Teaching Experience
West Allegheny Elementary School - West Allegheny, PA 8/2013 – 6/2014
Design and present exciting lessons that actively engage learners, while educating on proper artistic methodologies and various technical aspects. Provide students with opportunities to reach their fullest potentials through creative expression, cognitive strategies, and broad range of aesthetic, historical, critical, and production experiences. Offer extracurricular tutoring to ensure each student is able to understand the material.
• Initiated an after school health Club to provide students with additional opportunities to further their athletic capabilities and discover new mediums.
• Developed and implemented various thematic lesson plans utilizing age-appropriate material and focusing on relevant topics including diets, exercises, and general well being.
• Successfully achieved student participation by utilizing creativity and incorporating a “real life” connection into the classrooms in order to gain and maintain students’ interest and encourage self-expression.
• Prompted student motivation, participation, and effective listening skills through the implementation of positive reinforcement and weekly rewards.
• Positively impacted classroom activities by utilizing overhead projectors, computers, movies, outside speakers, and puzzles gearing lessons both visually and conceptually.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Mt. Davis Area Senior High, Acme PA, 2008, GPA 3.5
Bachelor Of Arts In Health & Physical Education
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock PA, 2012, GPA 3.7
State of Pennsylvania Teaching Credential, k-6
