Experience

August 1998 - Present	Full-time Classroom Teacher Coronation Park School, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Assignments:	August 2000 - present August 1999 - June 2000 August 1998 - June 1999	Grade 2 & 3 Teacher (ages 6-10) Grade 5 & 6 Teacher (ages 9-13) Grade 3 & 4 Teacher (ages 7-11)

	º Manage a positive and cohesive classroom community based on respect for self, peers, teachers, and the school. º Teach well planned thematic units using a variety of strategies including experimental learning, cooperative learning, resource based learning centres, literacy groups, guided reading, and literature circles. º Adapt curriculum, instruction, and environment to meet the needs of students with wide-ranging abilities in a multi-grade classroom. º Facilitate writer's workshop with emphasis on ideas, organization, word choice, sentence structure, writer's voice, and conventions. º Design intricate units of study in history involving drama, field trips, internet research, related literature studies, student video production, and resource based learning centres. º Involve students in detailed science and outdoor education studies based on inquiry, hypothesis, exploration, and discovery. º Utilize a wide range of assessment tools including rubrics, scales, checklists, daily anecdotal records, tests, portfolios, student self-assessment, and peer review. º Communicate frequently with parents through daily agendas, phone calls, Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences and "Celebration of Learning" Student-Led Conferences. º Act as First Steps Focus Teacher. This position involves providing writing resources and support to staff members , presenting writing inservices to teachers, and assisting consultants with strategic planning for the implementation of First Steps Writing throughout the school division. º Act as a supervising teacher for University of Regina Arts Education students. º Coach of the girls volleyball team. º Implemented a gymnastics club for students ages 6-9.