Daniel Charles Smith

1580 Baugher Avenue                                                                                                             610-675-4878

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a teaching position in Secondary Education utilizing my knowledge of differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all my students.

EDUCATION

Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA                                         2019

Major in Mathematics with a concentration in Secondary Education

Overall GPA: 3.26/4.0

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Student Teaching: Fifth Grade

Colonial Elementary, Conshohocken, PA            January 2015 – June 2015

• Observe a fully inclusive classroom while taking small groups aside to help with certain math topics.
• Create answer sheets for the students to check their own work.
• Create a lesson plan and utilize it in the classroom.
• Observe cooperating teacher during a two hour period three times per day to see how she engages her student with miscellaneous IEPs.

Freshman Early Childhood Experience: Pre-k

Elizabethtown Daycare, Elizabethtown, PA                        September 2015

• Help entertain the students while they waited to go to PM kindergarten.
• Observe how the instructor managed five students at the same time.

Freshman Secondary Experience: Eleventh and Twelfth Grade

Lower Dauphin High School, Lower Dauphin, PA                     October 2015

• Observe two AP Statistics classes and one AP Calculus Class.
• Observe the teacher explain complex topics in a way that was easily understood.

Freshman Middle level Experience: Seventh Grade

Elizabethtown Middle School, Elizabethtown, PA                  November 2015

• Observe a Pre-Algebra class that had students with IEPs
• Aided in answering questions that students may have on their homework or classwork
• Help make smooth transitions from one activity to the next.

Freshman Secondary Placement: Tenth through Twelfth Grade

Lower Dauphin high School, Lower Dauphin, PA           January 2016 – May 2016

• Encourage Senior students to stay engaged and pay attention
• Observe  techniques to maintain the attention and keep students under control

Sophomore Special Education: Seventh and Eighth Grade

Lower Dauphin middle school, Lower Dauphin, PA    Sept. 2016 - December 2016

• Observe students in a learning support classroom
• One on one assistance with students who were struggling
• Encourage students to work through the entire class period

ACTIVITIES

Elizabethtown College Wrestling, Member                          2015 – Present

Plymouth Fire Company, Volunteer Firefighter                    2010 – Present

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Poverty Simulation                                                                  Fall 2015

Escalation Workshop                                                                Fall 2016