Marilyn Baker
Medford,NY
Summary
Enthusiastic educator dedicated, and goal-driven energetic professional with a solid commitment to the academic, social, and developmental growth for every child.
Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Teacher
Challenge Preparatory Charter Schools
08.2017 - Current
- Prepare and execute lesson plans for grades four and five
- Provide literacy strategies in Reading and Writing
- Provide small group instructions
- Provide equity for all students
- