Elementary Teaching Experience

Elementary Teaching Roles

5th grade Lead Teacher, Subjects: ELA and SS

• ELA - English and Language Arts
  • taught summarization skills
  • taught transitions, topic sentences, thesis, hooks, details
  • taught critical thinking of stories and videos
• SS - Social Studies
  • used Harcourt’s 5th grade level Social Studies textbook
  • covered European history of age of exploration to US history to the Civil War
  • covered minimal history of the Americas
  • taught a project on comparing the dated textbook to the film “Uncharted” and the PBS Secrets of the Dead episode “Magellan’s Crossing”