Ada Fung

Inspiring Professor brings advanced teaching skills and department leadership experience. Goal-oriented to advance department, improve teaching and modernize courses. Extensive background in research and university fundraising. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

• 2012, Present, SDC Teacher, Fontana Unified School District, Revised math lessons, recruited support, and educated parents to support learning math so that students’ MAP scores were the top four classrooms on-site that met goals midyear., Enriched students’ learning environments by incorporating short history, art, and science lessons into original curriculums to better address social justice and prepare students., Redesigned science and social science curriculums to address the different grade level common core needs and individual student’s learning needs., Implemented applied behavior analysis strategies, increasing students’ ability to initiate tasks independently and implement self-management.
• 2004, 2012, Special Education Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District, Advocate and Educate parents’ rights and support students with special needs, especially the black and Latino/a/x students and their families., Redesigned district curriculum to address the three grade levels of students and their individual academic needs., Reinvented lessons by incorporating current affairs and cultures worldwide as subjects to bring students to par with their peers from other schools., Introduced “circle time’ that increased students’ communication skills, confidence, and ability to engage in conversation with each other.