Third grade teacher

Kristen Valenty

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Sheffield Lake, OH 44054 *********************@*****.*** 440-***-****

Teacher, possessing a strong educational background, excellent interpersonal skills with student’s staff and parents, twenty years of teaching and facilitating experience, and known for creating a positive learning environment for all types of learners, seeks a full-time teaching position.

Work Experience

4-5th grade teacher

Saint Mary’s of the Immaculate Conception School-Avon, Ohio- STEM Designated School

August 2019-present

Planned and implemented Science Lessons for for grades 4-5, including hands on labs and STEM challenges

Planned and facilitated a lip balm Entrepreneurial/ STEM experience for 5th grade where students researched and created a business plan as well as made and sold lip balm.

Planned and facilitated 4th graders engineering experience where they followed the engineering process to define a problem found in every day life and created a project that solved the problem.

Taught and practiced the process of Socratic Seminars to 4-5th grade encouraging critical thinking and communication skills

Planned and implemented data driven, individualized reading instruction specializing in navigating informational text and text interaction to increase comprehension.

Created engaging and fun Social Studies lessons for 4-5th grade. Incorporated content area reading instruction into social studies lessons.

Practiced problem based learning

Drama Club facilitator

6th-8th grade Math and Social Studies Teacher, 6th grade homeroom Reading and religion

St. Anthony of Padua School - Lorain, OH

August 2000 -2019

Planned and implemented data driven, individualized reading instruction specializing in navigating informational text and text interaction to increase comprehension.

Made Social studies fun and connected to real life through engaging lessons that helped all learning styles connect with the content

Taught and practiced the process of Socratic Seminars to 6-8th encouraging critical thinking and communication skills

Practiced problem based learning

Did monthly STEM challenges related to the curriculum being covered.

Reading tutor

Private reading tutor for students in grades 3-8

August 2004- present

Using reading surveys and diagnostic tests created and implemented personalized reading instruction

Lead Teacher Special Needs Camp

Camp IDEAS - Lorain, OH June 2018 to July 2019

Camp IDEAS is a summer camp for students with special needs. As lead teacher I created daily lessons in Reading, Math and Social Skills. The lessons needed to be differentiated to meet the needs of each student. Many of my students had anger and impulse control problems. Teaching Social Skills and consistent, positive classroom management as well as knowing your students were the keys to success.

Special Education tutor

Saint Anthony of Padua School - Lorain, OH August 2002 to 2004

Worked daily one on one with a child with Autism. Assisted with academic skills and social development

Art teacher

Saint Anthony of Padua School - Lorain, OH August 1996-2000

Created and implemented Art lessons for grades K-8.

K-1: Students made Art Projects related to basics of Colors, numbers, or other content being covered by Homeroom teacher

2-4: Students learned the basics of perspective, color, hue, symmetry/asymmetry, shading, balance and design

5-8: Learned about artistic masters and imitated their content and style

Education

Walsh University

Master’s Level Reading Endorsement

2018

Bachelor of Science in Education

Ashland University 1997

Magna Cum Laude

Links

http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-kidd-valenty-45b2a211/

Certifications/Licenses

OH K-8 5 year

July 2018 to July 2023

Able to teach any subject K-8 and Reading Endorsement K-12

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