Claudia King
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ****** ****
City: Pleasant Valley
State: NY
Zip: 12569
Country: USA
Phone: 845-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $40,000
Willing to Relocate
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
Claudia Maria King
263 Gidley Road
Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
*********@********.***
Summary of Qualifications
. Over six years of teaching English language arts at the middle and high school level (including learning disabled) and
home tutoring
. Over 25 years of local and off-Braodway acting experience as a -character actress-
. Four years experience news writing for local newspapers as a reporter and columnist
. Two years of dramatic arts instruction to teens and young adults with disabilities
Professional skills
. Highly organized; flexible, a quick study
. Effective professional speaker and presenter
. Extremely at ease with the public
. Highly creative ; passionate about acting
. Writer - -Word smith-
. Computer literate - proficient with Microsoft Windows and associated product
Professional Experience
9/2011-9/2006
Wappingers Central School District-Wappingers Junior High School
English Language Arts-Regular and Honors Curriculum - Grade 8 -Tenured
Responsible for teaching state and national core standards - September, 2010.
Wappingers Central School District-Wappingers Junior High School
Tenure Track -Grade 8 English Language AIS - Course designed for students classified as -at risk.-
Developed the course curriculum. 2007-2010
Tenured received in September, 2010.
Wappingers Central School District-Wappingers Junior High School / Grades 7 & 8 - Leave replacement teacher for the English Language Arts Department - September, 2006-2007
12/1998-5/1999
Hyde Park Central Schools -Roosevelt High School/ Grades 10th & 11th (Regents and Remedial) (Co-teaching with Reading Instructor)
9/1988-6/99
Newburgh Enlarged School District-North Junior High/Grades 8th and 9th
(Regents and Remedial) -Leave replacement
Education and Professional Organizations
. M.S. in Reading/Literacy
[Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY] GPA: 3.9 -August, 2007
. Professional Certification-Secondary/English, Grades 7-12 /GPA: 3.0- February, 2009
. B.A. in English Literature and Journalism, [S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz] May, 1984
o Kappa Delta Pi -Honor Society of Education (Spring Induction 2006)
o International Reading Association (2005)
o NCTE-National Council of Teachers of English (2005)
Additional Professional Experience
. Corporate training and development of executive assistants -Manpower/IBM Project
. Executive assistant and event organizer - Communications conference/IBM
. Workshop presenter for the October, 2011 NYSEC (New York State Council of English Teachers) Conference-Albany, York
. Curriculum development for -at risk- students grades 7 - 8
. Three to four years of sales experience -Transwestern Yellow Pages &Publishing