JaclynRausch

I am a doc student in the K-12 Educational Administration (Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development) program. I have taught at several school districts in Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, including Boardman, Poland and Lakeview. I have been a Title 1 reading and math teacher for K-4 inclusion and pullout, a gifted language arts teacher for self-contained 4th grade, 5th and 6th grade language arts, and a general ed language arts teacher for 7th and 8th grade. I have also taught as an adjunct faculty member for Kent State (Salem Branch) and Youngstown State University in a variety of courses from Emerging Literacy to Methods for Teaching the Gifted. I currently work as a supervisor for the Trumbull County Educational Service Center to provide support (professional development, answers to questions, whatever is requested) for our 20 school districts in English Language Arts and coordinate services for identifying and serving gifted and talented students in 3 of those districts in particular. I also run the county spelling bee and the Saturday Enrichment Program, among other things.

My research interest is studying the additional qualifications that third grade teachers must have as specified by the Third Grade Reading Guarantee to see if they actually correlate to an increase in student achievement on the third grade reading Ohio Achievement Assessment.