Teaching Resume and Statements

Resume 

Tiffany Moss

513 West 300 South Apt 1, Logan, Utah 84321
Phone: 435-890-6143                                                                               

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Professional Objective

To obtain a position as an elementary school teacher that will utilize my dedication to children's educational needs and development.

Education

            Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona

            Bachelor of Science in Education, April 2019

            Utah State University, Logan, Utah                                                                                 Associate Degree, May 2016         

             Queen Creek High School, Queen Creek, Arizona                                                               

             July 2007 to May 2011

Skills

•             Technology:  Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Saxon Phonics Training

•             Completed Franklin Covey “5 Choices” in January 2016.

•             Team orientated, responsible, hard worker, organized

Teaching Experience          

Student Teacher- Summit Elementary School, Smithfield, UT.   January-April 2019

•            Designed and introduced units on: maps, figurative language, geography, and, gravity

•            Led small interactive reading groups and math groups

•            Assisted in Parent Teacher Conferences

•            Attended Professional Development, Faculty and Team Meetings, ILP Meeting

•            Implemented positive discipline

Clinical Experience

•            Organized and delivered a lesson on hermit crabs

•            Observed in various amounts of classrooms and teachers

•            Was a substitute teacher for about 3 months for both Logan School District and Cache County School Districts.

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Professional Disposition

As an educator, I believe that every student should succeed at what they are doing not only in school but at home as well. As an educator, I believe every child should have the chance to learn and to have the support that is needed to help them learn. Through the combination of both home and school, I will nurture, guide, and mentor student to become lifelong learners who will make contributions to our society. As an educator, I strive to be kind, patient, honest, and respectful to my students, peers, administrators and anyone else that I will come into contact with. 

As I look back over my self-assessment and look at my professional disposition statement I can see that the assessment supports my disposition statement. I do believe that teachers should help their students learn and use any support or tools necessary to help those students learn and be able to succeed. Being honest, patient, kind, and respectful to others is something that is something that I feel strongly about that should always be done not just in a professional environment. When thinking back to when I began my program of study there were things that need to worked on. One thing specifically that I have been working on is having patience with others, I was so impatient with things and that is something I have been really working and striving toward and I feel I have gotten much better at. Another thing that I am still working on is to not take feedback personally and to see it as a growth opportunity. I know that it is important to be willing to receive feedback, which I am not hesitant to, its learning not to take it personally is something that I am working very hard on.

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Professional Development Plan

	Goal #1: Focus on students learning	Goal #2: Classroom management.	Goal #3: To constantly improve and be a better teacher.
Rationale: Why did you choose this goal? How do you expect it to improve the outcomes of your future students?	I chose this goal to help me focus on the students and what they are learning from the lesson, not just the lesson itself. When focusing on the students learning students will be able to learn and understand what is being taught and also enjoy what is being taught.	I chose this goal to help me find a classroom management style that helps fit the needs of the classroom as well as the students. Finding a classroom management style will help the classroom flow and help students begin to get off task.	I chose this goal so that I can continue to learn and be a better teacher than I was the day before. If I am a better teacher than the day before then I  am improving my students learning by finding ways to teach them the way that they need to be taught.
End Date: By when do you expect to accomplish this goal?	I hope to complete this goal by the school year of 2019	I would like to complete this goal by Fall 2019	This doesn’t have an end date because I want to always be learning how to be a better teacher than the day before,
Action Timeline: What steps will you take to complete this goal, and by when will you take them? Example:  1/31/18: Join AACTE	The first step I will take to complete this goal is to take thought into my lessons when they are being created by asking myself what do I want the students to learn at the end of this lesson. The second step would be to get the students engaged in the lesson by asking questions. The last step is to give a quick assessment to see what the students have learned during the lesson and taking their answers and reflecting if they learned what was intended to be taught.	The first step is to research classroom management styles online using research based sources,  as well as collaborate with other teachers and their classroom management. The next step is to sit down and take what I have learned from talking to other teachers and research and create a classroom management plan.	The first step to this is to learn how to change things habits and be able to adjust to new things quickly. Another step is to reflect and take notes on how the lessons went for that day and how they could have been improved or what went well during the lesson. Another step is to take any trainings possible to help teaching.
Resources: What resources are available to assist you in accomplishing your goal?	One resource would be to practice the lesson at home or in the class after school or before school.	The resources I would use would be other teachers, the internet.	Some resources would be any trainings available through the school district or state. A note book and pen to be able to reflect on the lessons given and what went well and what didn’t go well.

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Personal Teaching Philosophy