• Designing and coordinating school assemblies • Coaching teams and clubs
• Delivering lessons each day are a good example of ability to make complex material engaging, understandable and persuasive to a general audience • Writing tailored to different audiences: emails to parents, administration and support staff; individualized feedback to students; lesson plans and class materials revised for different skill levels • Workshops for P.D. sessions on Technology and Curriculum Change for Computer Studies • Presentations for both students and colleagues
• Course/unit design • Assessing and evaluating learning skills, knowledge and understanding, thinking ability, communication and application of knowledge and skills using a variety of tools, including 1,000 to 2,000 quizzes, tests and assignments as well as providing ongoing feedback to students in six classes of 15-30 students annually
• Working with in-class support workers, collaborating with teachers in and out of department on school wide and departmental initiatives (eg. Curriculum development, learning styles) • Experience in varied environments eg. both urban (Brampton) and rural (South Porcupine) districts, full time classroom and occasional teaching, academic, remedial and special needs classes, and teaching in a foreign country • Relationship management working with students of varying needs and abilities
• Changing lessons that are not successful both after completion of the lesson and "on the fly" when evaluating students in class
• Preparing 2-3 lessons daily • Providing progress reports and summative evaluations for students on a monthly basis • Prioritizing work based on need and time constraints
• Developing and implementing strategies for keeping students calm, alert and focused, motivating them, and setting targets and goals in order to encourage them to self-regulate • Team building and contributing, through leading, teaching, motivating and/or encouraging others, to the success of the team • Ability to oversee, supervise and/or contribute to a project from beginning to end including determining outcomes, planning details, making decisions, assigning roles and completing task • Mentorship of teacher candidates as an associate teacher • Group management
• Identifying and accessing a wide range of relevant information and resources • Ability to compile and organize facts and information and to comprehend and apply new and/or unfamiliar information to different situations and settings
