Motivated, passionate English teacher with over ten years working in experiential education with teenagers. Hardworking and reliable. Excellent leadership skills. Proficient in teaching literature and writing lessons to students.
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- Created and revised an engaging, place-based curriculum for Honors English while meeting Common Core standards and learning targets
- Tailored AP curriculum to include place-based content while meeting College Board standards and learning targets
- Every semester, adapted lesson plans to address knowledge gaps and inconsistencies for students from thirty or more different sending schools in the United States and Chile
- Mentored four different English Teaching Fellows over four semesters, which required an additional 3-6 hours per week
- Facilitated a writing-intensive course through multiple-revision processes, peer review workshops, and individual student-teacher conferences for each formal writing assignment
- Facilitated Socratic seminars and implemented Harkness discussions (by week 8, students created their own questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy and led class discussions)
- Modified assignments and content to meet English language learners' needs
- Differentiated instruction according to student ability and skill level.
- Adapted curriculum to remote instruction after COVOID-19 closures, teaching via Zoom, incorporating new strategies to engage students, and creating different methods of assessing student understanding
Primary Residential Faculty (October 2017-May 2018):
- Primary on-duty faculty from noon on Friday to noon on Monday
- Administered and logged all medications
- Provided social/emotional support for thirty or more students
- Enforced community norms and rules
- Checked students into housing by 10pm
- Planned and facilitated all weekend activities (18-20 weeks per semester) as well as Monday's Community Meeting
- Assisted or facilitated weekend classes (8 total classes, 4 hours each)
Secondary Residential Faculty (in addition to teaching):
- 3-4 weeks per academic year, acted as "full-on" staff in addition to normal teaching schedule, administering medications, monitoring study hall, enforcing community norms, and providing social/emotional support
- 8-10 weeks per academic year, acted as activity staff in addition to normal teaching schedule, facilitating a variety of after-school activities (hiking, kayaking, wood-chopping, cleaning, among others)
Expedition Program Leader:
- Designed and implemented AEPs for backpacking and river expeditions for seven different week-long expeditions in backcountry Idaho and Chile, with 9-18 students per expedition and 1-3 staff members beneath me in the hierarchy of leadership
- Organized and packed food for six different week-long expeditions (river and backpacking) in the backcountry of Idaho and Chile with 9-12 students per expedition and 1-3 staff members
- Offered support through risk management and experience as “other instructor”
- Trained students and new staff in technical skills and risk management
- Successfully evacuated two students from two different expeditions with medical concerns in Patagonia Chile
- Led and/or assisted in logistics, food, and gear for 17 separate expeditions with Alzar School
Medical Coordinator:
- Conducted “Entry and Exit Medical Screenings” for 30-37 students each semester with Alzar SchoolCreated, edited, and maintained medical information summaries for all staff to reference each semester with Alzar School
- Inventoried and packed student medications for every expedition as well as international travel each semester with Alzar School
Kayak Instructor:
- Program leader for 10 different kayak orientation clinics with Alzar School
- Instructed more than 100 students in whitewater kayaking techniques/skills
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