Kailey Morris

• Worked with classroom teacher to learn about current standards and best practices.
• Cultivated positive relationships with administration, teaching staff, and students.
• Monitored classrooms for safety and good behavior, offering students positive reinforcement to maintain discipline.
• Promoted positive and productive learning environment to increase engagement and rapport with students and teachers.
• Observed and participated in special learning opportunities to expand horizons and learn different approaches.
• Created and implemented different learning activities to meet needs of different types of learners.

• Communicated effectively with faculty and staff and accepted critiques and suggestions for areas of improvement.
• Reported back to instructor to receive day-to-day tasks and responsibilities.
• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators, to help students reach learning objectives.
• Supported student physical, mental, and social development using classroom games and activities.
• Kept students on-task with proactive behavior modification and positive reinforcement strategies.

For a class assignment, I had to go to Virginia Tech's Childcare Center, CDCLR, to observe students of different age levels and their development.

• Watched cooperating teacher and took notes on successful strategies
• Observed mastery of motor skills
• Watched interactions between children and their social development
• Observed and took notes on individual play