Edu-Source
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Texas, United States
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I have taught all levels of English/Language Arts to grades 9-11 in a public school setting (special ed, on-level, honors, and Advanced Placement), and am the District Instructional Coach for E/LA (K-12). I work with teachers to increase student learning by ensuring best practices by modeling instructional strategies, and sharing original curriculum. I have facilitated numerous professional learning sessions at the Region IV ESC Reading/Writing Conference, Region IV Alternative Certification classes, and at the district and school levels. Sessions include: "Writing a Delectable Expository Essay", "The Presents of Poetry", "Investigating Inferencing", "Playing Around with Plays", "A W.O.R.L.D of Learning Taking Place", "The First Days of School", as well as numerous others based on the needs of staff.
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First Day of School Getting to Know You Activity
The "Getting to Know You" First Day(s) of School Activity allows you to get to know your students in a fun way. Students select to decorate the t-shirt printed on the paper or create a slogan on their "bumper sticker", then write about how that item symbolizes them. I also have students write the definition of a symbol on their assignment. With this assignment, you get students to learn about symbols and their writing skills, and more importantly...more about them.
5th - 12th
Art, English Language Arts, For All Subjects
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Experience
I have taught all levels of English/Language Arts to grades 9-11 in a public school setting (special ed, on-level, honors, and Advanced Placement), and am the District Instructional Coach for E/LA (K-12). I work with teachers to increase student learning by ensuring best practices by modeling instructional strategies, and sharing original curriculum. I have facilitated numerous professional learning sessions at the Region IV ESC Reading/Writing Conference, Region IV Alternative Certification classes, and at the district and school levels. Sessions include: "Writing a Delectable Expository Essay", "The Presents of Poetry", "Investigating Inferencing", "Playing Around with Plays", "A W.O.R.L.D of Learning Taking Place", "The First Days of School", as well as numerous others based on the needs of staff.
Teaching style
My teaching style is very hands-on, project based learning. Typically students will begin with a warm-up (15 minutes), be involved with a literature lesson (15 minutes), then finally engage in their respective project of choice for the remainder of the class time. Even if you have state mandated skills to teach, such as I do in Texas, you will find that these projects listed will typically incorporate an average of 20 required skills.
Awards & shining teacher moments
"Author of "The Five R's of Educating Economically Disadvantaged Students: Zeniah's Story" (http://thebp.site/194793)
*Nominated for the Disneyhand Creative Teaching Award
*Received school-level awards for creative teaching
*Trained teachers in "Project Integration" that allows teachers to incorporate various subject areas into their own
*Trained new Sunday School teachers at the Greater Houston Area Educational Leadership School
*Selected as 1 of 40 Texas teachers to attend the Humanities Texas Institute at Trinity University
My own education history
*Graduated Magna Cum Laude with BA-English from the University of Houston while working full-time in a corporate environment
*Graduated with a 4.0 with Masters-Teacher Leadership from Lamar University while working full-time
*Taught Sunday School every Sunday for the past eight years to ALL grade levels
*Experience with all levels of teaching and know these lesson plans will work with ANY level
Additional biographical information
*I am owner of Edu-Source Consulting, whereby I create and facilitate professional learning sessions based upon the client's needs
*Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/pub/kathryn-craig/95/122/44b/
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