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Resume

Working with my passion for helping children reach their intellectual and personal development potential.

Certification
Awards Received
Mason County Eastern Schools, Classroom Teacher

2010 - present

 

  • Current First Grade Teacher

  • Experience as First, Third and Fifth Grade teacher

  • Creates and implements daily lessons and assessments aligned with Common Core State Standards

  • Creates and manages safe classroom environment incorporating at-risk students and Behavior Plans to help students succeed

  • Participates as member on Student Assistant Team providing support for students struggling in current classroom setting

  • Facilitates discovery learning opportunitities, including Rich Math Tasks, that promote Higher Level Thinking

  • Engages students by focusing on student interest and need and conducts classroom lessons to meet needs of Multiple Intelligences

 

 

PCMI Powered by WillSubSubstitute Teacher

2010

 

  • Assume responsibility for classroom for assigned time period and full-class instruction

 

 

Mason County Eastern SchoolsStudent Teacher

Winter 2010

 

  • Assumed all teaching responsibilities in a Fourth Grade classroom in a rural school

  • Created entire and taught part of a Social Studies unit and additional lessons addressing multiple intelligences and thinking levels that follow Michigan's Grade Level Content Expectations

  • Attended Parent/Teacher Conferences and Profressional Development and participated in meetings about student's special education services

  • Assisted with field trips

  • Monitored students in lunchroom, hallway, and assemblies

 

 

Grand Rapids Public SchoolsTeacher Assistant

Fall 2009

 

  • Provided indvidulilzed and small group assistance to Second Grade students in a multi-cultural, urban school with multi-lingual students

  • Led whole-class tasks and "Sustained Silent Reading" conferencing with students

  • Designed and created various types of whole-class lessons

  • Assisted Cooperating Teacher with daily running of classroom, classroom preperations, and participated in school open house

  • Assisted with reading interventions

  • Dean's List, Eight Semesters (Grand Valley State University)

  • I Am Grand Valley", Student Leadership Recognition

  • J. Patrick Sandro Education Scholorship Recipient

  • Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

Michigan Provisional Certificate (Initial)

Michigan State University

2013 - present

 

Master of Arts in Education

Concentration: Special Education

 

 

Grand Valley State University

​2005 - 2010

 

Bachelor of Science

Major: Group Social Studies; Emphasis: History

Minor: Elementary Distributed

 

Related Experience

 

Education

   (2013 - 2015)

   (2009)

   (2008)

Tutoring Experience

 

 

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