Credentials

kimskorner4teachertalk.com

JUST WHO IS

KIM?

This information is here for those of you who are wondering who I am. I did not create my site as a tribute to myself. However, I have had several inquiries into my credentials, so here they are.

This page was last updated 28 July 2006.

My name is Kim Steele, and I am originally from Oklahoma. I now live in southwest Kansas, where I have been teaching in the same school district since 1988. I taught 7th grade language arts for six years, 8th grade language arts for 10 years, and I am now in my third year of teaching language arts to high school English as a Second Language students. This year marks my 19th year as an educator.

I earned my B.A. degree in English and Secondary Education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University. I am currently working on obtaining my ESL endorsement, even though I have been teaching ESL students for the past 10 years..

I was trained in the Six Trait Writing Model in 1991 before being trained as a facilitator to train teachers in 1993. I have been facilitating training sessions for new and veteran teachers for my school district since then.

In 1994, I scored Six Trait Writing Assessments for the state of Kansas. I have not scored since because I now have three children, and they are my number one priority. I do plan to attend a scoring session in the near future.

In February 1995, I gave a presentation on Six Trait Writing at the Kansas Association of Middle Level Educators Symposium.

I served on the committee to rewrite and update the middle school language arts curriculum and district assessments from 1997 to 2004.

Before moving to the high school, I served as my building's Language Arts Curriculum Leader from 1997 to 2004.

In 2006, I served on a committee for the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas to help set cut scores for the Kansas English Language Proficiency Assessment, which is a state assessment for ESL students.

I have presented inservices to teachers in my district and other districts in southwest Kansas for Six Trait Writing, the writing process, writing across the curriculum, and graphic organizers.

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This site last updated 2 September 2007.

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