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SECONDARY ENGLISH TEACHER
Summary

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.

Skills

Skills & Certifications


Technical:

  • Commercial Driver's Licence (Idaho)
  • Wilderness First Responder (WMI - NOLS)
  • Adult & Child CPR and AED (WMI - NOLS)
  • Epinephrine Administration (WMI - NOLS)
  • Level 4 Swiftwater Rescue Technician (ACA & SSI)
  • Wilderness & Remote First Aid Instructor (American Red Cross)
  • First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor (American Red Cross)

Computer:

  • Blackbaud/MySchoolApp platform
  • Zoom
  • BYOC (Build Your Own Curriculum)
  • Google Suite
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Acrobat

Language:

  • Proficient in written Spanish, competent in spoken Spanish
Experience
08/2018 - 05/2020
Alzar School - Cascade, IdahoSecondary English Teacher

- 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

10/2017 - 05/2020
Alzar School - Cascade, IdahoResidential & Expeditionary Faculty

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

05/2015 - 08/2018
Camp Illahee - Brevard, NCHead of Kayaking & Adventure Trips
  • Organized and led whitewater kayaking (class II-IV) trips for adolescent girls six days/week for eight weeks (summer only)
  • Assisted in scheduling, logistics, recruiting/hiring, and training of adventure trips staff (summer only)
  • Monitored and managed up to eleven trips staff members (kayaking, climbing, and hiking) six days each week for eight to ten weeks (summer only)
01/2017 - 05/2017
Brevard High School - Brevard, NCStudent Teacher (English 10)
  • Planned and taught every class for ten weeks; co-taught for six weeks
  • Led discussions and seminars on class texts
  • Differentiated process and product to meet varying student needs between inclusion, standard, and pre-AP English classes
  • Provided constructive feedback for students on all work through grading and conferences
  • Managed classroom behavior and engagement for three classes of twenty or more students
  • Maintained and updated content, assignments, announcements, and grades
  • Participated in IEP and 504 meetings, parent conferences, and faculty training
Education and Training
05/2017
Brevard CollegeBrevard, NCTeaching Licensure: Secondary English Language Arts
05/2009
University of The SouthSewanee, TNBachelor of Arts: English Language And Literature
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Alzar School
  • Camp Illahee
  • Brevard High School

School Attended

  • Brevard College
  • University of The South

Job Titles Held:

  • Secondary English Teacher
  • Residential & Expeditionary Faculty
  • Head of Kayaking & Adventure Trips
  • Student Teacher (English 10)

Degrees

  • Teaching Licensure : Secondary English Language Arts
    Bachelor of Arts : English Language And Literature

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