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Teacher

Lemma Barazi

Teacher
San Mateo,CA

Summary

Passionate teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of topics in Social Studies. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, historical critical thinking skills, and social and learning skills.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language

Work History

After School Academic Program

Portola Valley School District
Portola Vally, California
11.2021 - Current

Plan and implement the Language Circle Writing Curriculum weekly to students who required additional support in sentence structure and paragraph writing.

Teacher

Portola Valley School District
Portola Valley , California
08.2020 - Current
  • Communicated frequently with parents, students and faculty to provide feedback and discuss instructional strategies.
  • Planned and implemented integrated lessons to meet state standards.
  • Reviewed curriculum and devised supplemental resources to presenting lessons to increase student understanding.
  • Developed lessons that centered around historical critical thinking skills that supported students in and outside of the classroom.
  • Enhanced student knowledge of technology by integrating various web-based applications for research and assignments during distance and in-person learning.
  • Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
  • Developed and implemented lesson plans that addressed general students as well as those with individualized 504 and IEP plans as part of integrated classroom.

Student Teacher

George Washington High School
San Francisco, CA
01.2020 - 06.2020
  • Taught 10th grade Modern World History and 11th grade
  • United States History, Created representative and challenging lessons that align with standards to empower students
  • Conferred with cooperating teachers to establish instructional targets and prepared original differentiated lessons
  • Collaborated with various teachers to create equitable weekly modules during distance learning.

Student Teacher

Marina Middle School
San Francisco, CA
01.2019 - 06.2019
  • Over 160 hours of observation and classroom support at Marina
  • Middle School and George Washington High School
  • Kept students on-task with proactive behavior modifications and positive reinforcement strategies.

Classroom Support

Gateway High School
San Francisco, CA
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • Supported a 10th grade Humanities class which focused on modern genocides one quarter and Shakespeare's Macbeth the next quarter
  • Assisted classroom teacher with classroom management, instruction, individualized instructions, and group work
  • Supported student learning objectives through personalized and small group assistance.

Education

Master of Arts - Education

San Francisco State University
01.2021 - 06.2023

Teaching Credential - Social Science

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
01.2019 - 06.2020

Bachelor of Arts - History, European Studies

San Francisco State University
05.2015 - 05.2017

Associate of - History

Santa Monica College
01.2012 - 05.2015

Ex Post - undefined

PUBLICATIONS

Skills

    Classroom management

Student-centered learning

Inquiry-based learning

Curriculum development

Differentiated instruction

Restorative-justice practices

Collaborator

Distance teaching

Assessment development

Timeline

After School Academic Program

Portola Valley School District
11.2021 - Current

Master of Arts - Education

San Francisco State University
01.2021 - 06.2023

Teacher

Portola Valley School District
08.2020 - Current

Student Teacher

George Washington High School
01.2020 - 06.2020

Teaching Credential - Social Science

San Francisco State University
01.2019 - 06.2020

Student Teacher

Marina Middle School
01.2019 - 06.2019

Classroom Support

Gateway High School
01.2018 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Arts - History, European Studies

San Francisco State University
05.2015 - 05.2017

Associate of - History

Santa Monica College
01.2012 - 05.2015

Ex Post - undefined

PUBLICATIONS
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