• Mentor, assess, and provide feedback to Spanish teacher candidates on a regular basis through weekly meetings and frequent in-class observations of their teaching practice.• Evaluate teacher candidate preparedness to teach independently based on the California Standards for the Teaching Profession.• Foster and maintain effective communication with cooperating teachers, their teacher candidates, and program expectations.• Collaborate with program staff to communicate successes and concerns of the teacher candidates and cooperating teachers.

• Taught 1st Year, 2nd Year Spanish, and 3rd Year Honors Spanish courses to non-heritage speakers.• Taught 3rd Year level Spanish for two-way bilingual immersion students and AP Spanish Literature for heritage speakers. • Revamped the entire 3rd Year Spanish curriculum to align more with AP class expectations and increased enrollment of the class by an entire section through a collaborative promotion campaign with my fellow department teachers.• Designed units, assessments, and lessons collaboratively in small course-alike groups of teachers.• Implemented technology and web-based tools to engage students, assess mastery, and reinforce learning.• Created culturally authentic tasks that focused on proficiency and authentic use of Spanish.• Collaborated with bilingual immersion elementary school teachers for class projects and classroom visits.• Member of research team to implement project-based learning throughout the school.• Led professional development regarding project-based learning.• Collaborated with a team of teachers for district-wide school redesign project.

• Organized administration of annual state testing for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.• Communicated with teachers and parents about students being reclassified as proficient in English.• Supported teachers that were part of the English Language Development (ELD) program.• Provided information about LEP students’ proficiency levels to their teachers.

• Led restructuring and vertical planning of non-Heritage Spanish curriculum.• Discussed best practices for daily instruction, observed colleagues, and provided constructive feedback.• Attended monthly School Leadership Council meetings to discuss and decide school-wide matters relating to policy, curriculum, and budget.• Consulted with members of the school administration about concerns and ideas of the World Language Department.

• Collaborated with other School Site representatives to share teacher union information with the staff and bring up their issues in union meetings.• Supported teachers at the school site with Union/District Contract questions and problems.• Served as a voting member at a monthly teacher union meeting that makes decisions impacting the entire district.• Was a supervisory member in school site Leadership Council meetings to represent the union and the general interests of the teachers.

• Mentored and supported a Spanish teacher candidate from the Stanford Teacher Education Program for the entire school year.• Worked closely with the teacher candidate daily on creating lesson plans, building an effective classroom management system, and developing a positive classroom culture.• Observed and provided feedback on the student teacher's lessons in class.• Formally evaluated the student teacher on a quarterly basis on their performance on the California Standards for the Teaching Profession.

• Planned and implemented diverse units and lessons for two Spanish III classes emphasizing conversation and authentic uses of the language• Assisted in teaching two AP Spanish Language classes by leading short lessons and serving as a support for the students• Worked collaboratively with the Spanish department and 11th grade-level team • Participated in professional development workshops led by faculty members

• Observed and taught short lessons to a Summer ELD - Drama class of 6th - 8th grade students as a teaching team member• Assessed individual student progress of English language development both individually and collaboratively

• Taught afterschool math to small groups of children (Kindergarten – 5th grade) at various Palo Alto area schools• Planned lessons that integrated fun and innovative ways to think about math concepts and numbers• Corresponded regularly with parents about their children’s progress and regularly attended team meetings

• Recorded and edited various television programs and other media for upper-level Spanish courses• Provided consultation for matters regarding computers and media software

• Ran human subjects in various experiments dealing with new language acquisition based on age of second language learned• Collected, organized, sorted, and analyzed experiment data

• Fostered growth and development of three-to five-year -olds in a child-centered classroom by applying child development theory learned in a developmental psychology course• Helped prepare the classroom for the school day and assisted clean-up when the day ended• Participated in faculty meetings

• Summer Intern working on a multi-million dollar capital campaign by contacting potential donors and organizing fundraisers