Staff Assistant
Resume:
APRIL HALTERMAN
Auburn, IN 46706 **********@*******.***
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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