Michelle Penner

• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators, and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
• Managed classroom behavior effectively by establishing clear expectations, modeling appropriate conduct, and consistently enforcing established rules and consequences.
• Kept students on-task with proactive behavior modification and positive reinforcement strategies.

Worked with students with dyslexia and developmental language disabilities.

Wrote monthly reports to outline student progress and set goals for the upcoming month,

Set up a registered business in my home which included sending monthly invoices to clients, sending receipts and keeping track of expenses.

I taught grades 2 to 6, with most of my time spend teaching the grade 4 to 5 level. During this time I had the opportunity to integrate deaf and hard of hearing students, ELL students as well as students with moderate to severe learning disabilities. I retired from classroom teaching in 2019 to set up my own tutoring business.

I worked for three summers for Cultural Homestay and then Canadian Homestay programs. In the first program, teachers were required to find homes for 30 to 40 students, teach language lessons in the mornings, and arrange and supervise field trips. I enjoyed working with two groups of teen girls from Japan, and then a group of teen boys from Korea. Cultural Homestay did not pay host families for hosting students so it was sometimes challenging to recruit families.