Experienced educator dedicated to creating a developmentally stimulating, safe and engaging environment for young children. Seeking a substitute classroom teacher position as needed.
• Taught 1st grade for four years
• Facilitated professional development opportunities for colleagues
• Taught students with a variety of special needs
• Taught 1st grade for one year, and a high needs 1st/2nd grade split class for one year
• 2016-2017 Student Council Sponsor
• Taught students with a variety of special needs (e.g., ADHD, ED, ODD, MR, etc..)
• Member of Literacy Night Committee
• Taught 1st grade for four years and kindergarten for one year
• Wrote, organized, and headed a Christmas reading program, “Season’s Readings”
• Taught students with a variety of special needs (e.g., Asperger’s, Autism, ODD, ADHD, Down Syndrome, etc.)
• Initiated, organized, and facilitated the first annual Family Literacy Night, “Be a Super Hero: Read With Your Child”
July 2007-May 2010 Classroom Teacher
• Taught 2nd grade for two years and 4th grade for one year
• Served on a vertical math committee
• Planned, organized, and headed the first annual “2nd Grade Fairy Tale Ball”
• Served as a “model classroom” for a week-long professional development for Reading First
• Facilitated graduate level independent study courses
• Assisted Associate Professor of Education in teaching responsibilities
• Assisted in hosting numerous young adult authors (e.g., Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Pam Munoz Ryan, and Bruce Coville) for a
Young Adult Author Series, Harding University, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007