James Donaldson

• Delivery of daily high-quality STEM enrichment for students at Frazer School in the Syracuse City School
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• Create and implement STEM lesson plans with hands on activities
• Provide feedback on lesson materials aligned with Common Core Standards for K-5 STEM
• Participate in trainings, professional development opportunities and school team meetings as well as student evaluation reports.

• Effectively communicate and coordinate with the instructor in order to assist in daily lesson plans
• Id in preparing materials to be used for projects including art and science
• Rovide individual assistance to children in small groups to ensure an understanding of concepts
• Trictly adhere to the school's rules and policies
• Nsure the safety of the students within the classroom, on field trips and throughout the campus
• Ssist teaching in reviewing, grading and recording homework and tests
• Aintain, observe and assess each student's progress through assessments and be aware of students who need more one-on-one guidance
• Rovide additional assistance to students who have special needs

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• Worked with teachers to design lesson plans and coordinate activities for classes, consistently noting successful ideas and identifying areas for improvement.
• Took over class for regular classroom teacher, managing assignments, student needs and recordkeeping.
• Kept students on-task with proactive behavior modification and positive reinforcement strategies.
• Attended to classroom details and logistics to maintain strong instructional environment.
• Supported teacher in instructing core subjects, delivering supplementary lessons and coordinating materials.
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.

• Promote the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of Head Start children, maintained a safe environment for children, nurtured a supportive learning environment that was often used as a model for other classrooms, development of lesson plans on a weekly basis that consists of activities designed to meet the needs of all children, provide a supportive environment in which children can begin to learn and practice appropriate and acceptable behaviors as individuals and as a group, support each child's culture within the classroom, implement individualizations on a daily basis through large and small-group instruction, complete child assessments in a timely manner-three times per year, conduct individual child observations on a regular basis, conducted in-home visits to maintain student and family relationships and student performance standards, established daily routines that were easy for the children to follow, reliable observer under Teaching Strategies GOLD, maintain professional development trainings throughout the year.

• As the Receptionist duties included a multiple line phone system, scheduling of patients, posting patient charges and payments in Softdent, interaction with insurance companies regarding payments and authorizations.

• Duties included daily interactions with patients, scheduling for two therapist and two offices, accounts payable and receivable, posting of daily patient charges, and negotiate insurance contracts.
• Created and managed electronic patient records, encompassing data entry and administrative functions related to insurance, billing and accounts receivable.
• Addressed and remedied all patient or team member issues.
• Gathered forms and copied insurance cards to collect patient information for billing and insurance filing.
• Received, recorded and filed medical payments by check, cash and credit card.
• Contacted patients regarding unpaid and underpaid accounts to resolve issues.
• Improved timely payment of bills by developing flexible payment plans for patients.
• Scheduled patient appointments in respective doctors' calendars and followed up with reminder phone calls.
• Coordinated referrals through insurance and other medical specialists and documented details in patient charts.
• Carried out front office duties utilizing data entry skills in framework of medical database.

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• Accurately completed insurance and Medicaid billing and OASIS documentation for patient visits.
• Obtained payments from patients and scanned identification and insurance cards.
• Managed office bookkeeping with insurance billing and patient payments.