•Head teach 7th grade language arts, focusing on building independent comprehension skills and improving narrative and persuasive writing•Teach two 8th grade history courses on post Civil-War America with year-long focus on issues of American citizenship and domestic/international responsibility•Serve as "mentor" (advisor) to a group of middle school students throughout their middle school years*Serve as co-chair of Benchmark's DEI Working Group, with a purpose of bringing greater diversity, equity, and inclusion to all parts of the school

•Co-teach 8th grade English, focusing on reading comprehension (especially of themes), literary analysis, goal-setting, and metacognitive awareness (have co-taught 6th grade as well)•Head teach two sections of 7th and 8th grade American history•Serve as "mentor" (advisor) to a group of middle school students throughout their middle school years

•Tutor undergraduates, graduates, and continuing ed. students in all components of essay/paper writing •Tutor undergraduates in reading comprehension skills such as identifying/paraphrasing key information and constructing main ideas•Present staff and student workshops on topics such as the SQ3R reading method and tutoring students with learning disabilities•Assist writing center in clerical duties, such as maintaining visitation log spreadsheet and organizing tutoring session reports

7th Grade ELA and Social Studies

•Designed and facilitated lessons that emphasized factual and inferential comprehension and analyzing and synthesizing gathered evidence•Created materials to assist comprehension and improve writing skills, such as graphic organizers, PowerPoint presentations, and writing prompts •Assisted cooperating teachers in assessing students’ written work

•Researched and compiled a collection of grade- and population-appropriate short stories for six groups of at-risk, urban students in grades 5-10•Developed activities to accompany each story, as well as supplementary activities such as “Definition Derby” vocabulary activity•Facilitated Reading Olympics competition to accompany camp theme

•Taught provided lesson plans in English, history, and science•Supervised after school study hall

Literature and Writing Teacher – Grades 6-10 •Taught two sections of literature and/or writing (10-14 students), emphasizing skills in factual and inferential reading comprehension and vocabulary, as well as skills in expository and creative writing, including paragraph and essay organization, sentence structure, diction, and the steps of the writing process•Designed curriculum and created lesson plans for these classes•Composed 1-2 paragraph long reports about each student three times a year, in addition to letter grades•Wrote biweekly electronic updates to each student’s advisor•Participated in monthly meetings to discuss individual student and class progress•Attended semi-annual parent conferences to update families on student progressFocus Teacher – Grades 7-12 •Taught 4-5 students daily in forty-minute-long individual sessions•Designed and implemented individual curricula to help remediate each student’s main areas of difficulty via isolated comprehension and writing exercises, literary discussion, and written assignments•Served as academic advisor and advocate for each Focus student•Maintained weekly communication with student families via email or telephone•Led semi-annual parent conferences to update families on student progress•Composed 1-2 page long reports three times a year about each student’s progress and goalsHistory Teacher – Grades 6-8 •Taught two sections of history (Ancient Civilizations, World Conflict in the Twentieth Century), emphasizing class discussion, study skills, and small group project completion•Fulfilled similar responsibilities to those of literature/writing teacher; see above

•Provided customer service for the music, fiction, children's, travel, language, and science sections•Maintained inventory of same sections

•Completed summer teaching internship for college students teaching academic subjects to local at-risk population•Designed curriculum and taught 2 English classes to students in grades 9 and 10•Assisted in Spanish class elective•Assisted in production of summer yearbook