Valerie Wright
WATERBURY,CT
Summary
Engaging Kindergarten committed to preparing young students for elementary learning. Models diverse academic knowledge along with nurturing and enthusiastic presence that energizes students. Forms partnerships with parents and other education professionals to deliver learning and emotional support each child needs.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Kindergarten Teacher
City Of Waterbury
08.1998 - Current
- Built positive relationships with students and families for safe, trusted learning support.
- Exercised good classroom management focused on positive behavior support by clearly articulating fair and consistent expectations along with appropriate natural consequences.
- Delivered lesson plans, implemented school curriculum and used data to create, monitor, and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
- Monitored and evaluated student progress through regular assessments and observations.
- Promoted learning through play with engaging activities, games and lessons.
- Recognized children's physical, emotional and social needs for personalized support.
- Collaborated with other faculty and staff to promote rigorous learning opportunities, general well-being of school and collective interest of staff and student body.
- Identified characteristics, needs, abilities, and problems of each child through personal interaction and progress reports to optimize approaches.
- Reported to parents and administration about student progress.
After School Teacher
City Of Waterbury
02.2023 - 06.2023
- Prepared after-school enrichment activities for children to encourage student participation.
- Tutored and assisted children in small groups of individuals to help master assignments and reinforce learning concepts.
- Redirected inappropriate student behavior and implemented program discipline system to guide proper student behavior.
- Monitored student attendance by collecting attendance rosters and overseeing attendance database.
- Provided individual and group teaching to 16 students to motivate and instill enthusiasm for learning.
- Shifted between formal and informal methods of teaching to keep students engaged.
Education
Master of Science - Education
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CTSkills
- Social Skills
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Student Counseling
- Technology Integration
- Early Reading
- Differentiated Instruction
- Emotional Support
- Behavior Modeling
- Lesson Planning
- Positive Reinforcement Strategies
- Elementary Education
Timeline
After School Teacher
City Of Waterbury
02.2023 - 06.2023
Kindergarten Teacher
City Of Waterbury
08.1998 - Current
Master of Science - Education
University of Bridgeport
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