Teaching+Experience

//**"It is not the quality of the wand,** **but the magic of the teacher that makes reading and writing come alive in today’s classrooms."**// //**(Frank Serafini, 2006).**//


 * Each of my teaching experiences has greatly influenced the way I seek to facilitate learning within a diverse society. As an elementary teacher I sought to instill confidence in each of my young learners through a positive classroom environment with the belief that each child was brilliant in his or her own way. As a librarian I strove to ensure that all students were information literate, specifically being able to differentiate between technological resources that best met their own learning goals. As a college instructor I continue to foster teachers' passion for education by establishing a community of learners both inside and outside the classroom. I believe that each of my teaching experiences has enabled me to learn with and along side my students, growing as an educator in the 21st century.**

=__**PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR**__ = toc Nevada State College, Henderson, Nevada, January 2011 to present. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, January 2011 to December 2011.

__**University of Nevada, Las Vegas** __
Classroom Management for Elementary Education (undergraduate/graduate) EDEL 408/CIE 508 Spring 2011.

Children’s Literature in the Elementary Curriculum (undergraduate/graduate) EDRL 401/Cil 601Spring 2010; Fall 2010; Fall 2008; Spring 2007; Fall 2007; Fall 2006; Summer 2006.

Children’s Literature in the Elementary School Curriculum Early Childhood (undergraduate) EDRL 401, Distance Education/Seminar Spring 2011.

Children’s Literature in the Elementary School Curriculum Early Childhood (undergraduate) EDRL 401, Distance Education Fall 2010.

Contemporary Literature for Children and Young Adults (graduate) CIL 680 Fall 2010; Fall 2009; Fall 2007.

Literacy Instruction for Young Children (graduate) CIL 604 Fall 2011.

Materials Selection for the School Library (graduate) CIL 731 Spring 2009; Summer 2008.

__**Nevada State College** __
Content Area Literacy (undergraduate) EDRL 450, In collaboration with C. P. Squires, Elementary School, Spring 2011.

Literacy Instruction I (undergraduate) EDRL 442, In collaboration with C. P. Squires, Elementary School Fall 2011.

Student Teaching Seminar (undergraduate/graduate) EDEL 483 Fall 2011.

=**__GRADUATE ASSISTANT/PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR__** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graduate Assistant, Part-time Instructor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2006 to December 2010. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instructor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2006 to December 2010.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST__** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Library Media Specialist, Glenn Taylor Elementary, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV, August 2003 to May 2005.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__CLASSROOM TEACHER__** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Grade Teacher, Betsy Rhodes Elementary, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV, August 1999 to May 2003.