Dianna Benz

Promote childrens ability to learn through play and experience.

Facilitate a safe a nurturing classroom using age appropriate management skills.

Establish postivite and open communication with all families enrolled in the school.

Offer a safe environment for students to learn how to appropriately communicate their feelings.

Dedicated to ensuring health and safety standards were up to code as the school's QA embassador.

Responsible for providing a safe, nurturing environment, while implementing parental values. Demonstrates a calm and gentle demeanor with all children in any scenario.

Assists children in advocating for themselves in a respectful and benefical manner.

Provide personal care, maintain a schedule, and create and implement educational activities daily.

Experienced two long term placements, the first being in a kindergarten class (4 months) and the second was in a first grade (3 months).

Demonstrated the ability to maintain structure and follow set expectations and routines while creating an environment that is safe for all learners.

When not in long term placements flexibility was shown when asked to complete various assignments within the school. 

Responsible for creating educational and enteraining activites for students in upper elementary grades. 

Demonstrated the ability to create a safe space for all students to feel welcomed and listened to. 

Assisted various counselors on field trips while maintaing the saftey of all students involved. 

Responsible for planning instruction and delivering lessons to students for whole days. Experienced working with small groups including students on various levels with a range of abilities.

Experience with Illustrative Math and Pearson Investigations for math instruction. Utilized Teachers College for reading and writing curriculum.

Expected to assist students during instruction and guide their learning while creating a safe environment to learn and grow.

Maintain confidentiality regarding students personal and educational matters.

Experienced solo teaching for two months. Attended additional days during observation semester.

Responsible for being a programmer, policy enforcer, administrator, community builder, confidential resource, and role model.

Expected to maintain a high level of job performance and to always behave in an ethical manner and a manner that upholds university and departmental policy.

Exercise ethical decision-making skills and maintain open and honest two-way communication with supervisory staff regarding circumstances or issues that affect employment or this agreement.