Morgan Constantino

Dedicated, highly motivated, and enthusiastic education professional with experience teaching elementary and upper special education. Accommodating and versatile individual with the drive to develop inspiring hands-on lessons that will capture a child’s imagination.

Reading Specialist Practicum Summer 2023                                                                                                                         

Latrobe Reading Center

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement effective reading programs tailored to various ages, skill levels, and learning styles.

• Proficient in conducting informal reading assessments to identify instructional strengths and needs by using data to inform instructional strategies.

• Skilled in implementing evidence-based interventions and strategies for students experiencing difficulties in reading comprehension, fluency, decoding, and vocabulary.

• Capable of adapting teaching methods and materials to meet diverse learning needs within a classroom or one-on-one setting.

• Ability to analyze reading assessment data to track student progress, adjust teaching methods, and demonstrate growth.

• Experience in developing and aligning reading curricula with educational standards and best practices.

Norwin School District, Spring 2022                                                                                                                                                                                Sheridan Terrace Elementary School

General Education: Second Grade English Language Arts and Reading

• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ needs and  interests.

• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those  objectives to students.

• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and  use, both in learning activities and hands-on engagements

• Attended and presented a community service proposal at a building advisory meeting.

• Observed and attended three IEP meetings.

• Organized and planned faculty events.

• Worked one-on-one with students who have emotional support, learning support,  and intellectual disability.

• Utilized Google Classroom while teaching remote as well as in person students.

Norwin Middle School

Special Education: Seventh-Eighth Grade Autistic Learning Support Classroom

• Developed and implemented strategies to meet the needs of students with a varying  level of disabilities.

• Employed special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to  improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language,  cognition, or memory.

• Taught socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior  modification or positive reinforcement.

• Taught students’ personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, or  self-advocacy.

• Observed and attended two Individualized Education Plan meetings.

• Observed and assisted the writings of an Individualized Education Plan.

Reading PLC: 7 Mighty Moves

• Professional developed that discusses research- based, classroom tested strategies to implement into the classroom to reach students who struggle to read. Focused on a critical area of foundational reading- from the most efficient ways to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to the most effective ways to boost comprehension.

Structured Literacy

• Learned about the importance of implementing evidence-based intervention practices on structured literacy into the classroom. Gained knowledge on explicit and systematic instruction about he following reading components: phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, decoding/ encoding, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension and building content knowledge

Combat the NAEP Reading Score Slump

• Focused on actionable strategies for helping older students (grades 4-8) make rapid reading gains

Mindfulness in the Classroom

• Learned about the importance of implementing mindfulness into the classroom learning by integrating it into the curriculum.

Classroom Management and Real Virtual

• Gained more knowledge and information about the different ways to manage a classroom with the integration of technology.

Teaching the Future Conference

• Experienced various methods and strategies to engage learners during instructional activities.

Standards Aligned System (S.A.S) – Maintaining Accurate Records

• Explored the various processes of keeping accurate records of instructional and non instructional events, including completion of assignments, student progress in  learning, school records outside of the classroom, and maintaining these records.

- Elementary Education PreK- 4th

- Special Education K-12th

- Reading Specialist K-12th

• Pennsylvania State Education Association
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Alpha Lambda Delta

Mrs. Vanessa Boyd

Relation: Current School Principal (Broad Street Elementary School)

Phone: (724)- 513-3863

Email: vanessa.boyd@basdk12.org

Dr. Dana Winters

Relation: Former employer and professor (Fred Rogers Institute)

Phone: (724) 255- 2822

Email: dana.winters@stvincent.edu

Mrs. Sarah Goehring

Relation: Supervisor (Fred Rogers Institute)

Phone: (443)-545-4658

Email: sarah.goehring@stvincent.edu

Mrs. Patricia Soforic

Relation: Reading Specialist Supervisor and Professor

Phone: (724)-961-0137

Email: patricia.soforic@stvincent.edu

Mrs. Deborah Fischer

Relation: Student Teaching Supervisor

Phone: (412)-759-1166

Email: deborah.fischer@stvincent.edu

Mrs. Kimberly Knouse

Relation: Cooperating Teacher (2nd Grade)

Phone: (724) 861-3025

Email: kknouse@norwinsd.org

Mrs. Amanda Votjko

Relation: Cooperating Teacher (Autistic Learning Support)

Phone: (412) 996-6884

Email: avojtko@norwinsd.org