Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills.
I have been trained, and successfully implemented many different curriculums over the past 18 years, while teaching in room 6 at Phillips. Some of my trainings include: Success For All reading roots and wings, Benchmark Education, Discovery Education, Imagine Learning, Dream Box, Seesaw, Renaissance, Star Phonics, Bridges in Mathematics, Second Step, and Rainbow. I have taught 1st grade for 13 years. I have taught a kinder/1st and 1st/2nd grade combination class. Furthermore, I am always willing to teach combination classes. I Zoomed with A.M. 1st and P.M. 2nd. I taught A.M. in-person, and P.M. Zoom in room 6. I am currently teaching 2nd grade. Before Phillips, in 2003, I earned a Certificate of National Service from AmeriCorps. And, way back in May of 2000 I earned an Associate Degree in Child Family Studies. While putting myself through college I worked at different daycare's part time and with Child Start incorporated. Because of this background I enjoy working with younger students. Lastly, in the past 18 years I've never missed a day of work. Except for the mandatory times of course. Thank you for your time and hopeful consideration.