Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia, PA     Fall 2020-Present

8th Grade Math Teacher

• Built relationships with over 100 students and ensured all students felt attended to with personalized feedback, class discussions, and encouragement. 

• Designed and implemented performance improvement plans for underperforming students in consultation with families and administrative staff

• Provided extra-curricular opportunities and extra help after school to ensure student success

• Virtually taught online for one year using many different platforms like Desmos, Smart Learning Suite, Padlet, Zoom, Google, Jamboard, and Nearpod to engage students

• Collaborated with other teachers to plan trips, PBIS events, fundraisers, dances, and end of the year activities and celebrations

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Pleasant Valley Middle School, Brodheadsville, PA                        Spring 2020

Student Teacher                                         

• Completed 300 hours student teaching in a 7th grade math inclusion classroom

• Executed ​unit plans of lessons on distributive property, inequalities, classifying triangles, triangle inequality theorem, and angle relationships

• Facilitated technology-based discovery lessons on the triangle inequality theorem using GeoGebra​

 

 

Resica Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, PA              Fall 2018 & Fall 2019

5th Grade Professional Development Instructor​

• Developed and implemented science experiments 

• Administered reading assessments and completed a summary based on data

• Prepared and taught lessons on reading comprehension​

 

 

Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA          Summer 2019

Teaching Fellow​

• Completed a nine week residency for a non profit organization  ​

• Received over 100 hours of teaching and leadership training and 75 hours of lead classroom experience 

• Executed unit plans of lessons on adding and subtracting rational numbers, multiplying and dividing rational numbers, and order of operations

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Stroudsburg Middle School, Stroudsburg, PA                                  Spring 2019

5th and 6th Grade Professional Development Instructor

• Prepared and taught lessons​ on perimeter of polygons and converting customary units of lengths

• Modified Instruction, handouts, and activities for students with IEP's and 504 Plans

 

Stroudsburg Junior High School, Stroudsburg, PA                               Fall 2018

Professional ​Development Instructor

• Developed and ​implemented an instructional program and task analysis for students with low incidence disabilities

• Worked with assistive technology including communication boards and text to speech devices 

 

J.T. Lambert Intermediate School, East Stroudsburg, PA                   Fall 2018

Professional Development Instructor​

• Developed and implemented English lessons on the writing process

• Prepared and taught math lessons on adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying and dividing numbers with exponents, and perfect squares

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Middle Smithfield Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, PA       Spring 2018

5th Grade Professional Development ​Instructor

• Prepared and taught English lessons on adverbs and persuasive writing 

• Developed and implemented social studies lessons

 

J.T. Lambert Intermediate School, East Stroudsburg, PA               Spring 2017

Homework Club Tutor ​

• Instructed eighth grade students struggling with math​