Camilla Barry

Highly qualified Science Teacher with over 30 years of experience teaching PreK - middle school, plus teacher training for teachers Prek- University. Generates student enthusiasm for learning through individual connections and motivators. Empowers students through interactive learning, offering fun and educational lessons and exciting science demonstrations.

Demonstrates scientific concepts by using apparatus, experiments, charts, sketches and other instructional aids. Develops lesson plans by incorporating effective lesson design and instructs pupils in proper use, care and safe handling of chemicals, science equipment and plant and animal life. Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior to provide orderly, productive environment during instructional activities and support educational mission.

Dedicated Science Teacher with 30+ years of experience teaching general science, earth science, physics, Plans and delivers science program that includes demonstrations, lectures, discussion and student experiments to develop language, logic and problem-solving skills in classroom. Uses variety of research-based instructional practices and current resources to support instructional goals and student needs, such as state and STEM standards.

Decades of experience providing educational guidance and mentorship to beginning and experienced teachers. Eager to parlay teaching expertise to new position.

Wrote the first hands-on science textbook for Afghanistan, commissioned by the Afghan Teacher Education Department. The book Science Without A Laboratory was translated into Dari and Pashto; and provided hands-on lessons to accompany the newly established Afghan Science Education Standards.




Gave a TED talk about my experiences teacher-training in Afghanistan.




Led the first science teacher training ever given in Ghazni province and Bamiyan province.




While teaching at Park Elementary, their students scored higher on science aptitude tests than any other school in Marin County.




Granted a patent on a protractor (the Barry Visual Protractor) and oversaw its manufacture.

National Speleological Society

PADI scuba certifications (many are science-related)

American Canoe Association (many courses in river science)

American Whitewater Association (see above)

American Recorder Society (lots of music science)

Past:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

California Science Teachers Association

California Mathematics Council

Marin Beekeeper Society

Girl Scouts of America (troop leader and science specialist)

Boy Scouts of America (troop leader and science specialist)

Classrooms Across Cultures: 2003- 2013, I was director and founder of this nonprofit, through which I taught science and trained teachers in Afghanistan. It was an unpaid, volunteer position. I traveled 13 times to Afghanistan for 4-6 weeks each to teach or train. I lived in with local families and exchanged cultural information and friendship with Afghan colleagues and people I met. This experience is described more fully in my work history. I also gave a TED talk about my work. The link for the TED talk is in the "links" section.

Prior Volunteer Experience:

Girl Scout Troop Leader for both Brownies and Cadets

Tiger Cub (BSA) troop leader

Leader and Director of two different weeklong service trips to the Hoopa Indian reservation in Northern California. These trips were sponsored by my church, but were not religious in nature. Rather, I organized other volunteers to do service work such as painting houses, plumbing repairs, medical clinics, and vacation classes for children. We lived on the reservation. Hoopa Elders taught us Native American life ways, shared their history and historic lodging, We took part in a drum circle led by a native elder.

Leader and Director of a week-long service trip to the H'Mong community in Fresno. This trip was sponsored by my church but was not religious in nature. Our volunteers lived in H'Mong community housing. Our goal was to help first-generation H'Mong families become familiar with life in America, through activities and classes aimed at children of recently arrived families. We also exchanged much cultural information, learning from the H'Mong about their culture.

2011: Science Fair: I organized the first successful and well-attended science fair in a majority Latino elementary school in Esparto, CA