Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Gifted/Yearbook Teacher
Legacy Traditional School
Phoenix, AZ
07.2018 - Current
Screen and identify potential gifted students in order to provide appropriate services.
Attend workshops, conferences and continuing education classes to learn latest trends in gifted education.
Build and strengthened positive relationships with students, parents and teaching staff.
Create lesson plans and chose supporting materials to promote positive learning experiences.
Use DOK questions and Depth and Complexity Icons to promote higher level critical and creative thinking.
Implement high interest STEM and hands-on project based curriculum.
Differentiate curriculum according to individual student needs.
Supervised students while they worked on various aspects of the yearbook production process.
Provided guidance and support to students as needed throughout the duration of the project.
Encouraged creative ideas from students to ensure that their vision is represented in the final product.
Created strategies to promote sales of the completed yearbooks.
Gifted Teacher
Pendergast Elementary School District
Phoenix, AZ
07.2014 - 05.2017
Create and maintain positive, orderly and academically focused learning environment for gifted students.
Create flexible schedules to provide optimal opportunities for gifted students.
Screen and identify potential gifted students in order to provide appropriate services.
Plan and implement lessons using various teaching strategies to meet diverse student needs.
Create and enforce child-based, hands-on curriculum to promote student interest and receptive learning.
Conquer challenges of working with highly diverse student population to attain exceptional student achievement.
Hold conferences with parents to address questions, discuss academic progress and encourage learning goals.
Guest Teacher
Pendergast Elementary School District
Phoenix, AZ
08.2001 - 05.2014
Teach all areas of curriculum.
Communicate high expectations and clear learning goals to students.
Create, encourage, and maintain a positive learning environment.
Assess and record students development.
Perform all duties as assigned to a teacher in their absence.
Interventionist
Pendergast Elementary School District
Phoenix, AZ
07.2004 - 05.2005
Research and help a team choose explicit, systematic reading programs for struggling readers.
Analyze DIBELS data to identify specific reading gaps and identify students needing Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.
Collaborate with teachers to form small reading group based on student needs.
Consistently reevaluate data and work with teachers help students reach benchmark reading goals.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
Arizona State University
Accomplishments
Special Area lead teacher for past 5 years.
Organized and ran school speech contest for last 6 years.
Spelling Bee pronouncer for last 2 years.
Oversaw yearbook class and creation of the school yearbook for last 6 years.
Organized and ran Special Area CTM meeting for past 5 years.
Participated in yearbook committee to update curriculum.
Participated in gifted committee and submitted unit lesson plans to update curriculum.
Participated in Pride Day committee to organize and run quarterly student reward events.