Tutor - GO Learning Center - Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
(2020-06)
Tutor - C2 Education of Ellicott City, MD - Ellicott City, Maryland
(2023-12)
Tutor - Huntington Learning Center - Wyomissing & North Wales, Pennsylvania; Lutherville, Maryland
(2011-06 - 2020-05)
- Deliver instruction in exam preparation, study skills, language arts, and basic mathematics
- Select and regularly reevaluate supplemental curriculum pieces for more than 250 students' individual tutoring programs, including more than 75 exam prep students
- Identify program-wide curricular needs and design materials about vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and punctuation
- Utilize both formative and summative assessments to ascertain students' baseline knowledge, evaluate students' progress, and monitor their understanding
- Analyzed five years of ACT and SAT exams to ascertain the latest trends in vocabulary usage
- Created and developed catalogue of Top 72 vocabulary words used on the ACT and SAT tests
- Use Top 72 catalogue to help expand students' working vocabulary, and to impart skills in recognizing and employing word roots, prefixes, and word charge to manage unknown words
- Using the Huntington model, instruct students regarding strategies for essay preparation; determination of learning goals; prediction and answer elimination; and time management
- Assess each student's individual needs based on observations and conversations about learning style, current abilities, and areas of relative strength and weakness
- Examine students' results on periodic practice tests, using those outcomes and data to more precisely focus on areas of need, targeting instruction accordingly
- Utilize Huntington's online platform, eCenter, to deliver and monitor students' SAT and ACT tutoring programs
- Maintain accurate records documenting student attendance, progress, performance, and needs
Test Prep Coordinator - Huntington Learning Center - Wyomissing & North Wales, Pennsylvania; Lutherville, Maryland
(2018 - 2018)
Adjunct Professor-African American Women's Literature - Albright College - Reading, Pennsylvania
(2016-06 - 2020-10)
- Create new course, developing syllabus and selecting reading and multimedia materials
- Select and regularly reevaluate reading and multimedia materials
- Design and implement curriculum, making adjustments as necessary to address student needs, current events, and the thrust of classroom discussion
- Utilize both formative and summative assessments to ascertain students' baseline knowledge, evaluate students' progress, and monitor their understanding
- Incorporate the latest relevant scholarship into the study of literature
- Develop connections with contemporary and historical events, creating opportunities for students to discover broader contextual and personal understanding
- Facilitate discussion based upon each literary work, seeking to connect it to students' experiences and larger sociocultural issues
- Deliver direct instruction focusing upon historical, political, and literary contexts
- Evaluate and provide feedback on student work, online, in person, and in writing
- Maintain accurate records of student attendance, consultations, and work submitted
Language Arts Teacher - Governor Mifflin School District - Shillington, Pennsylvania
(2001-12 - 2018-06)
- Engaged in daily lesson planning to design instruction for more than 2,500 students
- Aligned learning activities to national, state, and district curricular standards as well as student needs
- Utilized both formative and summative assessments to ascertain students' baseline knowledge, evaluate students' progress, and monitor their understanding
- Introduced new curricular components to 11th grade Honors class focused around Shakespeare's play The Tempest and the documentary film Shakespeare Behind Bars
- Through The Tempest / Shakespeare Behind Bars unit, engaged in exploration of such issues as forgiveness, the aftermath of physical or emotional violence, and restorative justice
- Successfully coordinated defense of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings against community challenge by writing a rationale defending the work's past and future inclusion
- Designed and instructed Multiculturalism, Journalism, and Speech elective courses, selecting curricular materials and learning activities; instructed more than 250 students in those courses
- Incorporated accommodations stipulated in more than 300 students' IEPs and 504 plans
- Designed alternative instructional strategies for special needs students, creating modified tests, working one-on-one with students with learning challenges, and managing the classroom space to optimize engagement and attentiveness
- Delivered instruction, regularly reevaluating and adjusting the instruction based upon student feedback and needs
- Facilitated discussion by creating a safe, kindness-based space in which students felt empowered to participate, confident that their ideas would be heard and valued in a non-judgmental way
- Provided constructive feedback to students in a variety of environments, including during instruction, in one-on-one consultations, via Google Drive, and in writing by commenting on submitted assessments
- Harnessed new technologies to better respond to students' needs, using document sharing platforms such as Google Drive and Google Classroom; and in writing by commenting on submitted assessments
- Collaborated with colleagues, administrators, and parents to develop the most effective customized teaching strategies
- Communicated frequently with students, parents, case managers, counselors, fellow teachers, and administrators to ensure that interventions for special needs students were appropriate, effective, and in compliance with documented accommodations
- Maintained accurate records documenting student attendance, progress, performance, behavior, and needs
