Math Fellow
As a Math Fellow at the Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello, I was assigned approximately ten students per semester to coach and tutor every day. In this role, I planned and delivered lessons intended to fill missing background knowledge, while keeping students up with their algebra class. Because I worked at a turnaround school, the risk of any student dropping out was high. In an attempt to minimize this risk, I tailored lessons around students’ interests; supported them in their extracurricular activities; and kept in touch with their parents or guardians and academic advisers. In order to further maximize the effectiveness of every lesson, each lesson was tailored around each student’s testing data. In this role, I was periodically observed by my manager and trained by her to continually become a more effective instructor. Over the course of the academic year, my median student's understanding of math, as measured by standardized testing, increased by an amount that is about four times what is typically expected of a ninth grader.