1st Grade Teacher Resume Example

Enthusiastic Elementary School Teacher with superb leadership and communication skills offering a strong educational background and more than 13 years of teaching and facilitating experience. Easily cultivates trusting and productive relationships with students, parents, teachers and administration.

• Managed collaborative team experience through planning, coordinating and designating as team leader.

• Introduced new learning methods to ensure student engagement and understanding for all students.

• Employed special educational strategies and techniques during instruction in the general education classroom to improve the development of sensory/perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory of all students.
• Organized, planned, and taught Leveled Literacy Intervention as grade level reading specialist.
• Implemented Workshop Model in Reader's, Writer's and Math Workshop to guarantee differentiated instruction.
• Used both informal assessments and formal assessment data to guide instruction, small group intervention, guided reading and prescriptive tutoring.

• Collaboratively planned and conducted activities for a balanced program of instruction that provided students with hands-on opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.

• Served as a mentor to students when academic problems, attendance concerns and personal adjustments arose, meeting with or keeping in weekly or daily contact with parents to reach solutions.

• Regularly met with parents to discuss student issues and weak areas.