Diane Wyatt

• Instructed groups of students and provided individual support.
• Helped students develop self-esteem and life skills by fostering healthy conflict-resolution, critical thinking, and communication.
• Established and enforced rules of behavior to drive social development and maintain positive interactions.
• Drove student learning by studying assessment data and establishing clear classroom plans and group objectives, as well as actionable strategies to achieve each goal.
• Communicated in a positive manner with coworkers, students, families, staff and community stakeholders.
• Planned lessons, activities and trips to cover all required course material.
• Collaborated with parents, administrators and counselors to develop improvement plans for struggling students.
• Planned and implemented integrated lessons to meet standards.
• Participated in department meetings to provide input to colleagues about student achievement and improvement.
• Met with students, parents and administrators to address and resolve students' behavioral and academic issues.

After this position, I took time off to spend with my three children who were under the age of 5 at the time. After one year at home, I did accept a part-time job with a church nursery school before re-entering into public school full-time.