1. Linda Abdelhadi
Teaching Portfolio
2006 – Present
A good teacher is like a
candle - it consumes itself
to light the way for others.
Author Unknown

2. Current Resume

4. Teaching Certificate
LANGUAGE
ARTS
MATH
ART

5. Philosophy of Education

6. Letters of Recommendation

8. Middle School Mathematics
6th, 7th & 8th Grade

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7th Grade students playing a “Tug of War”
review game on Percents
Teaching Math
Should be FUN!

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MATH PICTIONARY!
Students played a game of Geometry Math

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Learning about Area, Perimeter
and Volume through ART!
I believe in Hands-on
learning…Students learn
better by being able to
apply their knowledge
and create artifacts!

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Relating Current Events to the
Curriculum Setting a purpose for
learning and establishing
real life connections helps
students relate content
area to real life situations.

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History in Math??? Learning
Math through Mathematicians

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Patterns and Shapes…The ART of
Tessellations

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Physics and Math! Egg Drop
Students designed a
basket and calculated
whether their raw egg
would withstand the
fall!

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4th Grade
ROCKS!!!

17. 4th Graders try to defeat
GRAVITY!!!
How many
pennies can your
straw house
HOLD???
Hands-on experiments
helps students better
understand science
concepts.

18. Electricity Did it
light???

19. Building Blocks of Life! 4th
Grade creates a model cell

20. Mixtures and Solutions

21. Science and Writing
Students
learned about
adaptations and
habitats and
created their
own animals

22. Vocabulary Fun! Reviewing
our vocabulary words through
a word sort game

23. Novel Study
Daily Writing Log
Tales of a Fourth
Grade Nothing
By: Judy Blume
Students reflected and
made predictions
throughout the novel.

24. Fruit Poetry
Students wrote a
descriptive poem about
fruits using their 5
senses

25. Cinderella - A Thematic Unit
4th grade explored Cinderella
stories from all over the
world. Students were able to
compare and contrast the
stories, and created their own
picture book.
Student Samples

26. The Cinderella Play…Exploring
Drama and Theater

27. The United States of America
State Project…
Students wrote a
Report on a
state, created and
ABC picture
book, and made a
clay sculpture
representing
something from that
state

28. Sample Report

29. Time, Speed, Distance and
Weight – Paper Airplane
Students used their math
skills to calculate the
distance the paper planes
traveled and the time it
took. They made
predications prior to
launching them as to which
one will make it there
first/farthest and why.

30. Bulletin Boards

32. Art
Grades K-8

33. Newspaper Art
Students used
recycled newspaper
to make sculptures
Graduate
A bowl of Cereal with a spoon
Football Stadium

34. Leaf Animal Art Students used
various leaf shapes
and colors to
create animal art
Owl
Turkey

35. Bottle Art
Students used
plastic bottles to
create sculpture

36. Making Paper
Students made
paper and
constructed a
collage book

37. Scratch ArtStudents used
scratch art to
reveal color
pictures!

38. Ceramics
Students created pinch
pots, pottery and
plaques using clay. They
also glazed their pieces

39. Still Life Drawing
Student Learned about
various artists and
different techniques
and implemented their
styles in their work

40. Other Art Projects
Pumpkins
Crayon
shavings
Colors (Stained
Glass Affect)
Tie Dye Shirts
Name Design

41. My Personal Art Work
Media includes Stained Glass, Mold Making, Ceramics, Wheel
Throwing, Painting, Graphite and Charcoal drawing

42. Thank you
The art of teaching is the
art of assisting
discovery.
Mark Van Doren