Stephen G. Itzenhuiser
608-848-8561 (home)
608-225-9621 (cell)
E-Mail: [email protected]Education
Teacher Certification: English 6-12, 2002.
BA - Philosophy, 1996.
BA - English, 1994.
University of Wisconsin at Parkside
UW-Parkside GPA - 3.15
Teaching Experience
Summer, 2003
Extended Learning Classes – Indian Mound Middle School, McFarland, WI
Middle School Reading and Writing for Grades 6-8
School Year 2002-2003
Substitute Teaching:
McFarland, Deerfield, Verona, Middleton-Cross Plains, Waunakee,
Oregon School Districts
Spring, 2002
Student Teaching – Horlick High School, Racine, WI
9th Grade English, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Introduction to
Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, Sonnets, Newspaper Project
with elements from the play running throughout.
Survey II English, Knowles’s A Separate Peace: Introduction to John
Knowles, Literary Elements, Compare/Contrast paper of Protagonist and
Antagonist via use of Venn Diagram.
Student Teaching – Lance Middle School, Kenosha, WI
7th Grade English, Poetry Unit: A library project in which students researched biographical information on a poet, as well as the subject and meaning of a
poem and literary elements used in the poem.
Fall, 2001
Teacher's Assistant - English, University of Wisconsin at Parkside
Freshman Composition Preparation: A writing course held in a computer-
mediated classroom designed to strengthen students’ clarity, grammar,
punctuation, and computer skills in preparation for further English course
work.
Field Experience – Survey III English, Holick High School, Racine, WI
Presented a lesson on a portion of The Ramayama in which the students
addressed difficult passages and directed questions to other students for
answers.
Field Experience – Exceptional Education English Classroom, Holick High
School, Racine, WI
Worked with Exceptional Education teacher in both inclusion and pullout
classrooms, eventually interviewing one student and performing a mock
evaluation to be compared with student’s caseworker’s IEP.
Field Experience – McKinley Middle School, Kenosha, WI
Presented lessons from Holes, by Louis Sachar in which students identified
with specific characters from the story to people they know in their lives,
and later wrote letters from the viewpoint of one character from the story.
Field Experience – Robert Bray, Community Center, Racine, WI
A project designed to teach young people to organize and operate sound,
light and camera equipment for talent show rehearsals, try-outs and
productions. Also, computer technology was explored for creating videos,
music and advertisements.
Spring 2000 Field Experience – Pleasant Prairie Elementary School,
Kenosha, WI
Classroom observations and assistance, as well as student interviews
studying Piaget’s theories of cognitive development.
Sept. 1999 - June 2000
Substitute Teacher
Experienced effectively all grade levels and subject matters in many
public and private schools in and around Racine, WI, including the
Racine Unified School District, Union Grove Elementary and Middle
Schools, Raymond Elementary School, St. Catherine’s High School, and
The Prairie School.
Other Experience
Support Staff, In-school Suspension Room, Indian Mound Middle School,
McFarland, WI, April – May, 2003
Senior Counselor, Concordia Language Villages, Moorhead, MN 56562,
Summer 2002
Scheduler / Press Operator, Color Arts, Racine, WI, 1995-2001.
Study Abroad, Bonn, Germany, 1993-1994.
Student Supervisor, UW-Parkside Library Circulation Desk, Kenosha, WI,
1989-1993.