Tessa Packer Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Reviewed applications and interviewed adopters, matching the assets they could bring to pet ownership with specific pets, leading me to facilitate over 1,500 adoptions and have the highest number of adoptions and the.
• Initiated a protocol for assessing cat personality that led to a significant increase in the adoption rate of adult cats.
• Assessed and offered potential opportunities to adopters for support financially, behaviorally, or medically.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Redesigned Circle of Peace International’s Pen Pal Program
• Recruited classes from around the world to participate in the program
• Encouraged conversations between students by effectively assigning each individual student to another based off of age, interests, and English proficiency
• Assisted in cultural exchange between students by developing writing prompts and lesson plans for all participating classes

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Developed content for Instagram and Facebook and managed accounts
• Designed criteria for promotional posts and analyzed outcomes for efficacy
• Encouraged donations of specific items needed, and financial contributions
• Assisted in planning fundraising events, including what to sell and where

Koh Samui, Thailand

• Monitored the school website by answering questions and ensuring appropriate topics of discussion.
• Took photographs and posted regularly to ensure a maintained presence across social media platforms.

Koh Samui, Thailand

• Created a classroom environment that suited the needs of up to 50 culturally and linguistically diverse students.
• Created personalized lesson plans for 6 subjects and ESL with short and long-term goals as needed to promote individual understanding, leading to a 100% passing rate, which was the highest in all of the Primary School.
• Developed and implemented assessment measurements to track students' progress, and wrote reports for 35 students bi-annually.
• Designed and executed objective driven lesson plans for English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies following Cambridge Curriculum.
• Planned educationally relevant field trips each semester with full itineraries.
• Provided private tutoring for students of all grade levels to increase their proficiency of the English language and facilitate their understanding of all school subjects.

Newport News, VA

• Administered tests and collected data on paranormal beliefs and religiosity
• Utilized research databases to review relevant psychological literature
• Researched and analyzed the empirical link between intolerance of uncertainty and paranormal beliefs