Literacy educational specialist - Bruce elementary - Memphis, TN
(2021-06)
Pre-K thru 3rd grade
- Plans and implements weekly lesson plans and newsletters
- Assist students with fundamental skills and RTI lessons
- Create small group lessons to enhance comprehension skills used during testing
- Track students growth progress during seasonal assessments
- Create motivational learning bulletin boards monthly
- Facilitate educational clubs for elementary age students
- Track data on 65 students
- Attend weekly data meetings with grade chair teachers
- Perform several tutoring sessions with students with low test scores
- Cafeteria duty( monitor kindergarten during lunch)
Pre-K early childhood teacher assistant - Rozelle elementary - Memphis, TN
(2021-10 - 2021-05)
Contact: Kimberely Shaw ( principal)
- Plans and implements weekly lesson plans and newsletters
- Assist students with exercises and class activities
- Assist in implementing small group activities with a focus around the weekly theme
- Attend monthly staff meetings
- Document students' behavior
- Monitor various skills and document anecdotal notes and brigance inventory skills
- Assist with the Big Day curriculum
Site director - Ymca( White Station Middle school) - Memphis, TN
(2020-08 - 2021-09)
Contact: Yvonne Wilson ( area manager); (901) 650-3912
- Oversees a virtual learning environment within the community center
- Implement a daily curriculum that meets the YMCA expectations and guidelines
- Provide my staff with direction and a sense of reassurance daily
- Implement and maintain weekly lesson plans, calendars, and safe transition activities
- Create room setup to promote safe transitional interaction
- Develop and maintain a safe professional relationship with staff and parents through proper communication filled with empathy
- Assist staff and children with technical support
- Decorate bulletin boards and classrooms
- Submit all weekly paperwork in a timely manner
- Attends workshops and trainings for administration and assist my staff in obtaining the necessary trainings for their growth
- Knowledgeable of several educational platforms that different schools are using for virtual learning
- Strong empathy filled leadership skills
- Assist in controlling and maintaining supplies and inventory in an organized manner
- Model the YMCA core values creating a calm peaceful learning environment in my facility
- Motivate and inspire my scholars daily
Teacher Assistant - Porter Leath Academy Head start - Memphis, TN
(2014-06 - 2021-09)
Contact: Yolanda Ford (901) 314-1542
- Daily routines
- Prepare lesson plan
- Preparing instructional materials needed throughout the day
- Reinforces classroom lesson plans
- Provide assistance to special need students
- Reinforces knowledge and skills taught in small group setting
- Monitoring student behavior
- Performs routine clerical tasks required, preparing newsletters, copying and filing monthly paperwork
Recreational Leader - Gaisman Community Center - Memphis, TN
(2012-06 - 2024-09)
Contact: John Lowe (901) 830-6064
- Provide homework assistance to students from schools in the community
- Teach creative art expression and art in the afternoons to local children in the community
- Provide daily assistance and interactions to vendors in the community in the building
- Create monthly newsletters, flyers, and advertisement for upcoming events
- Teach summer school each year to children ranges from 5-12
Teacher Asst. - Shelby County head start , (Martin Luther King) - Memphis, TN
(2003-08 - 2009-05)
Contact: Mary Holman
- Assist teacher with preparing materials needed throughout the day
- Teaching preschoolers their fundamental skills in a small class
- Developed lesson plans and planned appropriate field trips
- Prepare lesson plans
- Interact one on one with children in a small group setting with different disabilities such as ADHD, ODD, and Bipolar
