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Jamie Thomas

Fort Mill,South Carolina

Summary

I am a self-motivated, goal-driven professional with a commitment to putting students first every day. Through research-driven advanced strategies I use these skills to be a catalyst for change by implementing inquiry-based, student-driven instruction and encouraging students to set achievable goals that support life-long learning. With a multi-disciplinary background in teaching, the humanities, community development, business, technology and leadership I enjoy extending the classroom beyond the walls and facilitating students to enhance and apply their learning using real-world scenarios and/or experiences.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

GT Teacher

Springfield Elementary
08.2022 - Current
  • Build a unique classroom community that makes students feel like they are a part of a family.
  • Student-driven instructional model.
  • Incorporate all student backgrounds facilitating the development of their unique gifts and talents.
  • Hold students to their high level of learning while differentiating so that all students achieve their individual learning goals.
  • Teach empathy through curriculum integration strategies.
  • Accommodate the needs of instructing standards
    with flexibility in aspects such as pace, depth, complexity, and novelty.
  • Develop engaging lesson plans, incorporating diverse activities and materials to foster intellectual growth through individual and small-group instruction unique to gifted learners.
  • Employ a wide range of advanced instructional techniques, strategies, and media to effectively meet the diverse capabilities and learning styles of gifted students while staying current in best practices.
  • Facilitate problem-based learning initiatives to cultivate critical thinking and real-world application skills. (March Madness, Fantasy Football, Podcasting, and Passion Project Fair).
  • Uses data consistently to adjust instruction.
  • Highly reflective teacher adapting to student learning.
  • Leads a GT vertical PLT for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade gifted educators quarterly.
  • Leads a grade specific (and across grade levels) GT ELA PLT to align standards with gifted curriculum and assessment.
  • Leads assessment alignment with 3rd - 5th grade gifted teachers to ensure vertical framework is implemented across gifted instruction.
  • Serves as the primary district resource expert in gifted education, advising other gifted educators on best practices.
  • Fosters strong communication channels with students, parents, classroom teachers, and administrators through regular conferences and updates, ensuring alignment on student progress and program goals.
  • Initiated and lead in collaboration with all gifted educators a gifted "on-boarding" for parents who are new to students being in GT providing resources, question and answer and community development.
  • Cultivated positive parent relationships through parent involvement, student publishing opportunities, and celebration of student accomplishments.
  • Monitored and documented student progress effectively.
  • Demonstrated a strong commitment to continuous professional growth by actively participating in professional organizations, applying current research and literature, and attending staff meetings, local training, and in and out of state conferences.
  • District STEAM Leader (3 Years)
  • Grade level chair (3years)- Leading a team of 6 other teachers and collaborating with other G.T. teachers within the grade level.
  • Lead GT teacher for 7 GT teachers across multiple grade levels (3 years).
  • Expert in ADHD and Neurodiverse students.

5th Grade GT Teacher

Springfield Elementary School, Fort Mill School District
08.2020 - 05.2022
  • Develops program objectives, enrichment units and process curricula for gifted program
  • Develops lesson plans, including activities and material, and implements objectives through individual and small group activities
  • Serves as a resource person for enrichment activities within the grade-level.
  • Creating a learning environment that is caring, encouraging, a motivator for engagement, and a place where students feel valued.
  • Engaging students in differentiated instruction through discussions, small groups, direct instruction and guided instructional tools.
  • Ability to quickly modify and adjust instruction to meet student needs.
  • Effectively evaluate standardized test scores and implement a plan to increase student growth in specific content areas.
  • Motivate students through positive classroom management strategies that consider a student's background, learning style, social and emotional needs.
  • Inquiry-based instructional strategies to engage in student curiosity and critical thinking through facilitating higher level questioning and student-driven discussion.
  • Developing hands-on lessons incorporating small groups, technology, and real-world application.
  • Collaborate with colleagues in professional learning communities to develop and implement grade-wide instructional resources and meet the needs of ALL students.
  • Develop, write and implement short and long-range plans for five subjects.
  • Extensive experience with gifted curriculum (William and Mary, Jacob's Ladder, Hand on Equations, M3, Junior Great Books).
  • Experience with cross curricular planning to enhance instructional content.
  • Presenting valuable solutions when instructional adjustments need to be made
  • Ability to instruct a culturally diverse group of students while being mindful of student background and needs during planning.
  • STEAM Committee member
  • Student Leadership committee member

