Innovative, organized and effective professional with valuable experience in classroom administration, professional development and project planning. Equipped with extensive background in versatile education environments. Student-centric instructor, academic facilitator and motivational coach. Diligent at performing independently or as member of teaching team. Well-versed in classroom and online technologies.
• Responsible for preparing evidence-based lesson plans aligned to district adopted curriculum, state standards, learning objectives and student’s IEP goals.
• Implementing long range plans for mastery and generalization, creating accommodations and modifications to instruction, curriculum, assessments and management based on individual student
strengths and needs, recording and reporting assessment and evaluation information.
• Differentiating instruction to bolster understanding and to provide the background knowledge needed to ensure each student has access to curriculum and state standard goals/objectives.
• Administering formal and informal assessments to assess student’s competency levels including progress, inform/modify instruction, and to provide early intervention/remediation when data reveals a need.
• Designing and implementing positive, proactive group management strategies to ensure pro social behavior and a classroom environment where all students feel respected, welcomed and safe.
• Contributing to IEP meetings by reporting observations and providing evidence through multiple measures of data recording including students’ strengths and needs
• Collaborating with families, teachers, paraprofessionals, specialists and members of the greater community to support a positive and enriching school experience for all.
• Directed class discussions to spark conversation about key concepts, complex problems and overarching themes.
• My 5th grade class earned the highest test scores in the state of Arizona for public education in 2023.