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Houston, Texas, United States
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I began teaching ESL as a volunteer. I taught English overseas twice, for a total or 3 years. I've taught Pre-K through 10th grade as well as adults, either in the U.S. or overseas. The subjects I've taught are as follows: Pre-K-6 & grades 9 & 10 ESL, elementary & secondary reading & writing, world cultures and geography, Texas history, grades K-5 Japanese, reading intervention, and sociology and ESL at the university level. In addition, I have tutored students in Japanese and French. I love teaching and am a great idea person.
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New Best Seller: Editable Check for Understanding & Exit Ticket, Updated 3/2022
Improve your evaluation score with this: New, editable Check for Understanding and Exit Ticket, updated March of 2022. This is great for teachers to quickly and easily check for understanding at the end of a lesson. It's also an excellent resource for walk throughs and observations for H-TESS, T-TESS, or whichever teacher performance evaluation system used in your district. Easily adapted to any content-area. I've sold several other versions of this, but this time I'm offering an editable one. T
2nd - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
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LA.6.5.F
, LA.3.6.F
, LA.8.5.F
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PBIS -- Positive Behavior Management System Cards (New & Editable)
New & Editable! This is a tool to use for keeping a record of positive behavior choices to motivate students to make good behavior choices or to continue to make positive behavior choices. These days, schools, districts, and administrators are choosing positive behavior management systems, so it fits well into this kind of behavior management system. Using these cards is also a way to keep track of good behavior choices for a reward system. After a certain number of boxes are initialed for a s
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Character Education, For All Subjects
Hallway Behavior Checklist
This is a quick checklist for teaching correct hallway behavior. It can even be used by students to self-monitor: "Did I walk down the hall with my hands to myself"? Having students take responsibility for their own behavior takes education to a higher level, and is something administrators look for and teacher evaluation systems include these days.
PreK - 5th
Character Education, For All Subjects
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Experience
I began teaching ESL as a volunteer. I taught English overseas twice, for a total or 3 years. I've taught Pre-K through 10th grade as well as adults, either in the U.S. or overseas. The subjects I've taught are as follows: Pre-K-6 & grades 9 & 10 ESL, elementary & secondary reading & writing, world cultures and geography, Texas history, grades K-5 Japanese, reading intervention, and sociology and ESL at the university level. In addition, I have tutored students in Japanese and French. I love teaching and am a great idea person.
Teaching style
I love using cooperative learning work stations as much as possible. I often use them for targeted-intervention in response to data.
Awards & shining teacher moments
As a high school student, I earned 1st place in the regional PTSA writing competition 2 years in a row. Also in high school, I won the Bronze medal in the Academic Decathlon Fine Arts category at the state level. I was selected to participate in the Rotary Club Student Exchange Program to Germany.
2 years in a row I earned awards of excellence in French while at the University of Texas in Austin. I also won Honorable Mention in the Japanese Speech Contest while at university. In addition, I even had one of my poems published in the Sam Houston Review when I was in graduate school.
My own education history
Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language from Grand Canyon University
Graduate Studies in Sociology at Sam Houston State Universiy
Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology with a minor in French from the University of Texas at Austin
Additional biographical information
I'm a highly creative person, raised by an artist and art professor mother who comes from a family of artists.
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