Experience

WAYNESVILLE R-VI SCHOOL DISTRICT

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Studies Instructor

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  As a social studies instructor for the Waynesville R-VI School District, I work diligently each day to support the successful academic, social, and personal growth of young adolescents. In addition to teaching geographic, cultural, economic, and governmental concepts through world geography, I mentor students in class, during additional academic assistance hours, and during advisory times to encourage and support their development as leaders, citizens, and community members. My teaching adapts to the wide behavioral, cognitive, and emotional needs of my students as well as the diverse backgrounds that they bring into the classroom community. I bring my enthusiasm and drive to collaborative efforts in my role as a department team member and grade level team teacher to support students, improve our department teaching practices, and address a wide variety of topics in our curriculum and student body. I ask questions, seek research-based resources, and routinely seek new opportunities to grow my teaching practices both as an individual and team member.



Barat Academy

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Studies Instructor and Administrative Assistant to the Student Office

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  In my role as a Social Studies Instructor, I teach a Contemporary Global Issues course for high school seniors. The course is designed around the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals that also serve as the foundation for the senior service-learning capstone projects, called Peace Projects. In addition to mentoring Peace Project groups and guiding students through the completion of various Peace Project components designated in the social studies curriculum, I strive to make a course that is flexible to the changing events of the world while also focusing on major concepts and widely-applicable skills. My work as the Administrative Assistant to the Student Office includes a variety of tasks, including maintaining accurate attendance records, communicating information that is accurate and up-to-date to students and their families, greeting and assisting visitors to the school, and assisting administrators with various projects and tasks.



Webster Groves High School

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Intern

  • Jan 2019 - May 2019

  As a teaching intern, I worked alongside a veteran teacher in the classroom. I assumed the role of the classroom teacher, handling all lesson planning, grading, assessment design and administration, and day-to-day routines. Most importantly, I built strong relationships with students in class as well as supporting them in their sports, musical endeavors, and other activities. In addition to the teaching responsibilities of my internship, I completed an action research project (required as part of my Master's coursework) that aimed to identify if keyword phrases or sentence starters helped students achieve a higher level of task completion success on term identification tasks.


Kirksville R-III School District
• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Substitute Teacher

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2018


Education Deptartment at Truman State Univeristy

• Graduate Student Worker, Peer Mentor Coordinator

  • Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

  As a Graduate Student Worker and Peer Mentor Coordinator, I was responsible for overseeing the department's Peer Mentor Program. I worked with a team of upperclassmen to organize office hours and multiple means of communicating with students expressing an interest in education who were new to campus. Additionally, I was responsible for coordinating efforts to reach out to prospective students visiting campus individually and during our showcase events. I was responsible for organizing student volunteers to help with the showcase events and for bringing decorations, informative materials, and various supplies to create an appealing table display for the Education Department and the Master of Arts in Education program at showcase events. My duties also included assisting faculty members with department events and projects, such as coordinating with a guest speaker for Constitution Day and helping organize a trauma-informed instruction training session for Truman Education students and local teachers. Finally, this position also involved managing the Education Department's Facebook page, creating social media posts and Facebook events.



The Apprentice Historian, Phi Alpha Theta-Nu Chi Chapter

• Managing Editor

  • Sep 2016 - May 2018

  As managing editor, I organized teams of student editors to select student submissions to include in our journal, to edit and proof the selections, and to communicate with student authors throughout the editing process. All selections were edited to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, and my responsibilities also included meeting with the Chief Editor of the Truman State University Press to establish professional publishing procedures for the journal to follow. In this position, I regularly used the following computer programs: Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign