Current Address:

712 W. Illinois Street

Apartment 1
Urbana, IL 61801

Katherine Bora

Permanent Address:
1620 Pheasant Trail
Inverness, IL, 60067

(847)682-3786
bora2@illinois.edu

Objective: To secure a student teaching position at John Hersey High School for spring 2016.
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts in History

May 2016
Cumulative GPA: 3.90/4.00

Professional Educator License

Endorsement in Social Studies/History 6-12
Endorsement in Mathematics 6-12

Norwich, UK
June-July 2014

University of East Anglia

International Summer School Student

Studied abroad and studied in-depth medieval diseases and the plague

William Fremd High School

Palatine, IL
Cumulative GPA: 3.9583/4.0

Honors

Campus Honors Program: Fall 2013-Present

James Scholar: Fall 2012-Present
Presidents Award Program: Fall 2012-Present
Deans List: Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Robert L. & Rena Williams Scholarship in Education Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Robert H. Bierma Scholarship in History Fall 2015, Spring 2016

Field Experience
Centennial High School
Field Placement

Completed over 30 observation hours in eleventh grade and twelfth grade classrooms
Individually designed and implemented differentiated lesson plans to students
Utilized teacher planning period to reflection teaching performance based on feedback from a cooperating
teacher

Liberal Arts and Sciences 101 Internship

Teaching Assistant for the College Freshman Level Class LAS101

Urbana, IL
August- December 2014, 2015

Developed and implemented lessons for a class of twenty-three college freshman on a weekly basis improving
freshman performance level during their first semester at UIUC
Guided twenty-three students through the transition to college life by serving as a mentor
Collaborated with fellow interns in LAS 399 to prepare for my section of LAS 101

Monument Valley High School

Reading Instructor

Champaign, IL
August-December 2015

Kayenta, AZ
January 2015

Instructed students on the Navajo Indian Reservation for five days

Shaped students writing skills through leading a unit on Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
and James D. Houston

Current Address:
712 W. Illinois Street
Apartment 1
Urbana, IL 61801

Katherine Bora

Permanent Address:
1620 Pheasant Trail
Inverness, IL, 60067

(847)682-3786
bora2@illinois.edu

Champaign, IL
August-December 2014

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

Field Placement

Completed over 30 observation hours in a sixth grade classroom

Coordinated co-taught lessons with two other student observers through collaboration and co-planning
Designed lesson plans to enhance student understanding of the concepts and promote student centered
learning

Related Experience
Urbana, IL
September 2012-May 2013

America Reads-America Counts

Tutor in Math and Reading

Tutored all level of middle school students in the subjects of math and reading
Fostered problem solving, reasoning, and analyzing skills in students both in groups and one-on-one
Created personal relationships with the students and acted as a mentor

Work Experience
Mount Prospect, IL
May-August 2015

Apex Campus
Website Designer and Manager

Collaborated with programmers to design an online education and training platform

Piloted beta testing for the website and analyzed the data received from testing
Facilitated and led conference meetings detailing the website progress

Mount Prospect, IL
May-August 2013, 2014

Apex Continuing Legal Education(CLE)

Customer Service Manager

Wrote a Customer Service training manual to teach future managers the companys customer policy and
developed detailed step-by-step instructions on how to best help customers in various situations
Performed legal research using online web data bases to update insurance cases and their decisions
Edited legal education seminars using professional video editing software
Formulated a plan to update the website and enact a mobile version of the website

Activities
Champaign, IL
September 2013-Present

Fencing Illini Club

Active Club Board Member

Actively attend team fencing practice with 18 other team members to strengthen my fencing ability
Represent the university at colligate competitions at Ohio State University and Notre Dame

Using a website admin

Languages- Spanish (Intermediate)
Computer Languages- Python and VPython (Intermediate)

Skills

References
Mr. Joseph Pickell
Social Studies Teacher
Franklin Middle School, Champaign, IL
pickeljo@champaignschools.org
(217) 377-9746

Jamil Johnson
LAS Internship Supervisor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
jdjohns1@illinois.edu
(217) 333-2157