, which provided his students and him the opportunity to celebrate and show gratitude for the members of our classroom community who have demonstrated care, compassion, and selflessness toward others.
These moments of contact become much more than the curriculum itself can provide. They become a type of cultural instruction, which develops students' character and citizenship, fosters their ability to think critically and creatively, and encourages them to work collaboratively with others. Therefore, school is not only an integral part of the community. It is at the heart of the success of our community where our lives are enriched through an invaluable and meaningful education, an education that occurs both inside and outside of the classroom walls.