Amanda Karcz Email & Phone Number

United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

Highlands Ranch, Co

• Create and maintain a positive, safe educational environment while working with a diverse student population in a fast-paced learning environment.• Continually assess student learning and the effectiveness of the instruction provided, making changes through a flexible approach to maximize the learning potential of the individual and group as a whole. • Leverage differentiated instruction and cooperative learning to maximize the performance of the student’s taught. • Created engaging, effective curriculum in alignment with both state and national standards.• Developed and maintained strong relationships with all academic stakeholders, including students, their parents, other teachers, and school administrators, to forward the educational objectives of the organization.

Parker, Co

• Create and implement a skill-based NGSS-aligned curriculum that focuses on problem-solving and critical thinking and develop and teach lessons and units based on the 5-E model, differentiated to meet all 3 ability groups' readiness.• Implement Emergenetics strategies when grouping and differentiating lessons and integrated the use of technology in lessons, assignments, and projects to maximize the students learning potential.• Mentor and model the BEST teaching practices to developing teachers to perform at a high level. • Partnered with student service specialists to monitor students who may be candidates for RTI and use creativity to find a way to help students be successful. • Worked in collaboration with students on organization and executive functioning skills. Notable achievements while in the position have included:- Facilitated all 7th-grade students in the development of meaningful science fair projects where they competed against 7th and 8th-grade students at the other campus, with 22 competing at the Denver Regional Science Fair and 3 advancing to the State Science Fair.- 2x nominee for the prestigious "Apple Award."

Phoenix, Az

• Taught a number of courses, including biology, biology honors, and chemistry, to high school students. • Worked in collaboration with and led a professional learning community to develop and differentiate an honors and regular biology curriculum. • Differentiated instruction to meet the student's readiness, interests, and learning style for all students to experience academic success.• Incorporated biotechnology labs and exposed students to cutting-edge science and implemented Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) strategies and interactive notebooks.

Scottsdale, Az

• Leveraged a flexible teaching approach while teaching general science to 8th-grade students to maximize the individual and group's learning potential as a whole.• Delivered lessons from the Science Education for Public Understanding Program. (SEPUP) and FOSS curriculum kids Delta Education that engaged students through an inquiry approach to science. • Embedded personal projects to successfully enhance curriculum and student engagement.