APRIL HALTERMAN

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Auburn, IN 46706 acu6vl@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE A hard working professional seeking a new career and position that will effectively maximize my experience in being organized, efficient, dependable, flexible, and responsive to a variety of situations.

CERTIFICATION Professional Educators License K-6

Primary/Intermediate Instructional Generalist

TEACHING Fremont Elementary, Fremont, IN, July 2014-present

EXPERIENCE Kindergarten Teacher

-Developed lesson plans and instructed students in reading, math, spelling, science, social studies, and health according to Indiana Academic Standards

-Determined students’ performance using informal and formal testing and observation

- Collaborated with other kindergarten teachers to incorporate each other's ideas into everyday teaching

-Communicated with parents via phone calls, notes, or meetings to report the growth and progress of their child

-Evaluated students using DIBELS mClass screening for reading, benchmarking students 3 times a year and progress monitoring students every 4 weeks

-Administered math portion of NWEA

-Trained in Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) and First Aid

-Responsible for managing 26 students ages 4 to 7 and implementing a behavior management system

-Attended all staff professional development, school, and community based meetings

-Organized field trips and fostered parental involvement in and out of the classroom

YMCA of DeKalb County, Auburn, IN, June-July 2014, June-July 2015

School Aged Child Care Teacher

-Supervised children aged 5 to 12

-Oversaw activities, such as swimming, basketball, soccer, playground, etc.

-Prepared meals and snacks for children in entire child care

-Created academic activities and games to keep children engaged

EXCEL 21st Century Afterschool Grant, Waterloo Elementary, Sept. 2012-May-2014

Site Coordinator Assistant

-Assisted the site coordinator in everyday activities

-Managed, tutored, and mentored 20 students in first and second grade

-Provided homework assistance in math, literacy, writing, spelling, and grammar

-Created lesson plans for after homework assignments and computer lab activities

-Communicated with classroom teachers and parents daily

-Supervised physical education and recreation time

Waterloo Elementary, Waterloo, IN, August 2013-May 2014

Reading and Math Interventionist, All Grades

-Utilized student data to create lesson plans for student growth in both reading and math

-Evaluated students using Fountas and Pinnel Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI), DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (DORF), Daze assessments, Making Connections: Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies, Scholastic Do the Math, Jump Math, and mClass screening

-Administered various DIBELS tests weekly, including nonsense words, first sound fluency, and phoneme segmentation

-Administered math progress monitoring tests biweekly, entered and tracked student data, and created graphs to show student growth and challenges to communicate with teachers and other support staff

-Benchmarked students for beginning of year (BOY), middle of year (MOY), and end of year (EOY) testing

-Provided grade level assistance for one-on-one work with students or small groups

-Worked with the Response to Intervention (RtI) support team

Waterloo Elementary, Waterloo, IN, August 2012-May 2013

Resource Room Paraprofessional, All Grades

-Developed and instructed reading lessons for small groups and individual students, including high frequency words and leveled reading

-Planned and implemented Saxon math for a small group

-Assisted students in daily classroom activities like Envision math and Daily 5 for 90-minute reading block

-Provided accommodations based on students IEP for ISTEP+, IREAD-3, NWEA, and local assessments

-Communicated and coordinated meetings with teachers and other staff

-Worked with the OLWEUS team to stop bullying

EDUCATION Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana

Bachelor of Science cum laude May 2011

Major: Elementary Education

Cumulative GPA: 3.45/4.0 Major GPA: 3.835/4.0

HONORS Dean’s List, four semesters

Indiana Higher Education Scholarship (2007-2010)

Kosciusko County Community Foundation Scholarships (2007-2010)

Presidential Scholarship (2007-2010)

Valparaiso University Gift Award (2007-2010)

PROFESSIONAL Delta Delta Delta sorority, 2009-2011

ORGANIZATIONS -Secretary, fall 2009

-Participant in community and campus fundraisers

Kappa Delta Pi international educational honor society, 2009-2011

-Chapter Historian, 2010-2011

GLOBAL International Study Program, Cambridge, England, Spring Semester 2010

EXPERIENCE -Included four months of independent travel throughout Europe

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