Dian Buchanan-Hamilton Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Teach range of subjects including marketing, math, social studies, and English language arts (ELA), often in middle schools in Queens.
• Retained at each school as a “permanent” substitute for entire school year based on effectiveness of classroom management and instruction, functioning as a full-time classroom teacher.
• Manage classrooms by keeping students engaged in learning activities and treating them with respect.
• Taught Intro to Finance and Entrepreneurship to 9th and 10th graders at HS for Economics & Finance in Manhattan in 2018, using Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) curriculum.
• Coached teams during school’s NFTE’s Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge pitch competition, including winning team that developed an app called LifeSaver for older people to ask for help with errands.
• Taught remotely during COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in person for several months in 2021.

Kingston, Jamaica

• With a partner, created upscale trunk shows for upper middle to upper class Jamaican women seeking exclusive shopping experiences.
• Sourced and curated clothing and accessories in New York and Los Angeles and shipped to Jamaica.
• Identified models and makeup artists for fashion shows.
• Successfully marketed 5-day events through newspaper advertising, word of mouth, flyers, and emailing a custom slide show to contacts
• Attracted 50+ shoppers to each event.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Taught 4-year-old children at pre-school in predominantly Caribbean and African immigrant community. Averaged 18 children in each class.
• Taught children to read fluently at 1st grade level.
• Organized Black History Month celebrations, multi-cultural shows and events, and Christmas concerts showcasing children singing together.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Taught Language Arts and Math to Grade 3 as part of nationally recognized summer enrichment program.
• Produced student show at end of summer, including supervising a 3rd grader who choreographed a dance to “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now.”

Jamaica

• Taught 4 business-related courses at prestigious all-boys public high school. Averaged 40 students per class. Advisor to Debate Team and the Schools Challenge Quiz Team.
• Developed weekly and long-term lesson and unit plans with clear objectives based on core curriculum and syllabus.
• Effectively managed classroom, creating an environment conducive to learning.
• 75% or more of students passed difficult Caribbean Exams (comparable to Regents Exams), exceeding other instructors; one year, 83% passed.
• Instructed grades 7 and 8 in Entrepreneurship and Business Basics, including concepts of product development, marketing (target market and niche markets), and how to run a business.
• Taught two-year curriculum of Accounting and Principles of Business to grades 10 and 11.

Master'S Degree, Early Childhood Education & Special Education

Special Education

12 Graduate Credits

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Marketing

Education record

coursework to complete NYS requirements for BA

Diploma In Technical Teacher Education, Business Studies

Activities and Societies: ● Student Teacher, High School ● Member, Kiwanis Club