Barbara Leighton

• Provide data driven instruction for English III and English IV classes in literary analysis, composition, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Facilitate ACT prep instruction using the MasteryPrep curriculum.
• Participate in professional learning teams to create and implement curriculum suitable to appropriate grade level and team goals.
• Modified lessons and curriculum to accommodate diverse learners by using strategies such as peer-assisted learning and group work.
• Worked with staff members and teachers to design a comprehensive and individualized growth mindset curriculum.

• Provide instruction for English 1 classes in literary analysis, composition, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Created differentiation strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners within the same classroom.
• Participate in professional learning teams to create and implement curriculum suitable to appropriate grade level and team goals.

• Provide instruction for 10th grade World Literature, 11th grade American Literature, and 12th grade British Literature classes in literary analysis, composition, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Design and implement collaborative teaching environment for inclusion classes.
• Utilize differentiation strategies to meet the needs of learners with different skill levels (college preparatory, honors, and inclusion classes) and diverse social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds within the same classroom.

• Facilitate research writing class in an online environment. Implemented curriculum that guided the student through the research writing process to produce a polished final draft. Courses taught: Research Writing and Effective Essay Writing.
• Observed and adopted new techniques from skilled instructors and lecturers.
• Tested and evaluated students on materials presented in workshops and classes.

Evaluate students' essays, provide feedback on their writing and answer questions in the TA forum with the intent of building students' confidence in their writing abilities. This position required content knowledge of various aspects of English/Language Arts courses. Courses: English Composition I and II; Introduction to Literature; Personal Dimensions of Education; Adult Development and Life Assessment.

• Writing instructor for adult cohort.
• Created and implemented certain aspects of a curriculum that guided the student through the writing process, including grammar instruction, to produce polished written work. Courses taught: Fundamentals of Quality Writing; American Literature; U.S. Business Culture: Novel and Film.