

Passionate ESL teacher with 9+ years of experience teaching to students of diverse backgrounds. Committed to giving students interactive and practical means to acquire a second language. Very creative and developed most of my curriculum independently.
- Developed lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and other materials to support English acquisition, critical thinking, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills necessary to perform in high school, college, work and life
- Was involved in assisting with scheduling, movement of students to appropriate classes, and involved with imagining changes to better our emergent bilingual students’ abilities and chances to succeed
- Worked as a tutor focusing on emergent bilingual students during blitzes, class tutorials and tutorials
- Participated in committees such as LPAC, making sure emergent bilingual students are afforded modifications in class and during standardized testing
- Created and outlined an ESL scope and sequence to develop new Teach for America corps members' teaching skills in the classroom
- Facilitated and executed lessons with corps members, answering questions and clarifying as needed
- Offered personalized support as needed throughout the year as their professional development leader
- Handled many sales, technical support and billing calls for dial-up internet service in both English and Spanish
- Handled many calls, even difficult or escalated calls, with confidence, professionalism, patience and friendliness
- Was promoted to a Tier II position within less than two years where I assisted with supervising co-workers
Individual and group instruction
Testing and grading
Curriculum Development
English and Spanish fluency
9 Years as an ESL instructor