Susan VanDyke
susan.vandyke@swbell.net

Educator/In-Home Child Care Provider

• Taught Beginning Digital Imaging using MGI Photo Suites 4 to adult continuing education students.

• Proven success in teaching mastery of digital imaging techniques demonstrated in projects.   

• Successfully taught, Buying and selling on E-Bay, and MS Publisher                                                                                                              2/03-7/03

Brook    Tsinghua University, Summer English Program at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 

China.     (Previously taught ESL in Taipei, Taiwan for two years to adults). 
                                                                                                                                      Summer 2002

    · Increased student GPA.  Taught and developed ESL curriculum for 125 students ranging from ages 5 to 17.
     · Improved teaching methods by mentoring Chinese teachers in western teaching methodologies.

· Proven success in student acquisition of English.  TESOL
 Practicum, Comprehensive Language Program (CLP).  ESL level 1-6 adult college students. Developed and taught lesson plans for ESL.
· Designed and successfully implemented an E-Pal Internet based communicative field project to promote global language learning.   Students were from a variety of countries, but primarily Hispanic.

· Successfully developed and administered a wide variety of clinical assessment tools including state and national tests.  Worked with assessment team to evaluate students with reading difficulties that included an awareness of dialect variations and respect for linguistic differences. 
· Parent conferencing resulted in successful discussions about their child’s reading behavior, and successfully designing appropriate instruction for both the classroom and the clinical setting.  

Thomas Elementary, Plano, Texas                                                                   2/98-5/98

· Overall clearly outstanding ratings in student teaching, third and fourth grade. Designed curriculum for all subject areas and implemented assessments for inclusion classroom.
· Actively participated in vertical teacher team meetings and curriculum planning. 
· Taught third grade gifted and talented students that embodied a whole language curriculum.
· Developed and taught daily inquiry lessons that invited the children to work cooperatively and explore their ideas.

· Superior performance ratings in early field experience practicum, 120 hours.
· Observed, taught, and planned daily all content lesson plans.

·Clearly outstanding evaluation in school age child case study. The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding of behavior through observing and recording a true and objective picture of the child’s actions.
· Developmental behavior was interpreted and analyzed. 

 

· Consistent top producer in outside commissioned sales in lighting & electrical design for commercial construction and high-end custom home market. Trained inside sales staff in product and purchase order procedures.

· Maintained consistent gains in client portfolios.  Responsible for operations, and management of diversified portfolios for clients with a minimum liquid net worth of $5 million. Trained administrative staff to place orders.  

· Successfully established new accounts by traveling to cities throughout the US and Canada promoting Las Vegas at trade shows, and city wide events, including radio and television appearances. 
· Maintained room night quota, averaging 2500 room nights booked per month for 2100 room property. Trained administrative staff to do room booking procedures.

· Maintained 100% return bookings.  Responsible for meeting and space coordination for this 3174-room property.

M.S., Computer Education and Cognitive Systems, University of North Texas,
Denton, TX - Magna Cum Laude                                                                              2002
M.Ed., Early Childhood Education and Developmental Reading, University of
North Texas, Denton, TX - Magna Cum Laude                                                           2001
Post-Baccalaureate Studies – Reading Specialization, 45 hours,
University of North Texas, Denton TX                                                                      1996-1998
B.A., Art & Performance; Minor, Business Mgmt – Cum Laude, University
of Texas at Dallas                                                                                                   1993

A.A. Liberal Arts, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia                                       1969

TESOL Certification, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, (UNT).                   May 2002
Web Development in Education and Training Environments,
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, (UNT).                                                    May 2002
State Board for Educator Certification:
Texas Standard Teacher Info. Processing Technologies I (IPT)                  3/21/02-11/30/07
Texas Provisional Elementary Reading Teacher, Grades 1-8,     8/20/99,  Expiration – Life
Texas Provisional Elementary Self-Contained Teaching, Grades 1-8,   8/20/99,  Exp – Life

· Computer skills: MS Windows 98, MS XP, MS Office 2000 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, E-mail) on PC and Macintosh platforms. HTML, C++, Hyper Studio, MGI Photo Suites 4, Adobe Photoshop.  Graphic Animators, Digital Photography, FTP, Front Page, and Dreamweaver.  
· Languages: English, Spanish.

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