Rebecca Sandberg
Arvada,CO
Summary
Attentive and creative professional passionate about helping young children develop emotional, social and educational skills. Familiar with developmentally appropriate activities and experienced by providing nurturing environments conducive to learning. Promote physical, emotional and social health to complement academic progress.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Pre-K Teacher
The Goddard School of Arvada (Ward)
Arvada, CO
09.2023 - Current
- Working with the bridges classroom with children that range from 2 1/2 to 3 years of age.
- Use COR Advantage to collect assessment date for each child.
- Created portfolios for each child filled with their artwork to assess where they’re at developmentally.
- Communicates with parents to keep up on child’s daily report and at the beginning and end of the day having conversations with parents.
- Collaborating with families on behavioral plans.
- Experience with developing plans on the spot in the classroom if teachers are out.
- Flexible
- Collaborative with other staff in the building
- Experience working in pre k room, teaching large group lessons self thought and including the kids when teaching language art and math lessons
- Training other staff members
- Assisting in the office.
- Talking to families and building relationships.
- Filing children files.
- Graduation photos for transitioning Kindergarteners.
Director
STARS KID CARE
Denver, CO
03.2023 - 09.2023
- Develop lesson plans and activities.
- Helping parents with registration and CCAP.
- Guide children to their classrooms and do a name to face check.
- Follow the guidelines when planning activities S:Safety, T:Teamwork, A:Activities, R:Respect, S:Service.
- Guide licensing throughout the building when they arrive.
- Run summer program with fellow directors or 40 children or more.
- Working with ages ranging from K-8.
- Working with 15 children alone.
- Working with large groups.
- Advertising the company and gathering children paperwork and licensing paperwork.
- Recruited, trained, supervised, evaluated and mentored staff members.
- Established relationships with vendors and suppliers to secure favorable terms for materials or services.
- Served as a public spokesperson at industry events or conferences.
- Assessed employee performance against established benchmarks or targets.
Special Needs Preschool Paraprofessional
Mapleton Public Schools
Thornton, CO
12.2021 - 03.2023
- Instructional Special Needs Paraprofessional
- Helps teacher in the classroom prepare for upcoming curriculum for the upcoming weeks. Prep works looks like coming up with table activities, helping prepare the activities that are planned, making copies for the teacher, being creative with drawing curriculum-based art for the kids.
- Leading small reading and math groups.
- Working with kids that have special needs and working individually with them while the lead teacher focuses on larger group instruction.
- Leading the classroom and taking over teacher responsibilities when the teacher is out of the classroom.
- Implemented a curriculum called, "Dinosaur Program."
- Implemented regulation strategies for students
- Participated in field trips with students.
Toddler Lead Teacher
The Goddard School Reunion
Commerce City, CO
09.2021 - 11.2022
- Creating and implementing lesson plans
- Taking care of children IEP
- Created individual portfolios for each student that included assessment data, samples of work and photographs.
- Creating routine for classroom
- Developing lesson plans on Tadpoles
- Subbing in for other lead teachers
- Working with children ranging from infants up to 5 years old
- Incorporated music into everyday activities through singing songs or dancing together which encouraged creativity among the students.
Lead Preschool Teacher
Primrose School at the Flatirons
Broomfield, CO
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Followed and created lesson plans weekly.
- Creative with lessons and enhanced centers weekly
- Worked with 2 1/2 and promoted to the preschool room and worked with 3-4 year olds
- Managed classroom on my own
- Trained other teachers in classroom
- Worked with 5 children in class that had an IEP or learning disabilities
- Worked with infants for 6 months that ranged from 6 babies ages from 2 months up to a year.
- Opened a closed preschool classroom from COVID and organized from scratch all curriculum books in order from when introduced from the year prior.
- Maintained accurate records of student assessments
- Observed and documented students' growth and development throughout the year.
- Monitored classroom supplies and inventory and worked with the director for unopened preschool classroom and what was missing.
