Susan Egan

Highly motivated, enthusiastic English Teacher with six years experience. Specialty areas include ESL with inclusive certification, writing for standardized testing, and reading comprehension strategies for the purpose of providing accommodations and modifications for students who have underperformed both in the classroom and on standardized testing.

Progressivism based on differentiated instruction inclusive strategies for accommodation of both ESL and Special Needs Students. Learning begins through the implementation of constructive lessons for the inclusion of all learning styles through hands-on activities and cooperative learning groups.

As a Masters program student with the University of Phoenix I received a 3.9 grade point average overall.

I have recently received a Masters of Arts in Secondary Education with an emphasis and certification in English for grades 4-12. Student teaching involved teaching ELL students both reading comprehension skills as well as writing for the purpose of test preparation for exit level TAKS standardized tests.

After discovering my love for teaching from years of teaching my own children all core subjects through integrated learning, I began to substitute teach all grade levels. As I observed both as a substitute teacher and as a student teacher I noticed that many students were struggling with both reading and writing. Through focused lesson plans that include modifications for special needs children I have been able to teach even the most disadvantaged students the basics of reading comprehension and writing through hands on lessons for all grade levels. Just as swimmers must learn one part of a stroke at a time before mastering the coordination required to swim and not sink, so must English students learn one writing and reading skill at a time. My approach to teaching writing is to teach both word and sentence structure while using key words from literature to compose paragraphs. This enables my students to focus on sentence structure before taking on the task of paragraph composition in its entirety. For reading I have used the Spalding method within the lower grade levels, which enables my students to read any word through this well-established phonics method. Within the secondary grade levels I have emphasized strategies that enable students to identify the meaning of words through both context clues and decoding. I have developed numerous graphic organizers which are also set up in a step by step method for learning various strategies for successful reading comprehension.