Focused on building connections with students to strengthen engagement and help each reach full potential through skill-building. Knowledgeable about planning activities, field trips and projects to diversify instruction and immerse students in higher order thinking skills, problem solving, affective learning, and a lifelong love of learning. Bringing thirty one years of experience in education.
Skills
Team collaboration
Effectively work with parents
Behavioral/cognitive skills development
Actively inspire knowledge
Specialize in the unique characteristics and needs of intellectually gifted students
Tutoring and coaching
Effective listening
Parent/teacher conferences
Classroom discipline
Differentiated instruction specialist
Positive student engagement
CPR/First-aid certified
Interdisciplinary teaching
Differentiated learning techniques
Experience
Gifted Education Teacher, 08/1993 - Current Cumberland Therapy Services, Inc. – Chicago, IL,
Screened and identified potential gifted students in order to provide appropriate services.
Sourced materials and information to create positive environment to meet exceptional needs of gifted students.
Attended workshops, conferences and continuing education classes to learn latest trends in gifted education.
Assisted in writing of gifted program proposal to be reviewed and approved by Monroe County School Board and submitted for state approval.
Created and maintained positive, orderly and academically focused learning environment for gifted students.
Participated in workshops, trainings and conferences to improve educational skills.
Led students through safety procedures, including active shooter and fire drills.
Organized and led trips to New York City for students and parents.
Set and communicated ground rules for classroom based on respect and personal responsibility.
Researched new teaching tools and resources to use in classroom.
Participated in educational workshops to learn new techniques to bolster student participation in class.
Developed interesting course plans with multimedia learning tools to meet academic, intellectual and social needs of students.
Planned and implemented lessons using variety of teaching strategies to meet diverse student needs.
Created and enforced child-based hands-on curriculum to promote student interest and receptive learning.
High School Archery Coach, 08/2013 - 05/2019 Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 – Fountain, CO,
Attended training provided by Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Purchased private lessons from a nationally ranked archer to improve my abilities with a bow in order to pass those skills on to my team
Gathered funding from outside sources to cover initial cost of beginning the archery program
Successfully began the program finishing second in the state our first year.
Remedial Reading Teacher, 08/1991 - 05/1993 Smithville Attendance Center – City, STATE,
Provided intensive tutoring in reading strategies and components to improve student performance in reading comprehension and ability.
Encouraged independent reading in underachieving students by providing high interest recreational reading materials to students.
Kindergarten Teacher, 08/1988 - 05/1991 Greenwood Springs School – City, STATE,
Maximized receptive learning and retained student interest.
Formed deep relationships with parents and students by engaging groups through conferences, emails, texts and phone calls.
Integrated technology into lesson plans.
Monitored student progress to ensure cooperation and growth.
Referred to district standards to plan lessons and prepare students to take standardized assessments.
Instructed students in standardized subjects as well as general learning strategies and skills for social development and character.
Taught children ages basic reading and alphabetical skills.
Designed lesson plans based on comprehensive teaching of academic, social and personal skills.
Improved student engagement by implementing student-centered classroom management techniques to foster academic curiosity.
Developed assessments to test student growth.
Fostered language development, comprehension and vocabulary using traditional poetry, nursery rhymes and riddles.
Guided reading aloud to spark imagination and foster reading comprehension as well as vocabulary development.
Motivated and supported students in growing reading independence using methodical, sensory lessons on phonemic awareness and decoding by sounding out words.
Monitored, documented and reported students' progress and performance.
Organized and assigned duties for teacher assistants and volunteers.
Created and organized annual kindergarten play/program
Organized and developed kindergarten class participation in the school Halloween carnival and spring field day
Education and Training
Master of Science: Elementary Education, Expected in 08/1992 - Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS GPA:
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