Collette Jacobs

Persistent leader eager to lead and grow organizations. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and communication with good understanding of business principles, project management and team leadership. Collaborative with relentless work ethic. To seek and maintain position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. 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, numeracy, social and learning skills. Caring instructor with 35 years of experience in Calculus, College Algebra/Trigonometry, Statistics, Geometry, Physics, & STEM instruction. Expert in closely monitoring student progress while implementing modern educational techniques into daily practices. Committed to long-term student success through well-rounded educations.

• Named "Teacher of the Year" at Yates Center High School through Pittsburg State University in 2018.
• Interactive Learning - Introduced, encouraged and guided students with in the national JETS/TEAMS pre-engineering at Iola High School classroom setting to increase student active participation and critical thinking.
• Employed project based learning and inquiry techniques to encourage student learning and build community within the classroom.
• Received accolades from Yates Center High School principal/community for successfully coaching 3 -State 2A Scholars' Bowl teams.
• Dynamic Teaching Techniques - Instructed students in academic subjects using variety of techniques such as kinesthetics to reinforce learning.
• Employed self initiated student/teacher workshop for instruction and collaboration techniques to encourage student learning of 3D printing and TinkerCAD design while building community within the classroom.
• Curriculum Design - Regularly redesigned, developed and implemented daily lessons for students.

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