Felicia Montgomery

Enthusiastic professional educator with over 18 years of leadership and communication skills that seamlessly cultivates trusting and productive relationships with students, parents, teachers and administration. Resourceful and forward-thinking educator effective at providing quality instruction while fostering a positive learning environment for all students. Flexible, adaptive and compassionate independent thinker seeking to leverage background into beginning a new challenge with successful team.

Instruction

• Retained interest and maximized receptive learning, educating over 20 students on math, reading, writing, art and music utilizing instructional techniques including child-based hands-on curriculum.
• Increased parent satisfaction through superior IEP meetings and family conferences to improve parent-child bonding skills.
• Efficiently managed day-to-day operations including developing choreography, structuring songs, creating music, setting rehearsals, orchestrating monthly/holiday performances, curriculum implementation and continuous improvement of industry best practices.
• Eliminated learning gaps and effectively instructed an average of over 10 students per semester utilizing a variety of teaching aids and motivational strategies.
• Optimized learning plans, quantifying student progress through test administration.
• In-depth knowledge of course materials, collaborating with colleagues to implement shared interactive learning media.
• Educated and instructed over 240 pre-K through first and ninth through twelfth grade students in music education.

Leadership

• Oversaw classroom management, educating and mentoring students to help improve their problem solving skills and self esteem.
• Enhanced sensory/perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition and memory development, employing educational strategies and techniques.
• Led competition training, assisting with music choreography and vocal coaching.
• Conducted the junior and senior high school choir spring festival concert.
• Earned positive feedback from parents regarding classroom instruction and student learning success.
• Initiated new learning method, ensuring total student comprehension while curbing learning time.
• Provided conflict resolutions, moderating all disputes and grievances between parties with the goal of speedy and fair resolution.
• Boosted revenue, marketing and advertising voice training, vocal development, public speaking and private singing instructional services to generate new child and adult clients.

PPR - state certification exam completed in 2007

CPR

National Association of Music Educators (NAME)

Texas Educators Association (TEA)