Tiffany Woodward

• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators, and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
• Utilized data to plan instruction
• Integrated technology and multimedia tools into lessons to enhance student learning.
• Planned small group socratic seminars to help students collaboratively discuss literature and justify their answers with evidence from the text
• Planned whole group socratic seminars to allow students use content language to analyze literature by asking and answering questions while justifying their answers.
• Created lessons that enhanced the student's writing for extended constructed responses
• Taught age-appropriate spelling techniques, grammar rules and language skills.
• Improved student comprehension by incorporating diverse teaching methods and adapting to individual learning styles.
• Developed strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues to foster a supportive learning environment.
• Completed in-service and additional training to maintain professional growth.

• Fostered student learning through utilizing fishbowl/socratic seminars to analyze literature
• Prepared quizzes, tests and examinations to gauge how well students were learning.
• Shifted between formal and informal methods of teaching to keep students engaged.
• Participated in parent teacher conference to discuss developments of students and increase support.
• Created student led notebooks so that students could keep track of their learning and create goals.
• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, to align curriculum vertically
• Participated in department meetings to provide input to colleagues about student achievement and improvement.
• Team Leader for the past three years

• Utilized curriculum based assessments to monitor progress of students and to reteach
• Designed and implemented highly effective curriculum, textbook, and classroom technology new to the district
• Utilized collaborative learning strategies (Read, Talk, Write) and emphasized reading and writing in conjunction (Empowering Writers, Laying the Foundation, and Literacy Analysis, Pre-AP Rice University Training) with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
• Implemented student directed classroom management procedures that increased percentages of turned in assignments and participation
• Led teacher parent goal setting conferences
• Organized and implemented an on-line summer reading program
• Language Arts Curriculum writer and sixth grade language arts team leader
• Co-taught effective lessons while differentiating instruction to ensure student success
• Incorporated technology skills such as: Google Classroom, Padlet, Voki (Avatar), Flip Grid, Story Board, Popplet, Choice Boards
• Coached UIL spelling for 18 years

I worked as a fifth grade teacher at Harlem Elementary in Goose Creek ISD for three years. For the first two years, I taught language arts and during my last year, I was self contained.