Sarah Shively
Prospect ,KY
Summary
Upbeat teacher devoted to promoting student learning and enhancing individual potential. Skillful in directing classroom environments and enhancing student behavior through positive and forward-thinking approaches. Caring relationship-builder with an analytical mindset and good decision-making skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Kindergarten Teacher
Bullitt County Public Schools
08.2022 - Current
- Member of SBDM Council 2023-2024 School Year.
- Building mentor to new staff.
- Archery Team Coach 2022-2024
- Exercised good classroom management focused on positive behavior support by clearly articulating fair and consistent expectations along with appropriate natural consequences.
- Enhanced classroom management by establishing clear expectations, rules, and routines.
- Developed strong relationships with families to address any concerns or issues impacting student success.
- Fostered social-emotional growth in students through daily morning meetings, conflict resolution strategies, and character education lessons.
- Built positive relationships with students and families for safe, trusted learning support.
- Delivered lesson plans, implemented school curriculum and used data to create, monitor, and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
- Provided fun and engaging learning experiences through games, hands on activities, and experiments. Sought to provide activities that promoted higher level of thinking and critical thinking skills.
- Collaborated in planning, organizing and implementing instructional programs to facilitate academic, intellectual and social development.
- Delivered structured lessons on readiness skills by emphasizing phonics, language skills, literature, and handwriting.
- Encouraged and prepared students to become independent readers through systematic, multi-sensory instruction in phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
- Developed structured lessons in math to build a strong foundation in number sense, addition and subtraction, patterns, and shapes through the use of manipulatives, math talks, and small groups
- Regularly assess student progress using various assessment methods, adjusting instructional strategies as needed based on data analysis.
- Addressed individual student needs through differentiation of instruction, ensuring all students reached their full potential.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current with educational trends and improve pedagogical skills.
- Organized and led after-school tutoring sessions for struggling students, resulting in significant improvement in their academic performance.
First Grade and Kindergarten Teacher
Trimble County Public Schools
08.2020 - 05.2022
- Helped to create a school-wide penny war to raise money for Kentucky tornado victims.
- Recognized by Trimble County Superintendent for perfect attendance in 2021.
- Member of School Improvement Committee.
- Taught using hybrid virtual and in-person teaching model.
- Provided learning opportunities through visual, verbal, auditory, and kinesthetic activities.
- Incorporated well-rounded, standard-based lessons in reading, writing, phonics, math, social studies, science, and social-emotional learning.
- Provided instruction during Guided Reading Groups to ensure that my students were making gains in reading, writing, and phonemic awareness.
- Assessed students through formative and summative assessments.
- Provided fun and engaging learning experiences through games, hands-on activities, STEM, and experiments. Sought to provide activities that promoted higher level of thinking and critical thinking skills.
- Created a classroom culture of kindness with high expectations of student behavior, learning, and responsibilities.
- Excellent classroom management skills.
- Highly structured, organized, and routine-driven classroom.
- Planned lessons according to district standards to cover all requirements and differentiated to include all student learning needs.
- Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in the educational process.
- Used Google Classroom as main teaching platform for virtual learning.
- Created slides and worksheets for virtual learning while teaching asynchronously in-person students.
Registered Nurse Pre-op/PACU/Sedation
Norton Children's Medical Center
03.2015 - 07.2020
- Care of pediatric patients post-anesthesia, assess airway, pain, wound care and overall needs of patients
- Provide sedation medication for MRI and CT scans. Monitor patient while sedated in MRI and CT.
- Pre-Op patients for surgery entailing assessment, computer database, and IV start and anesthesia premeds.
- Provide patient education upon discharge.
- Computer charting with EPIC.
Education
Master of Arts - Elementary School Teaching
University of The Cumberlands
Williamsburg, KY12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY06.2003
Bachelor of Arts - History
Centre College
Danville, KY06.2001
Skills
- Classroom Management
- Differentiated Instruction
- Classroom Organization
- Technology Integration
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Reading instruction
Certification
LETRS Certification( Complete May 2024)
CPR
Ky Teaching Certificate
Licensed Registered Nurse
References
- Tammy Hornak- Kindergarten Teacher Roby Elementary (502) 294-9493
- Melissa Allen- Kindergarten Instructional Assistant Roby Elementary (502) 599-4878
- Whitney Voyles- Instructional Coach Roby Elementary (502)-295-6064
Timeline
Kindergarten Teacher
Bullitt County Public Schools
08.2022 - Current
First Grade and Kindergarten Teacher
Trimble County Public Schools
08.2020 - 05.2022
Registered Nurse Pre-op/PACU/Sedation
Norton Children's Medical Center
03.2015 - 07.2020
Master of Arts - Elementary School Teaching
University of The Cumberlands
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Louisville
Bachelor of Arts - History
Centre College
LETRS Certification( Complete May 2024)
CPR
Ky Teaching Certificate
Licensed Registered Nurse
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