Lead Preschool Teacher
The Goddard School Arvada
Arvada, CO
07.2020 - 08.2021
- Takes on responsibilities for assessments
- Working with children with developmental delays or special needs in the classroom,
- Implementing and creating curriculum weekly for the classroom and handling the classroom and being able to take on responsibilities of alone in the room.
- Worked with preschool age children.
- Worked 4x10's working with another preschool classroom as a team and communicating especially if a teacher was going to be out.
- Provided guidance counseling services when necessary in order to help students resolve conflicts or personal issues.
- Planned and implemented developmentally appropriate activities to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs of children.
- Monitored classroom supplies inventory levels and ordered new items as needed.
Lead Preschool Teacher
Primrose School at the Flatirons
Broomfield , CO
07.2019 - 07.2020
- Followed and created lesson plans weekly.
- Creative with lessons and enhanced centers weekly
- Worked with 2 1/2 and promoted to the preschool room and worked with 3-4 year olds
- Managed classroom on my own
- Trained other teachers in classroom
- Worked with 5 children in class that had an IEP or learning disabilities
- Worked with infants for 6 months that ranged from 6 babies ages from 2 months up to a year.
- Opened a closed preschool classroom from COVID and organized from scratch all curriculum books in order from when introduced from the year prior.
- Maintained accurate records of student assessments
- Observed and documented students' growth and development throughout the year.
- Monitored classroom supplies and inventory and worked with the director for unopened preschool classroom and what was missing.
Assistant Teacher
Vanderhoof Elementary
Arvada, CO
08.2017 - 01.2019
- Helped maintain a safe and orderly learning environment.
- Helped teacher in the classroom with sight word reading assessment.
- Worked with a diverse need of students that were behind and needed support from missing school.
- Designed small group projects and instructions.
- Assisted teacher in the classroom with assessments, paperwork and filing students work.
- Created developmentally appropriate lesson plan activities for 2nd graders.
- Supervised small group activities.
Education
High School Diploma -
Arvada West High School
Arvada, CO05-2019
Some College (No Degree) - Early Childhood Education
Aims Community College
Greeley, COSome College (No Degree) - Elementary Education
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZBachelor of Science - Child Psychology
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, COSkills
- Early Childhood Education
- Motor Skill Development
- Mathematics Instruction
- Social-emotional learning
- Progress Reporting
- Documentation And Reporting
- Group and individual instruction
- Special Needs Support
- First-aid and CPR
- Child Supervision
- Outdoor Learning
- Science Exploration
- Parent-Teacher Communication
- Creative Teaching Strategies
- Classroom Management
- Classroom Organization
- Activity Planning
- Lesson Planning
- Child Development
- Training in food handling preparation
- Calm and patient
- Social Skills Development
- Observational skills
- Schedule creation and maintenance
- Certified in Early Childhood Education
- Effective Communication
- Educational Games
Certification
- Child Development Association Certificate
- Early Childhood Credential 2.0
Timeline
Lead Pre-K Teacher
The Goddard School of Arvada (Ward)
09.2023 - Current
Director
STARS KID CARE
03.2023 - 09.2023
Special Needs Preschool Paraprofessional
Mapleton Public Schools
12.2021 - 03.2023
Toddler Lead Teacher
The Goddard School Reunion
09.2021 - 11.2022
Lead Preschool Teacher
Primrose School at the Flatirons
01.2021 - 08.2021
Lead Preschool Teacher
The Goddard School Arvada
07.2020 - 08.2021
Lead Preschool Teacher
Primrose School at the Flatirons
07.2019 - 07.2020
Assistant Teacher
Vanderhoof Elementary
08.2017 - 01.2019
High School Diploma -
Arvada West High School
Some College (No Degree) - Early Childhood Education
Aims Community College
Some College (No Degree) - Elementary Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Child Psychology
Metropolitan State University of Denver