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Plan lessons and develop curricula by reading and understanding prescribed texts. Offer academic support to students ensuring a safe learning environment. Collaborate with other English department staff to create lesson plans, teaching strategies, and interventions.

• Grade tests, pop quizzes, assignments, exams, while effectively communicating with parents, teachers, and counselors regarding underperforming.
• Continually assess student needs and provide ongoing support to struggling students as well as exceptional achievers.
• Help students learn, analyze, interpret, and dissect written material to compare, contrast, and discuss elements, like the theme, characters, and plot.
• Created yearly coursework including the selection of teaching materials; rapidly developed and adjusted lesson plans to meet unforeseen classroom situations.
• Implemented technological approaches to subject material; researched educational resources on the Internet.
• Fostered a positive community, and prepared students for local, state, and national competitions.

Teach a full academic curriculum of American History. Designed and implemented customized teaching programs. Developed the curriculum for the Interpreting American History through Film class. Deliver engaging history lessons on different time periods, movements, and other historical events and personalities.

• Integrated technology into the curriculum, supplementing class lectures and developing students' word processing and researching skills.
• Utilized Internet for resources on current events, history, and literature to complement learning activities
• Implemented various student-centered learning methodologies; significantly enhanced the class environment by acting as a facilitator to promote student leadership in initiating and creating positive learning opportunities.

Taught a full academic curriculum (reading, writing, communications, mathematics, and social science).  Effectively engaged the children in small group instruction, focusing on each individual’s personal most successful style of learning. Created yearly coursework including the selection of teaching materials;  rapidly developed and adjusted lesson plans that were developmentally appropriate and met state standards.

• Developed new teaching approaches after abrupt COVID-19 closures. Created virtual lessons via Google Classroom, Seesaw, YouTube, and Zoom.
• Created a classroom management technique for transitions incorporating positive reinforcement and consistent routines. This new method has since been adopted districtwide.
• Oversaw 2 community food drives during the COVID-19 closures.
• Measured, assessed, reported, and tracked student/child performance utilizing CLASS and Creative Curriculum Fidelity tool.
• Devised course assignment rubrics that were implemented and adopted schoolwide.
• Established best practices for instruction and learning including critical problem solving and cooperative process-oriented learning.

Design and present comprehensive lesson plans for advanced mathematics including Calculus Trigonometry, and Statistics, ensuring that each student can retain and understand the materials at hand. Develop unit-based projects that are centered on real-world situations to show students the importance of gaining solid education and how Math correlates with everyday life. Implement mathematical programs that build the knowledge and confidence of students to progress.

• Incorporate various technologies in the classroom including ELMO, Digital Image Projector, TI-83 Plus, and computer software. Collaborate with colleagues to integrate new activities and allocate effective resources.
• Introduced a Mathematics Enrichment Program for students who were not quite ready to advance to the next level; 100% of students progressed to the next level.
• Offered after-school tutoring to help struggling students improve their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Participated in various extracurricular activities. Attended all staff meetings and professional development workshops.
• Developed thematic units that incorporated real-world examples to introduce new materials, consolidate important concepts, and encourage student learning.

Taught 20 students in a full-day Kindergarten class, with the assistance of a Paraprofessional. Planned and implemented whole class, small group, and one-on-one instruction using developmentally appropriate practice. Set-up classroom, daily schedule, and monthly hallway bulletin board. Attended bi-weekly staff meetings.

• Participated in week-long Reading First workshops; devised new literacy activities and established a print-rich classroom environment; instilled a love for literacy in students.
• Utilized learning centers, technology, and manipulatives to introduce new topics and reach out to each child.

Develop and instruct age-appropriate lesson plans that encourage physical, emotional, social, and academic growth. Maintain individual student portfolios including skills checklists, labeled work samples, and narrative reports on areas needing improvement. Interact extensively with parents to provide regular progress reports. Showcase children's work to boost their self-esteem and to keep them motivated.

• Designed and implemented research-based early childhood programs (3-5 age group) to allow emotionally, physically, and learning-disabled students to be mainstreamed into the classroom; provided developmentally and culturally appropriate instruction to a variety of populations.
• Evaluated students learning capabilities and designed units of instruction accordingly.
• Utilized a variety of learning skills and provided multiple points of access to the curriculum.
• Established best practices for instruction and learning including critical problem solving and cooperative process-oriented learning.
• Leverage a broad spectrum of assessment tools; delivered feedback in ways that furthered their learning and spoke to each individual's growth areas.
• Developed innovative, standards-based units integrated across curriculum areas.

Develop an interest in each student's creative expression in visual terms by utilizing skills and techniques of artistic expression consistent with school guidelines; cultivate aesthetic understandings and appreciations to discover and create talents of students in the field of art. Demonstrated experience of art using acrylic paints including dry brushing, staining, layering, underpainting, monoprinting.

• Teach knowledge and skills in art, including drawing, painting, lettering, and art history
• Instruct students to develop aesthetic concepts and appreciations and the ability to make qualitative judgments about art
• Provide individual and small-group instruction to adapt the curriculum to the needs of students with varying intellectual and artistic abilities, and to accommodate a variety of instructional activities.
• Organize storage areas and control the use of materials, equipment, and tools to prevent loss or abuse, and to minimize the time required for distribution and collection.
• Evaluate each student’s performance and growth in knowledge and aesthetic understandings and prepare progress reports.
• Maintain required inventory records by selecting books, instructional materials, tools, instructional, and aids.
• Plan and present art displays and exhibitions designed to exhibit students’ work for the school and the community.
• Communicate with parents and school counselors on pupil progress.
• Participate in curriculum and developmental programs, such as after-school art club.

Cultivate discipline and classroom control that fosters a safe and positive learning environment for all students and staff per school and county policies; ensure adequate supervision to assure health, welfare, and safety of all students.

• Developed team-building activities that have enhanced student motivation and teamwork.
• Teach Math, Art, and English to classes ranging between 13–24 students from Grades 2 to 5.
• Incorporate digital technology into learning activities, including use of software applications as well as SMART boards, leading to subsequent implementation by the regular teacher.

Created and implemented daily lessons that accommodated multiple intelligences, aligned with the curriculum and state standards. Instilled a sense of music appreciation and encouraged students to expand their interests.

• Integrated cooperative learning activities and multicultural lessons to raise class participation levels, demonstrate cultural diversity in music and enhance students' academic and social skills.
• Organized and chaperoned field trips to musical presentations. Facilitated students on a field trip to a music-oriented museum and instrumental performance.
• Developed strong working relationships with all students to make certain that they felt welcome, at ease, and appropriately challenged within the classroom.
• Trained diverse students to perform in schools’ cultural events.