Experience

Ball-Chatham School District
• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Instructor at Glenwood High School

  • Aug 1999 - Present


University of Illinois Springfield

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Instructor

  • Aug 2007 - Dec 2010

  Adjunct Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages for both elementary and intermediate levels of Spanish. Helped to choose the required textbook, designed course syllabus, prepared lessons, developed student assessments and used assessments to monitor student growth and to make adjustments to teaching in accordance with desired student learning outcomes. Was also chosen by fellow peers as the adjuncts' representative in the development of the Spanish minor. Adjunct Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages for both elementary and intermediate levels of Spanish. Helped to choose the required textbook, designed course syllabus, prepared lessons, developed student assessments and used assessments to monitor student growth and to make adjustments to teaching in accordance with desired student learning outcomes. Was also chosen by fellow peers as the adjuncts' representative in the development of the Spanish minor.



Benedictine University at Springfield

• United States
• Individual and Family Services

• Adjunct Instructor

  • Jun 2002 - Aug 2008

  I worked every summer from 2002 to 2008 as an adjunct instructor for what was first Springfield College in Illinois and then Benedictine University at Springfield. I taught four courses each summer - Elementary Spanish I and II and Intermediate Spanish I and II. Each course was an accelerated five week course and students had the opportunity to take two such courses consecutively. I had complete autonomy in the selection of the textbook, the course syllabus, the design of lessons, and student assessments.



Illinois State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Course Instructor

  • Aug 2006 - May 2007

  Was selected to teach two courses of elementary Spanish as my graduate assistantship during graduate school. I prepared lessons autonomously, worked in a team to develop student assessments, and used those assessments to monitor student growth and to make adjustments to teaching in accordance with desired student learning outcomes. I was also chosen by the full-time Spanish faculty to win the Montserrat Vilarrubla Teaching Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student. Was selected to teach two courses of elementary Spanish as my graduate assistantship during graduate school. I prepared lessons autonomously, worked in a team to develop student assessments, and used those assessments to monitor student growth and to make adjustments to teaching in accordance with desired student learning outcomes. I was also chosen by the full-time Spanish faculty to win the Montserrat Vilarrubla Teaching Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student.