Katelyn Monroe

• Built and strengthened positive relationships with students, parents and teaching staff.
• Differentiated instruction according to student skill level.
• Helped students build learning and study skills to achieve educational goals.
• Assisted fellow teachers with assignment development, special projects, tests, administrative updates and grading.
• Monitored student progress using exams and assignments to check for thorough understanding.
• Scheduled and held parent-teacher conferences to keep parents up-to-date on children's academic performance.
• Worked outside normal hours to be available to answer parent and student questions.
• Combined discipline plan with effective measures and lesson plans to increase concentration, participation and progress student accountability.
• Established course websites to make updated handouts and other resources available to students.
• Maintained positive classroom environments by reinforcing rules for behavior and relationship-building actions.
• Encouraged positive self-esteem and mutual respect for others while instilling joy of learning and discovery.
• Attended in-service training and professional development courses to stay on top of policy and education changes.
• Worked with parents, administrators and counselors to develop improvement plans for struggling students.
• Designed modules integrating educational technology such as Google classroom.

• Used children's literature to teach and reinforce reading, writing, grammar and phonics.
• Developed interesting course plans to meet academic, intellectual and social needs of students that encompassed multimedia learning tools.
• Mentored and counseled students with adjustment and academic problems.
• Conquered the challenges of working with a highly diverse student population to attain exceptional student achievement.
• Tutored children individually and in small groups to help with difficult subjects.
• Encouraged students to persevere with challenging tasks.
• Developed and implemented interesting and interactive learning media to increase student understanding of course materials.
• Observed and assessed student performance, keeping thorough records of progress.
• Earned positive feedback from parents regarding classroom instruction and student learning success.
• Maintained positive classroom environments by reinforcing rules for behavior and relationship-building actions.
• Maintained safe, clean, and organized classroom environment.
• Improved student engagement by implementing student-centered classroom management techniques to foster academic curiosity.
• Worked with school administrators to develop classroom management policies for grade level.
• Referred to district standards to plan lessons and prepare students to take standardized assessments.

Worked in office, filing, phoning and communicating with parents.  Also helped with financial organization for the company.