Kim Metcalfe

Associate Professor Early Childhood Education

Riverside Community College District

08.2001 - 06.2016

Helped students to develop and demonstrate broad, integrative and specialized knowledge, essential habits of mind, communicative fluency and effective problem-solving skills.
Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
Updated curricula and lesson plans for primary instructors, researching developments in relevant fields and updating materials to reflect most recent data and statistics.
Graded quizzes, tests, homework and projects to provide students with timely academic progress information and feedback.
Assisted and identified at-risk students to eliminate student barriers to learning.
Mentored students and advised on career paths, degree requirements and post-graduate education options.
Served students, clients and programs through participation in assessment processes, academic support units and university committees and task forces.
Sustained professional contact with colleagues and engaged in continuing professional activities to upgrade and augment existing skills or develop new ones.
Advised student groups, assisting learners in educational programs both on and off campus.
Made contributions in curricular development and innovation in teaching strategies.
Managed interpersonal conflict situations requiring tact, diplomacy and discretion, supporting culture of diversity, equity and inclusion with students, employees, alumni and other stakeholders.
Enhanced effectiveness of curriculum and lectures using computer-assisted instruction programs and audio-visual equipment.
Proctored mid-term and final examinations, assisting students with assignment comprehension and monitoring for indications of cheating.
Kept abreast of advances in pedagogy and work to continuously improve teaching methods and introduce new approaches to instruction.
Shifted between informal and formal methods of teaching to create multi-layered web of learning incorporating experiments, practical activities, discussions and projects into lessons.
Collaborated with faculty and community stakeholders for program improvement.
Developed and taught undergraduate courses in for department offerings serving major, minor and general students.
Offered career assistance to students by conducting mock interviews, providing relevant job opportunities and teaching networking skills and strategies.
Guided personnel through selection and ordered of textbooks for program courses.