Linda Cook
Summary
A fun-loving teacher with engaging nature and enthusiasm for classroom education. Experienced and trained in varying teaching methods with goal to fulfill each student's individual learning needs. Offering over twenty years of experience with passion for building strong rapport with faculty, students and caregivers.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Pre-K Teacher
La Petite Academy, Learning Care Group
05.2011 - Current
- Gave one-on-one attention to children while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
- Promoted physical, academic, and social development by implementing diverse classroom and outside activities.
- Implemented behavior modification strategies, resulting in improved self-regulation and classroom participation among students.
- Promoted social-emotional development with interactive lessons on empathy, conflict resolution, and self-regulation techniques.
- Educated students in foundational concepts such as shapes, numbers, and letters.
- Maintain excellent record keeping skills.
- Observed children to identify individuals in need of additional support and developed strategies to improve assistance.
- Ability to effectively communicate with and relate to individuals, parents, guardians, fellow-staff, customers, and company management to ensure the best care for the client at hand.
- Establishes rapport and promotes healthy professional relationships, upholding the company's commitment to the customer.
- Participated in ongoing professional learning opportunities to remain current on best practices in early childhood education.
Kindergarten Teacher
Miles Road Baptist Church Children's Learning Ctr.
05.1991 - 05.2011
- Built positive relationships with students and families for safe, trusted learning support.
- Enhanced classroom management by establishing clear expectations, rules, and routines.
- Assisted in creating a safe and nurturing classroom environment that promoted emotional well-being and academic growth for all students.
- Collaborated with colleagues to share resources, brainstorm ideas, and problem-solve challenges faced in the classroom environment.
- Promoted learning through play with engaging activities, games and lessons.
- Delivered lesson plans, implemented school curriculum and used data to create, monitor, and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
- Improved student reading skills by implementing A-Beka curriculum and guided reading activities.
- Monitored and evaluated student progress through regular assessments and observations.
- Utilized assessment data to modify instruction and target areas of weakness for individual students.
- Reported to parents and administration about student progress.
Education
No Degree - Accounting
Columbia Junior College of Business
Columbia, SCSkills
- Early Childhood Education
- Patience and Empathy
- Music and Movement
- Curriculum Planning
- Parent-Teacher Communication
- Child Supervision
- Group and individual instruction
- Assessment Strategies
- Progress Reporting
- Fine Motor Skills
- Tactile Teaching Methods
Timeline
Pre-K Teacher
La Petite Academy, Learning Care Group
05.2011 - Current
Kindergarten Teacher
Miles Road Baptist Church Children's Learning Ctr.
05.1991 - 05.2011
No Degree - Accounting
Columbia Junior College of Business