Jordyn Bednar, English Teacher

Positive, creative, and compassionate ELA educator with practice in both online and in person learning. Advocator for an educators role in a child's personal growth as well as academic growth. Proficient in scaffolding instruction to best encourage inquiry based learning. Practiced in differentiated interactive teaching strategies that fit the needs of the students to keep them engaged with an active participation in their own learning.

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Avid reader and lover of all things english. Firm believer that good writers are born from good readers. From the ashes of mistakes is where our best work rises.

Color guard coach at Naperville North High School.

St Linus School (Oak Lawn, IL)

6th, 7th, 8th Grade English Teacher

Duties:

• Write and plan three separate english curriculums from scratch based on ISBE common core standards
• Write and plan a 6th grade social studies curriculum from scratch.
• Scaffold instruction to make up for gaps created in student learning from Covid years of school.
• Differentiate instruction for all students, including those with IEP and 504 needs.
• Give meaningful and constructive feedback on projects, papers, and tests.
• Monitor, facilitate, and encourage both the academic growth and the emotional/social growth of students.
• Communicate with parents and students both when they need help and when they are doing well.
• Use blooms taxonomy to build "I Can" statements to guide learning that follows Illinois State Standards.

Kaneland Harter Middle School (Sugar Grove, IL)

8th Grade ELA Teacher

Duties:

• Plan the semester's curriculum from scratch within a PLC.
• Differentiate instruction for all students, including those with IEP, 504, and ELL needs.
• Monitor, facilitate, and encourage both the academic growth and the emotional/social growth of students.
• Tutor students after school who have accumulated gaps in their learning due to online learning/Covid.
• Communicate with parents and students both when they need help and when they are doing well.
• Use blooms taxonomy to build "I Can" statements to guide learning that follows Illinois State Standards.
• Work with a Co-teacher to best meet the needs of IEP students.

Sycamore High School (Sycamore, IL) District 427

Duties

• Differentiated instruction for students with IEPs and 504s - Particularly a student with blind visual impairment
• Adapted to and Managed 3 different LMS systems
• Created materials, lessons, lesson plans, agenda slides, units, and class schedules/pacing (for online and in person learning)
• Utilized formal/informal formative assessments as well as formal summative assessments
• Communicated effectively with students and parents
• Contributed to PLC's

Through clinical observation and student teaching, I was able to learn and practice how to scaffold english instruction. Specifically, Covid-19 ensured that my time at Sycamore High School gave me experience both in "in person" learning and "online" learning. My co-operating teachers, colleagues, and I had to create an entirely new curriculum for our classes, built from the ground up to fit the needs of students in online remote learning.

English Clinical Experience

Dundee Crown High School (Clinical Observation 301)

• Differentiation for cultural and community backgrounds
• Observed and worked with IEP/504 students - specifically a student with blind/visual impairments

Through Clinical observation at multiple locations, I was exposed to a variety of student's communities and backgrounds. This provided valuable practice at differentiation for student prior knowledge, cultural background, and Maslow hierarchy needs.