Resume’

Education

×       B.S. in geology from Western

×       Spent a year working in the geothermal industry in northern California, Nevada and Hawaii (Kilauea)

×       Teaching credentials from U.W.

×       This is my 18^th year teaching (1^st, 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th )

 

 

Family

×       Daughter Cassady, 12, middle-schooler

×       Son Dylan, third grader, 8 1/2,

 

 

Writing

Writing Workshop

ü      Forms of Writing

ü      Expository Writing (Recount, ,Procedure, Explanation, Report),

ü      Narratives

ü      Poems, Letters

ü      Journals – students choose topics of personal significance, write 10 minutes per day.

Writing Process

ü      Prewrite-Draft-Revise-Edit-Publish

Six Traits

ü      Voice, Conventions, Sentence Fluency, Organization, Ideas and Content, Organization

 

Reading

Reading Series: Houghton Mifflin

ü      Solid skills-building program

ü      Balance of fiction and non-fiction

ü      Incorporates spelling and writing

 

Class Novels

ü      Sarah. Plain and Tall

ü      Shiloh

ü      Cricket In Times Square

ü      Others

Literature Circles (Book Groups)

ü      Small groups of four students read and study a novel together

Skills

ü      Phonics and decoding

ü      Predicting and inferring

ü      Vocabulary

ü      Comprehension activities

ü      Story elements

ü      Character, setting, plot, etc

Read Alouds

ü       Abel’s Island, many other good ones…some top secret

Independent Reading

ü      Students make choices about what to read with an expectation of accountability, i.e. one independent chapter book per month with book review, reading log, Newbery Club, Accelerated Reader. 15-20 minutes per day.

Math

Investigations

ü      Open-ended problem solving

ü      Concept-based

ü      Very little homework

 

Port Angeles School District web site

×       Number Sense

×       Measurement

×       Geometry

×       Algebraic Sense

×       Probability and Statistics

×       Logic

×       Strategies
(strategy description)

 

Scott Foresman/ Addison Wesley Textbook

ü      Traditional math program

ü      Very solid in the basics

ü      Linear

ü      Problem solving, higher-level thinking skills built into the program

 

Data Collection and Graphing

Facts Review

Place Value and Time

Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Money

Multiplication and Division Concepts and Facts

Multiplication and Division – 1- and 2-digit Factors

Geometry

Fractions

Measurement (Customary and Metric)

Probability

 

Science

ü      Weather

ü      Wetlands

ü      Salmon

ü      Water Cycle

ü      Life Cycles

Social Studies

×       Washington State

×       Geography

×       History

×       Northwest Coast native Americans

Technology

ü      Projects

Hardware

×       Compaq PCs

×       Digital cameras

×       Scanner

×       Laser printers

×       Software

×       Word, Powerpoint, FrontPage, Excel

 

 

Ultimate

ü      Games at lunch recess

 

Homework

ü      Homework goes home Monday

ü      Due the following Monday

ü      Students should be reading at home for 100 minutes per week

ü      Practice math facts 10 minutes each night

Communication

ü      Newsletter every other Friday

ü      Published student writing

ü      Web site

ü      E-mail

 

Discipline

Here’s my discipline policy in order of severity:

ü      First, an expectation that students follow school and classroom rules

ü      Cold, hard teacher’s glare

ü      Gentle reminder

ü      Time-out

ü      Loss of recess

ü      Call to parent

ü      Trip to principal

ü      Conference with parents and student

Parent Helpers

×       Field trip helpers

×       Book orders

×       Math helpers – Rocket Math

×       Art help

×       Writing Workshop

×       Busy work