Katherine M. Beukers
Claremont,CA
Summary
- Versatile Elementary Educator
- Classroom, home-school, tutoring, virtual, hybrid
- Urban and suburban distinguished teacher of ELL, multicultural, and special needs children.
- Collaborative and cooperative learning lead teacher
- Capitalizes on students' strengths
- Differentiates instruction and evaluation
- Cultivates self-directed critical and creative thinkers
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.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead teacher
- Extended Day Kindergarten, Allston Brighton
- Transitional Kindergarten, Dorchester, MA
- Lead teacher, supervised aide, developed new Program in urban, social service agency
Substitute Teacher
Foothill Country Day School
01.2022 - 01.2025
- Substitute Teacher, K-eight
- Instructional Assistant Grades K, three, four, five
Substitute Teacher
Scoot Education
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Substitute Teacher, K-8 Los Angeles County
- Long term substitute teacher, grade three, Rosemead, CA, Hybrid Education
Home-school teacher and tutor
01.2000 - 01.2020
Self-contained classroom teacher
Randolph Public Schools
01.1987 - 01.1999
- Randolph Public Schools, Massachusetts
- Commendable self-contained classroom teacher, grades 4and 5
- Science teacher for all grade 4 students
- Peer Coaching Training lead teacher
- Exemplary Cooperative Learning lessons
- Mentor of first-year teacher
- Student Council teacher advisor
- "Logic Club" teacher advisor
- Drama teacher
- School Improvement Plan Committee
- Math Curriculum Development Committee
- Randolph Public Schools, Massachusetts
Permanent substitute teacher
Boston Public Schools
01.1986 - 01.1987
- First-grade: permanent substitute teacher, John Marshall Elementary School
- Fifth-grade: student teacher, Exemplary
Education
B.A. - Communication Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
M.Ed. - Childhood Education
Boston University
Boston, Massachusettsundefined
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, ArizonaSkills
- Student mentoring
- Effective classroom management
- Customized learning strategies
- Educational leadership
- Effective parent-teacher communication
- Educational techniques
- Behavior modeling
- Facilitating group instruction
- Effective reading strategies
- Experiential learning
Accomplishments
- Employed Responsive Classroom techniques to encourage student learning and build community within the classroom.
- Curriculum Implementation - Taught reading, language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science to pupils utilizing course of study adopted by the Board of Education.
- Curriculum Development - Created and tailored educational curriculum to students with range of learning styles, neurodiversities, strengths and weaknesses.
- Targeted Development - Met with parents and guardians to discuss children's progress and to determine priorities and resource needs.
References
- Michael Silva msilva@foothillcds.org
- Sharon Hammill shammill@foothillcds.org
- Sarah Coeyman scoeyman@foothillcds.org
- Sydni Myrick-Causey scausey@foothillcds.org
- Jennifer Smith jsmith@foothillcds.org
Personal Information
Title: Katherine M. Beukers, M.Ed. Childhood Educator
Timeline
Substitute Teacher
Foothill Country Day School
01.2022 - 01.2025
Substitute Teacher
Scoot Education
01.2021 - 01.2022
Home-school teacher and tutor
01.2000 - 01.2020
Self-contained classroom teacher
Randolph Public Schools
01.1987 - 01.1999
Permanent substitute teacher
Boston Public Schools
01.1986 - 01.1987
Lead teacher
M.Ed. - Childhood Education
Boston University
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University of Phoenix
B.A. - Communication Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
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