Dedicated
to creating stimulating and enriching learning environments.
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RESUME
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| CURRENT
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| At-Risk Instructor at Dirksen Primary School, a K-3 school in Pekin, Illinois |
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| JOB
GOAL |
| Provide
leadership to support student, teacher, school,
and district continuous improvement. |
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| PERFORMANCE
RESPONSIBILITIES |
| Support
classroom improvement/teaching by: |
My
"Eggs"-amination Of An Egg
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- Collaborating
with teachers to promote engaged learning and differentiated instruction
- Allocating time
within the work day for personal and co-planning.
- Promoting mentoring
opportunities among staff
- Assisting in
the allocation of curriculum resources
- Assisting teachers
in the use of tools and strategies to measure
student achievement
- Assisting teachers
in attaining personal professional goals
- Facilitating
the integration of technology to improve teaching
and learning
- Engaging in personal
development and mentoring with other learning
center teachers
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| Support
student improvement/learning in collaboration with
teachers by: |
- Assisting students
in engaged learning activities
- Assisting students
meet curriculum standards (SAI)
- Assisting students
in collecting data to document progress in meeting
curriculum standards
- Assisting students
in obtaining curricular resources
- Facilitating
student mentoring
- Assisting students
with technology skills
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| Support
school/district improvements by: |
- Contributing
to school and district continuous improvement
efforts
- Serving as a
member of the School Instructional Leadership
Team
- Facilitating Dirksen's SDSA (Standardize, Do, Study, Act) team
- Serving as member of the district Data Management Committee
- Facilitating Dirksen's At Risk Committee (ARC)
- Supervising Learning
Center personnel
- Facilitating
Learning Center schedule
- Managing and
maintaining Learning Center resources (hardware,
software, print, non-print)
- Preparing and
monitoring the Learning Center budget
- Serving as technical
liaison between the school and the Tech Center
- Gathering feedback
to evaluate the effectiveness of the Learning
Center program and services
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| PREVIOUS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
- Pekin Area
Schools: Substitute teacher
- Rankin District
#98:
Title I Reading, self contained 7th Grade language
arts, science, and art, 4th grade
- Bradley University:
B.U.I.G.T.Y. (Bradley University Institue of
Gifted and Talented Youth), taught for two summers, adult continuing education (taught PowerPoint)
- Pekin Public
Schools District #108:
Teacher of the gifted (Project
Challenge), Learning Center teacher, school webmaster
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| ACCOMPLISHMENTS |
| Gifted: |
- Talent Search,
test proctor and test administrator, 1989-1993
- Gifted Consultant,
Mid-Illini ESC #12, 1989-1991
- Legislative District
Coordinator, Illinois Council for Gifted, 1990-1991
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| Odyssey
of the Mind |
- Sponsor, 1990-1994
- Judge at State
Competition, 1993-1995
- Board of Directors,
Illinois Central/West Region, 1993-1995
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| Technology |
- E.I.S. (Education
Instruction Staff) for IBM, 1991-1992
- Taught Tech Academy
Classes for Pekin Public School District #108
- Taught Community
Technology Classes
- Building Webmaster
- Taught at Junior
Webmaster Camp
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| PRESENTER |
- Accent on Better
Curriculum Gifted Conference, 1989
- Role of Technology
in Education Conference, 1990
- Mathematics and
Science Academy, Akademgorodok, USSR, 1991
- Selected to demonstrate
an interdisciplinary 5th grade lesson to students
and Soviet teachers at an experimental school
in Moscow, Russia, 1991
- Gifted Conference,
Budapest, Hungary, 1991
- Illinois School
Board Association (demonstrated LinkWay with
students), 1992
- Technology Seminar,
Pekin District #108, 1992
- Central Illini
Gifted Talented Conference, 1992
- Technology Extravaganza,
Pekin District #108 (spring and fall), 1993
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| HONORS |
- Gifted Fellowship
Grant through the Illinois State Board of Education:
1988, 1989, and 1990
- Academic Honors,
Bradley University
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| EDUCATION: CERTIFICATES & ENDORSEMENTS |
- 1972 Western
Illinois University, B.S. Psychology, (6-12
certification)
- 1975 Illinois
State University, Reading Methods, (K-6 certification)
- 1986 Bradley
University, Graduate Course - Gifted Education,
Project Excel, (Gifted certification)
- 1987 University
of Connecticut, Graduate Course - Gifted Education,
Confratute
- 1988 Illinois
State University, Graduate Course - Gifted Education
- 1991 Bradley
University, M.A. Educational Administration,
(Type 75 certification)
- 2003 University
of Illinois, M.A. Education - Curriculum, Technology,
and Education Reform
(Technology Endorsement)
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| REFERENCES |
| Available
on request. |
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This
page was last updated on
Thursday, April 19, 2007
by kschlappi@pekin.net
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