STUDENT TEACHER

Springfield Elementary School, Fort Mill School District
01.2018 - 05.2018
  • Co-Taught 3rd Grade with Ashlee Threatt, Creating a learning environment that is caring, encouraging, a motivator for engagement, and a place where students feel valued
  • Created and implemented a 15-day STEAM based Fractions Unit
  • Implementation and creatively integrating STEAM into the Lucy Caulkins
  • Effectively evaluate standardized test scores and implement a plan to increase student growth in specific content areas
  • Inquiry-based instructional strategies to engage in student curiosity and critical thinking through facilitating higher level questioning and student- driven discussion
  • Presenting valuable solutions when instructional adjustments need to be made advocating for various learning needs in the classroom
  • Field experience hours in project-based learning school
  • Field experience hours training in instructional strategies with an ESL specialist
  • Training and instructional hours with a district STEAM leader
  • Over 300 logged field experience hours in core subjects.

Substitute Teacher

Fort Mill School District
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Over 3,000 logged classroom hours
  • Facilitating effective discipline and classroom management practices
  • Communicates in various situations with students, administrators and colleagues
  • Adaptable to a variety of schools, grade levels and classroom environments.

ENTREPRENEUR – NATIONWIDE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

Behind the Scenes Solutions
01.2007 - 01.2017
  • Trained in 21st century software and applications that implement and support STEAM initiatives
  • Providing virtual, technological, and problem-solving strategies to businesses enhancing communication and efficiency.
  • Implementation of coding, website development, training and building various applications into businesses for efficiency
  • Self-Motivated
  • Coding Language Professional

Assistant Director

Springfield Neighborhood, East West Partners Club Management
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • Spearheaded the creation and launch of a comprehensive program for elementary and middle school students.
  • Wrote, developed and implemented Elementary and Middle School after-school and weekend programs.

Educator

Providence Day and Country Day School
01.2005 - 01.2007
  • Developed, wrote and implemented elementary and middle school curriculum in an independent setting.

FAMILIES COORDINATOR

Forest Hill Church/South Park Campus
01.2004 - 01.2005
  • Co-Developed elementary and middle school curriculum
  • Pioneered, wrote and developed a college leadership/internship program.

Education

Ph.D. - Psychology - Cognition And Instruction

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ
05-2027

M.Ed. - Elementary Education - Advanced Teaching Methods

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ
05-2018

MASTER OF ARTS - Leadership/Development

Gordon-Conwell
Charlotte, NC
01.2004

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Adolescent Psychology

Montreat College
Montreat, NC
01.2001

Skills

  • Google Level 1 & 2 Certified
  • STEAM Integration/Problem-Based Learning Trained
  • Relationship Building
  • Social and Emotional Learning Facilitator
  • Self-Motivated

Certification

  • Elementary Teaching
  • Gifted and Talented Endorsement
  • Gifted and Talented Certification (Pending)
  • Read to Succeed Endorsement

Timeline

GT Teacher

Springfield Elementary
08.2022 - Current

5th Grade GT Teacher

Springfield Elementary School, Fort Mill School District
08.2020 - 05.2022

STUDENT TEACHER

Springfield Elementary School, Fort Mill School District
01.2018 - 05.2018

Substitute Teacher

Fort Mill School District
01.2015 - 01.2018

ENTREPRENEUR – NATIONWIDE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

Behind the Scenes Solutions
01.2007 - 01.2017

Assistant Director

Springfield Neighborhood, East West Partners Club Management
01.2007 - 01.2008

Educator

Providence Day and Country Day School
01.2005 - 01.2007

FAMILIES COORDINATOR

Forest Hill Church/South Park Campus
01.2004 - 01.2005

Ph.D. - Psychology - Cognition And Instruction

Grand Canyon University

M.Ed. - Elementary Education - Advanced Teaching Methods

Grand Canyon University

MASTER OF ARTS - Leadership/Development

Gordon-Conwell

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Adolescent Psychology

Montreat College

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