Regina Kulidas

• Implemented lesson plans to facilitate student learning in various subject areas.
• Adapted instructional materials to meet diverse student needs and learning styles.
• Maintained classroom management to create a positive and engaging learning environment.
• Delivered instructional support in diverse classroom settings, adapting to various teaching styles and student needs.

• Regular, special education, and preschool for all students in one classroom.
• Extra duties:
• Family and community committee
• Climate and culture committee, and
• Various teacher committees (i.e., holiday gala, etc.).

• Taught both special education preschool and kindergarten; each program was one-half day.

• Taught regular education kindergarten to a wide variety of students with varying needs and abilities by using a variety of teaching techniques and curricula.
• Collaborated on lesson plan ideas, themes, and units with the two other regular kindergarten teachers.

• Developed and taught the home-based portion of a brand new pre-kindergarten at-risk program servicing both Tinley Park and Orland Park, Illinois.
• Created and implemented home-based lesson plans and activities for each child and his or her parents to work on in the home.
• Provided personalized resources for each family, based on the child’s and parent’s needs.

• Full-time substitute; permanent home economics teacher on a temporary leave of absence.
• Taught foods and nutrition to seventh and eighth grade students.
• Collaborated on lesson plans with the permanent teacher; also created own lesson plans.

Early Childhood Special Education Teacher-Central School

• Taught special education preschool and kindergarten.
• Collaborated with the regular education kindergarten teachers.
• Collaborated with a wide range of team members in meeting students' needs.
• Involved parents as they were instrumental in helping to determine students' success.
• Home visits were a key part of the program.
• Created reading buddies with the regular education third graders.
• Implemented program with regular fifth graders working one on one with the special education preschool and kindergarten.
• Collaborated with regular education first grade teacher to implement activities with the special education kindergarten and regular education first grade.

• Taught ninth through twelfth grade students of all levels and abilities child development, child care, and consumer education.
• Students worked in the school’s nursery school with children ages three to five, to get a hands-on learning experience with child development and child care.
• Consumer Education was a required course for all students.
• Extra duties:
• Freshman class sponsor

• Preschool, Orchard Cooperative Nursery School, Urbana, Illinois
• Assisted and planned age appropriate activities for a class of 20 children, ages three to five, who came from an international group of 10 different cultures.
• Planned and implemented the project approach around a central theme throughout the entire program.
• Kindergarten, Leal School, Urbana, Illinois
• Assisted classroom teacher with all aspects of the class.
• Eventually assumed full responsibility of coordinating and implementing classroom units.
• Planned small group as well as large group lessons and activities.

• Conducted a variety of research for professor and doctoral students.
• Videotaped mothers and their infants/toddlers in parent-infant play groups for research projects.
• Various office duties.

• Preschool, Colonel Wolfe School, Champaign, Illinois
• Assisted classroom teacher with all aspects of the classroom operation.
• Eventually assumed full responsibility of coordinating a multi/transdisciplinary team, planning activities and individual goals in a class of three to five year olds.
• Washington Early Childhood Center, Urbana, Illinois
• Assisted classroom teacher with all aspects of the class.
• Eventually assumed full responsibility of coordinating a transdisciplinary team, planning activities and individual goals in a class of three to five year olds.

• Taught foods and nutrition as well as clothing and textiles to both seventh and eighth graders at both schools.

• Developed and taught units in nutrition and consumer education to visually impaired and orthopedically impaired children, ages 13-15, who had physical disabilities and were severely and profoundly handicapped.

• Taught arts and crafts and sports to children between the ages of 6 and 10 years old as part of an after school program.

• Taught meal preparation, independent living skills, and sewing to special needs children, teenagers, and adults.