Madeline Bear

1 0 1 4 West 3rd Street, Duluth, Minnesota 5 5 8 0 6

9 5 2 . 2 6 1 . 4 9 0 1 • bear0203@ d. u mn.edu

Teacher Candidate__________________________________

o Natural ability to effectively engage with all students and create a welcoming and
fun learning environment
o Believes that a major component to teaching is preparing students for the world
outside of the classroom building
o Continuously works on building and tending to relationships.
o Patient and supportive; provides individualized and differentiated assistance for
all students
o Believes that success is obtainable regardless of background and ability
o Finds literacy to be a resource, a tool useful in navigating life beyond the walls of
the classroom

Educational Background_____________________________

University of Minnesota Duluth Graduation: May 2020

Teaching Communication Arts and Literature GPA: 3.75

Vermilion Community College Graduated: May 2010

Associate in Arts

Teaching Experience________________________________

Northwestern Middle School September-November 2019

Maple, WI

Practicum Student

Denfeld High School March 2019-April 2019

Duluth, MN

Practicum Student

o Observed 9th and 11th grade English classrooms

o Taught an ACT Writing class for 11th graders every Tuesday for four weeks; I worked with
students on how best to navigate and prepare for the Writing portion
o Taught the first few days of Spirit Car by Diane Wilson to the 9th graders
o Sat in on different content area classrooms to get a feel for different teaching strategies
o Learned more about the Special Education Department via interviews with staff
o The 12th grade students had “Adulting Days”—instigated by their own request—where they had
an opportunity to take two classes of their choosing regarding topics from “Basic Car
Maintenance” to “How to Start Saving”. I was asked to sit on a panel to share and accept
questions regarding my non-traditional path after high school.
 NeWorld English Training Center July 2007-July 2008
Jiangyin, Jiangsu

English Teacher
o I taught teens and adults four days a week and a group of about nine 8-year-olds two days a week.
o For the teens and adults, lessons varied as seen below:
o Teaching hotel-English
o Helping teenagers study for their ILETS exam to study abroad in Canada
o Teaching business-English to Bekaert employees (a steel wire corporation)
o Conversational English based on a particular topic

Other Relative Work Experience________________________

Food Farm April 2015- November 2018

Wrenshall, Minnesota

Farmhand
Seeding, watering, planting, weeding, weeding, weeding! and harvesting 15 acres of vegetables.
Packing CSA boxes and wholesale orders. Caring for poultry- turkeys and chickens.

Positively 3rd Street Bakery April 2014-January 2017

Duluth, Minnesota

Co-owner
Front production shift: granola, cookies, bread. Customer service, packaging products, cashiering,
opening and closing duties. Baking shift: cookies, muffins, scones. Delivery shift. General cleaning.
The bakery is an employee owned cooperative. With the nature of such a business structure my
duties and responsibilities went beyond my set weekly shifts: doing the UNFI order, being on the
hiring committee, gardening, etcetera.

United States Forest Service May 2010-September 2010

Ely, Minnesota

Wilderness Volunteer
I worked with a ranger out of Kawishiwi District in the Boundary Waters. Each trip was between 8-12
days long followed by six-days back in town where I would work at the Chocolate Moose and the
Front Porch Coffee Shop. In the woods we maintained portages, dug new latrine holes, checked
campsites (fire grates and pits) and overall trail maintenance and garbage removal.

Memberships_______________________________________

Education Minnesota Student Member

References__________________________________________

Available upon request