Engineering Tutoring Near Dover, Massachusetts

Experience Summary

I graduated from Bethel University in December 2006 with a BA in Elementary Education K-8 with a Middle School specialty in Spanish. I graduated magna cum laude (gpa of 3.8). In college, I completed a research paper written in Spanish about language acquisition in children. I also completed individual courses of both Kindergarten and Middle School education, two classes rarely offered at other universities. Since 2002, I have completed approximately 6 practicums at various intercity and suburban schools. I also completed 14 weeks of student teaching in fourth grade and first grade classrooms. I recently completed my first year teaching Kindergarten at Adams Spanish Immersion Magnet in Saint Paul.

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Teaching Style

My teaching style incorporates the Responsive Classroom model, in which proactive rather than reactive teaching is expressed. Students and teacher build a classroom community based on trust, respect and acceptance. Children are involved in creating classroom rules and routines. In the classroom, I continually accommodate for diverse learners, dividing the students by their needs and working with them in small literacy and math groups. However, the students also work together in mixed-ability groups. I am sensitive when planning to institute Gardner's multiple intelligences. Teaching in themes is important to me when teaching younger students especially. For this reason, I believe in incorporating many subject areas, such as literacy, math and science. Finally, I have been trained in both reading and writing workshop. While training, I began to incorporate these strategies in the classroom. It was especially challenging transferring these strategies into Spanish, as the entire day was taught in Spanish. As a teacher, I am professional but also try my best to connect with each student individually. Each student's behaviors are the result of a need that hasn't been met. I strive to discover this need and fill it rather than react negatively toward it. Overall, each student is a unique learner and I embrace these differences and strive to meet each of them.

Subjects

• Earth Science
• Life Science
• Grammar
• Reading
• Spelling
• Writing
• Spanish
• Homework Help
• Study Skills
• Drawing
• Computer
• Microsoft Office
• Special Education
• Musical
• Elementary
• Elementary Math
• Elementary Phonics
• Elementary Science
• Elementary Social Studies