Summary of Qualifications: Creative, resourceful teacher with 12 years of wide-ranging instructional experience. Encourage creativity and higher-order thinking skills that expand students’ knowledge-base. Possess effective, positive, and flexible teaching style. Highly passionate, hardworking educator, with a keen focus on coaching math, English, reading comprehension, presentation skills, and basic writing fundamentals.

• Coach international and non-international students with educational preparedness.• Facilitate weekly workshop training for students needing resume, interviewing and presentation training.• Identified and managed a steady pipeline of employment opportunities for student placement.• Provide ongoing remedial writing and math workshops for international and U.S. students. • Work with Director of Education, ESL and Lab Instructors in developing training programs.• Work with business leaders in placing graduating students in externship and full-time jobs.• Developed Individual Education Plans (IEP) for slower learners.

• Coached participants in identifying barriers to self-sufficiency and work to address these goals, provided support, advocacy and career planning.• Trained adult participants in workplace skills, including résumé preparation and interviewing techniques.• Inputted and tracked all participants’ progress in the Effort to Outcome (ETO) database systems.• Performed other duties as requested by Program Coordinator and management team.

• Assisted instructors with team coaching, lesson development, and classroom instructional activities. Conducted student interviews, and developed a student needs assessment to determine educational needs.Taught reading, writing, mathematics, and language arts to more than 300 students/adult learners annually. Prepared instructional materials to correlate with the students’ educational needs and intellectual abilities.• Administered assessment and recorded test scores to document individual student’s academic progress.Conducted orientation, registration, and testing sessions for GED students ages 16 and above ranging from low-level to high level students.• Trained adult participants in workplace skills, including résumé preparation and interviewing techniques. Determined and verified income eligibility for TANF clients in accordance with federal and county guidelines.

• Developed and coordinated implementation of curriculum and training workshops.• Planned and organized teacher training conferences, as well as observed and evaluated teachers.• Analyzed student test data and worked closely with program administrator in students’ gains.• Assessed and discussed implementation of education standards with program staff.• Reviewed and recommended textbooks and other educational materials to increase meet students’ and program needs. Recommend teaching techniques and the use of different or new technologies. • Developed procedures for teachers to implement curriculum, and trained teachers and other instructional staff in new content or programs.