Experience

Great Expectations Child Care & Early Learning Center

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pre-K Counts Teacher

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  Taught 20 students ages 3-4 with a teaching assistant. ❖ Taught whole group, circle time, STEM and facilitated daily formative assessments related to child development such as social, motor and language skills. ❖ Planned, wrote and taught lessons based on weekly themes and connected all lessons to the Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood. ❖ Completed Kindergarten entrance exams, Ages and Stages exams and Social Emotional exams for all students’ multiple times throughout the year. ❖ Updated parents on their child’s progress with daily recordkeeping and documentation of behavior issues ❖ Advocated for students with special needs and helped them receive services, updated their IEP’s and attended annual meetings. ❖ Created dramatic play experiences, sensory tables, highlighted centers and family/home projects each month that pertain to that month’s significant holidays/highlights. ❖ Helped students interact and grow socially through activities that promote group engagement and fairness. ❖ Assembled portfolios based on the Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood that encapsulated their work towards mastering the standards detailed in the 8 Key Learning Domains. Show less



White Oak Elementary

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• College Internship

  • Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Taught in a self-contained ABA communication learning support classroom with children on the Autism Spectrum. ❖ Ran students’ ITT instructional programs, in addition to whole-group reading instruction. ❖ Planned, made and implemented new targets for each student’s individualized intensive teaching. ❖ Made flipcharts for weekly stories. Each slide was color coded for each student to come up and interact with to answer a question using elements from the book that aligned with their intensive teaching targets. ❖ Wrote IEP goals and attended meetings for all students. ❖ Managed behaviors and learned techniques to handle behavioral outbursts and redirection. ❖ Created personalized sensory bins for each student to use during tactical and sensory learning time Show less



Charlesmont Elementary School

• United States
• Hospitality

• College Internship

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

  Taught in a first-grade classroom of 25 students with varying levels of proficiency in reading and phonics. ❖ Executed lesson plans for phonics, reading, math, social studies and science, based on the Maryland Common Core State Standards for first grade. Used Flipcharts for lessons and used a variety of whole group, small group, partner work, independent work and center rotation-based teaching techniques. ❖ Developed a Positive Behavior Support Plan for a student struggling with self-regulation and off-task behaviors. ❖ Collected data and produced evidence of student learning by implementing effective teaching practices. ❖ Initiated a successful after-school math club for students in grades 1-5, with fellow interns, to provide students with additional math supports by making and implementing fun math games. Show less