Language Arts

Professional Summary

Skills

Work History

DETHRA MORGAN

Grand Prairie, TX 75052 214-***-**** ************@*****.*** Hardworking Educator with 24 years of distinguished Language Arts and Reading experience working with ELL and low socioeconomic students. Extensive knowledge of developmental learning and dedication to effective technology integration. Confident and detailed-oriented with dedication to organization and effective collaboration with various coworkers. Dedicated Educator experienced in creating and fostering learning environments for students to raise confidence and expand knowledge base. Dedicated to monitoring students' progress and ensuring each meets goals within pre-determined timeframe. Group and individual instruction

Peer mentoring

Differentiated Instruction

Middle School Education

Curriculum Development

Research abilities

School administration

Student Progress Reporting

Academic Goals

Student records management

Classroom management

Presentation skills

Educator 08/2018 to Current

Grand Prairie Independent School District – Grand Prairie, TX Collaborated with adults and children to provide safe and educational experience. Assumed leadership roles in classes and summer activities. Chose materials and developed lesson plans to enhance skills for individual students. Managed classroom activities, parent conferences, and lesson plans. Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.

Administered job knowledge assessments and competency testing for certification-level training.

Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time. Educator/Educator Trainer 08/2001 to 05/2018

Dallas Independent School District – Dallas, Texas Verified proper tracking in newly created databases of all students and instructors leaves, Education

Certifications

attendance, scores and overall performance.

Trained and mentored new personnel hired to fulfill various roles. Wrote contracts for company employees, working towards satisfactory agreement between executives, employees and personal goals.

Developed curricula, instructions, documentation and written tests for courses. Verified long-term staff excellence by implementing updated and continuous training initiatives such as online modules, interactive programs and language labs. Appropriately allocated resourced, budgets, inventories, training support and team building materials to increase overall productivity.

Coordinated workshops for employees to better understand the district's mission, streamlining daily activities and aligning worker and district priorities. Monitored day-to-day activities of teaching and learning, noting areas needing improvement and implementing plans for rectification.

Educator 08/1996 to 05/2001

Fort Worth Independent School District – Fort Worth, TX Collaborated with adults and children to provide safe and educational experience. Assumed leadership roles in classes and summer activities. Chose materials and developed lesson plans to enhance skills for individual students. Managed classroom activities, parent conferences, and lesson plans. Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.

Administered job knowledge assessments and competency testing for certification-level training.

Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time. Developed team communications and information for department meetings. No Degree: Education Administration

Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ

Bachelor of Arts: Education 05/1996

Texas A&M University - Commerce - Commerce, TX

High School Diploma 05/1989

Lamar High School - Arlington, TX

Self-Contained grades 1-8

Reading grades 1-8

Apple Certified Associate (ACA)

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