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SUMMARY:
Teaching and caregiving with a wide variety of populations. Writing and curriculum
development, particularly in mathematics and science.
EMPLOYMENT
EXPERIENCE:
I am currently working as an administrative assistant at Pittsville Elementary/Middle School. My goal is to return to full-time teaching.
As a volunteer for several years, I have coordinated a program to teach English as a Second Language to immigrants.
2000-2006: Home/hospital teacher for Wicomico County Schools homebound students
1998-2004: Live-in
Counselor -Epilepsy Association. Direct
care for developmentally disabled adults in a residential setting.
1998-2000: Goals
2000 teacher - Part-time teacher at North Salisbury Elementary School.
Working with small groups of children in a viariety of subject areas.
1997-98: Classroom
teacher, Language Arts, grade 4, for Leith Walk Elementary
School in the Baltimore City school system. In the previous year I taught
third grade, all subjects.
1996: Administrative
Assistant (part time) and CSS-II (part time) for Alternative Living Incorporated
(now part of the ARC of Maryland). Alternative Living Inc. provided community
living support
for developmentally disabled individuals. As Administrative Assistant, I
assisted the Director by maintaining consumer medical and personal files,
checking medication administration records and updating the roster of consumer
addresses. As CSS-II, I oversaw staffing, budget, schedule, and program activities,
and I provided direct care for individuals at one of the ALI addresses.
1993-1995:
Math Specialist for the Maryland Science Center. 601 Light Street, Baltimore
. Description: Developing and implementing educational components of the
NSF-IBM funded math exhibit opened in June 1995.
Writing and classroom testing teachers'
manuals and activity
scripts. Managing the budget for these components. Components consisted
of Demonstration Stage activities, "Explainer" activities for on-the-floor
docents, Science Center classroom activities, pre- and post-visit classroom
mathematics activities for grades K-12. Other duties included conducting workshops
for families, teachers and pre-service teachers, and participating in the
design
process of the exhibit.
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1991-1993: Faculty
Extension Assistant for Baltimore City Cooperative
Extension Service.. Assistant Project Director for 4-H Adventure in Science,
Baltimore.
Description:
Recruiting and coordinating volunteers for Saturday morning family science
sessions. Writing parent packet materials, newsletter articles, correspondence,
promotional materials, project summaries and other office duties. Writing and supervising
implementation of a summer recreation program
curriculum. Purchasing science library and lab equipment. Served as member
of 4-H/Honda Mentorship Program national planning committee.
1987-1991:
Classroom teacher grades 3,4 for Baltimore City Elementary School #225, Westport.
Description: Chapter I School, instruction all subjects, Science
Fair coordinator, text purchasing chair, test readiness chair, lead teacher
for STARS science curriculum, workshop leader for science.
1985-1987:
Chapter I Math Teacher for Baltimore City School
#260, Chapter I Reading Teacher for Baltimore City Elementary School #225.
Description: Used alternate teaching strategies for remedial instruction
of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade students.
1983-1984:
Writer for Educational Challenges, Inc., 1009 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA.
Description: Wrote reading instruction materials for Scott, Foresman; teacher
edition copy for McGraw-Hill math series.
1981-1983:
Educational Materials Specialist for the Smithsonian
Institution Chesapeake Bay
Center for Environmental
Studies National Science Foundation funded project SAIL - Science Activities
For Informal Learning. Description: Designed, developed and wrote informal
science materials geared for early adolescent girls to learn through teaching
young children. Wrote and illustrated children's stories to accompany materials.
Field tested above materials.
1979-1981:
Math-science teacher for The
Barnesville School, Barnesville MD. Description: Instructed and designed
curriculum for Math and Science with 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
Initiated and designed courses on debate and history research.
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I Mathematics Aide for Norfolk Elementary School, Norfolk, NY. Description:
Diagnosed and instructed remedial math with 3rd, 5th and 6th grade. Designed
instructional materials. Designed and instructed mini-courses in logic and
BASIC computer language.
EDUCATION:
State
University College at Potsdam, New York Bachelor of Arts,
December 1977/cum
laud; majors in History and Education
Additional course
work in special education (18 cr.), mathematics (9 cr.), computer science,
and science education.
Most recent course
work: Spanish 101,102 at Salisbury State
Member of Maryland
Governor's Academy of Math and Science Teachers 1990.
HOBBIES AND
SKILLS RELATED TO TEACHING: I play piano, guitar and fiddle.
I am very comfortable with computers. I received a Fund for Educational Excellence
Grant in Fall 1990, for development of Tutor-tech computer programs to supplement
a school basal series.
PUBLICATIONS:
two 15-lesson
units of the Baltimore City STARS science curriculum
- In The Test Lab, and Mystery Substances
Anytime, Any
Place - a guide to family science in the Baltimore/Washington area
Nuts and Bolts
- a how-to guide for setting up an Adventure in Science Program
Beyond Numbers
Teacher manuals - classroom, bus and multicultural activities for the Beyond
Numbers exhibit at the Science Center.
Edited several NES
Arnold teacher guides
on the use of Multilinks (a manipulative of put-together blocks) in Middle
School and High School Mathematics for North American publication.
WORKSHOPS
PRESENTED FOR:
Maryland Association
of Science Teachers
Johns Hopkins
Space Grant Consortium
Maryland Governor's
Academy for Math and Science Teachers
Morgan State
College Center for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching
Maryland MESA (Math, Engineering,
Science Achievement) Precollege Career Fair
Art/Math 95 (an
international conference for artist/mathematicians )
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