Margarita Diaz Hernandez
Santa Maria,CA
Summary
Dynamic Teaching Assistant with extensive classroom experience and a strong commitment to fostering student success. Proficient in alleviating teacher workloads by efficiently managing diverse support tasks while maintaining high educational standards. Adept at engaging with students across various learning levels and backgrounds, consistently providing timely assistance that enhances student learning and teacher well-being. Demonstrates reliability in maintaining organized environments and preparing essential materials for daily classroom activities.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Instructional Assistant II-Bilingual/Bicultural
Santa Maria Bonita School District
Santa Maria, CA
02.2017 - Current
- Conduct intervention with lowest performing students in classroom
- Lead Language Arts Centers for different academic level performing students
- Work with students individually to improve letter names and sounds and high frequency words and reading skills
- Ability to Lead Math Center Rotations
- Ability to supervise 25-60 kindergarten and transitional kindergarten students during recess
- Ability to successfully and properly interpret for parents, administrative and teaching staff in conferences, parent meetings, back to school nights, parent trainings, IEP’s and SST’s
Administrative Support Assistant II
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA
01.2015 - 04.2016
- Knowledge of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus resources and services.
- Assist Cal Poly Health Educator, student volunteers and interns to plan and coordinate events and meetings.
- Ability to manage office and supervise 40-45 students
- Manage multiple large accounts and funds
- Ability to complete Direct Buy, Petty Cash and Expenditure Transfer Forms
- Leadership Meeting Facilitator in absence of Health Educator
- Ability to order catering, reserve event location, request technology and facility services for events and meetings
- Experience in assisting students of diverse racial social and economic backgrounds
Employment Resource Specialist III
San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, CA
05.2013 - 08.2014
- Knowledge of San Luis Obispo County Department of Social Services policies and procedures.
- Ability to determine eligibility to Federal and State Public Assistance Programs, Affordable Care Act, Healthy Families referrals and Social Security Supplemental discontinuances.
- Ability to manage sensitive and confidential cases
- Maintain strong relationships with outside agencies to coordinate interventions for participants.
- Assist applicants and recipients in utilizing available community resources.
- Ability to compute mileage reimbursement and dispersing orders
- Facilitated monthly staff meetings and unit meetings
Employment Resource Specialist II
San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, CA
11.2011 - 04.2013
- Familiar with San Luis County policies, procedures and regulations regarding determination of eligibility to Federal and State Public Assistance programs
- Experience in researching and implementing Federal State and County Government regulation and timeframes
- Evaluate applications to determine participants eligibility criteria
- Maintain strong relationships with outside agencies to coordinate interventions for participants
- Ability to effectively manage dealing with challenging individuals in a tactful and courteous manner
- Attended and participated in monthly staff unit meetings and workgroups
Employment Resource Specialist I
San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, CA
05.2011 - 10.2011
- Evaluate applications to determine eligibility to State and Federal Assistance programs
- Maintain professional and strength based interaction with participants
- Assist applicants and recipients in utilizing available community resources
Education
Bachelor of Science - Spanish
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA08-2008
Bachelors of Arts - Spanish
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA08-2008
Skills
- Bilingual: English and Spanish (Fluent, verbal, reading and writing)
- Excellent organization interpersonal and communication (oral and written)
- Positive personal attributes: kind, generous, friendly and helpful (always willing to be of assistance to administrative, certificated and classified staff)
- High level of professionalism, exceptional phone and in person etiquette
- Exceptionally detail orientated, always exceeding work performance expectations
- Ability to multitask and prioritize work in order of importance, unprecedented urgency and deadline
- Ability to precisely translate English documents to Spanish and vice versa
- Ability to proficiently navigate through Aeries, create new student profiles, update attendance records and look up student parent and emergency contacts, teacher information etc
- Ability to effectively locate students for parent pick up purposes by using readily available resources such as daily activity schedule for each grade level, using walkie talkie to communicate with Student Supervisors etc
- Ability to manage and organize absence justification documentation (ie Dr’s note)
- Ability to submit absence documentation in weekly/monthly attendance reports
- Proficient in utilizing email calendars to set alerts, calendar appointments, meetings and trainings
- Ability to de-escalate aggravated parents students
- Ability to handle myself well under pressure especially in emergency situations
- Ability to keep my work space orderly and organized in order to be more efficient in completing projects and day to day assignments
- Resourceful in available community resources in Northern Santa Barbara County and Southern San Luis Obispo County
- Resourceful in navigating Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University and Allan Hancock College services
Timeline
Instructional Assistant II-Bilingual/Bicultural
Santa Maria Bonita School District
02.2017 - Current
Administrative Support Assistant II
California Polytechnic State University
01.2015 - 04.2016
Employment Resource Specialist III
San Luis Obispo County
05.2013 - 08.2014
Employment Resource Specialist II
San Luis Obispo County
11.2011 - 04.2013
Employment Resource Specialist I
San Luis Obispo County
05.2011 - 10.2011
Bachelor of Science - Spanish
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelors of Arts - Spanish
University of California Los Angeles