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Carmen Saldana

Fort Worth,TX

Summary

Accomplished, value-driven, mission-oriented professional with experience providing internal employee development, team effectiveness and leadership development consulting to all levels of an organization; adaptable leader with the ability to work independently and maintain critical thinking skills in the face of unforeseen challenges with a strong work ethic, and positive attitude. Organized Teaching Assistant focused on helping lead teacher with support and student instruction. Passionate about positively impacting students' lives and helping improve academic performance. Personable and kind with people of diverse backgrounds.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

TA – Teacher Assistant

Uplift Mighty High School
02.2024 - Current
  • Reinforcing lessons by tutoring individual students or small groups
  • Creating and implementing lesson plans
  • Documenting progress
  • Overseeing lesson preparations
  • Reviewing material with students one-on-one or in small groups
  • Reinforcing/Assisting Lift Program
  • SEL
  • Student Character development

Permanent Substitute

Uplift Mighty High School
02.2024 - Current
  • Effectively teach the adopted curriculum, the Uplift curriculum, and the International Baccalaureate components
  • Upholds all school policies
  • Executes specific lesson plans prepared by the campus to create a rigorous and engaging learning environment with the willingness to seek out teaching team support to provide lesson plans as needed and/or provide pre-determined educational fill-in activities as needed
  • Sets clear goals to drive instruction
  • Maintains a productive, safe, and focused learning environment
  • Ability to exhibit classroom management and behavior management strategies
  • Ability to execute and model non-physical de-escalation techniques when dealing with high-level behaviors
  • Creates and provides meaningful and frequent assessments in a timely manner, utilizing the daily planning time to do so
  • Provides specified accommodations and modifications for growth and success of all students
  • Goes above and beyond to ensure all students are meeting specified standards
  • Keeps teacher and administrator well-informed about scholars' progress and provides feedback in accordance with campus guidelines
  • Take accurate daily attendance in accordance with attendance program
  • Maintains and supports a positive professional school culture
  • Models employee behavior within the Code of Conduct as outlined in the Uplift Employee Handbook
  • Understands that there must be no harsh, cruel or unusual treatment of any scholar, including inappropriate physical and verbal responses
  • Supports and follows directives of campus administrators
  • Understands specific communication protocol for behavioral issues
  • Works with grade level to address and resolve student issues
  • Understands and follows all school safety protocols and procedures
  • Other duties as assigned

Substitute Teacher

Kelly Services
05.2022 - 02.2024
  • Implement and instruct core subjects to all grade levels in various schools
  • Create and integrate lesson plans in the teacher's absence, successfully completed transition where teacher ended
  • Identify instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting lesson objectives
  • Successfully manage all grade levels K-12 in providing a core base learning environment

Assembler

Caterpillar
08.2022 - 03.2023
  • Performed material handling functions in the receiving process including storing, moving, packing, and shipping of parts, materials, equipment, and supplies
  • Performed related and/or specialized clerical duties and resolves discrepancies as required
  • Performed and conduct inventory counts of machines and work tools on a bi-monthly basis
  • Performed the functions necessary to reconcile all inventory grief including on-hand overages, supplier discrepancies, operations return grief, receipt grief, shipment errors and posting tags

Customer Service Representative

Walmart Call Center
07.2020 - 08.2022
  • Answered incoming calls related to customer inquiries by utilizing information learned during training and leveraging resources available through people, customer records, and knowledge management systems
  • Processed required transactions via mainframe or web-based applications
  • Accurately and concisely, documented customer interactions and transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, and comments, as well as actions taken

Office Manager

WEALTHLUXE Credit Solutions
03.2018 - 05.2022
  • Created action plans for improving company processes or creating new ones, such as improving customer service or increasing efficiency
  • Worked with management to create budgets for departments or projects, and monitoring spending to ensure it stays within budget limits
  • Coordinated office activities such as arranging meetings, planning events, and ordering supplies
  • Maintained employee records such as hiring records, performance reviews, and disciplinary actions
  • Maintained office staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees
  • Maintained office staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees, and planning, monitoring, and appraising job results

Home Based Educator

HIPPY – Arkansas Home Visiting Network
08.2016 - 08.2019
  • Scheduled and conducted weekly home visits with parents and children in their homes
  • Planned and developed with parents an individualized program using weekly educational activity plans based on their child's assessment and identified family’s strengths and needs
  • Fostered the view and practice in parents that they are their child’s first and most important teacher and assists families in keeping an on-going file of weekly home visit plans and follow up activities
  • Empowered families by developing a Family Partnership Agreement based on identified strengths and needs
  • Documented on a timely basis all home visits, family contacts, consultations, and follow-ups
  • Documented full time referrals for mental health students
  • Set up lessons including activities focusing on literacy, math, science, motor skills, and language development
  • Behavior intervention

Skills

  • Customer service standards
  • Internet proficiency
  • Windows-based PC skills
  • MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Word)
  • Organizational skills
  • Conflict management skills
  • Scheduling
  • Customer engagement
  • Confidential information handling
  • Adaptability
  • Resilience
  • Analytic thinking
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring
  • Team development
  • Ongoing support
  • Progress Monitoring
  • Study Skills Development
  • Student and parent relations
  • Assignment Grading
  • Behavior Management
  • Student Supervision
  • Test Proctoring
  • Classroom support
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Behavior redirection
  • CPR and First Aid
  • Preparing Instructional Materials
  • Multicultural Awareness
  • Small Group and Individual Assistance
  • Reading and Writing Support
  • Relationship Building
  • Teacher Support and Collaboration
  • Bilingual in English and Spanish
  • Curriculum Implementation

Timeline

TA – Teacher Assistant

Uplift Mighty High School
02.2024 - Current

Permanent Substitute

Uplift Mighty High School
02.2024 - Current

Assembler

Caterpillar
08.2022 - 03.2023

Substitute Teacher

Kelly Services
05.2022 - 02.2024

Customer Service Representative

Walmart Call Center
07.2020 - 08.2022

Office Manager

WEALTHLUXE Credit Solutions
03.2018 - 05.2022

Home Based Educator

HIPPY – Arkansas Home Visiting Network
08.2016 - 08.2019

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