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Fifth Grade Lead Teacher 
Matilda Dunston Elementary

2020 - 2022

Work
Experience

  • Align instruction to South Carolina College and Career Ready Standards, modifying instruction based on students’ needs

  • Support a culturally diverse population, including English Language Learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities

  • Adhere to students’ Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), providing individual learning accommodations

  • Implement i-Ready diagnostic assessments, analyzing student data to inform instruction and flexible groupings

  • Examine formative/summative assessments, MAP data, and informal assessments to target skills in need of support

  • Create interactive Nearpod lessons for engaging and motivating digitally-based learning

  • Integrate Google Workspace, Commonlit, Readworks, Newsela, Blooket, and Kami technology into instruction

  • Transition to periods of remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic using Zoom, Google Meet, Flipgrid, and Prezi

  • Utilize Promethean Board and activInspire software for interactive and engaging daily lessons

  • Provide Social Emotional Learning (SEL) opportunities using the Second Step SEL curricular model

  • Involved in the life of the school, serving as Fifth Grade Chair and member of Parent/Community Sessions/Events Committee

2017 - 2020

Sixth Grade ELA & History Teacher |
Gompers Preparatory Academy

  • Created curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards and History Social Science Content Standards

  • Modified instruction to meet IEP goals of students with learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, and emotional disturbance

  • Infused content-area literacy into history instruction for students to view social studies as a series of human events

  • Scaffolded Achieve3000 literacy program with prompts, simplified directions, and supplemental teaching aids

  • Utilized the California English Language Development Standards and multiple strategies to support ESOL students

  • Moderated team meetings, leading planning sessions focused on cohesive and standards-aligned instruction

  • Effectively communicated with parents via ClassDojo, fostering the home-to-school connection through technology

  • Trained in Achieve3000 for differentiated, nonfiction online learning and attended Disney Institute professional development

2014 - 2017

First Grade Teacher
Yeshiva Sha'arei Zion

  • Employed the Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) approach in the Math in Focus (Singapore Math) curriculum

  • Utilized SMART Board and Think Central technology to foster learning using virtual manipulatives, including base ten blocks

  • Created and maintained digital class website for effective communication, sharing class content and news  

  • Incorporated authentic texts in Journeys reading program for developing mastery of early literacy skills

  • Provided intensive intervention for at-risk students on the cusp of failure using Response to Intervention (RTI)

  • Integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) into thematic balanced literacy units

  • Provided sound classroom management using Responsive Classroom ideology

Education

2015 - 2017

Hofstra University |
Master’s Degree

Master of Arts in Elementary Education: STEM      

GPA: 3.91                                                               

2010 - 2014

SUNY New Paltz |
Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood & Childhood Education                                                Specialization: History | Honors Graduate 

Skills
& Expertise

  • Proficient in Google Workspace (Classroom, Slides, Docs, and Forms), Articulate Storyline 360, Microsoft PowerPoint.

  • Skilled in Wiggins and McTighe’s (Understanding by Design) Backward Design and Essential Questions for curriculum writing

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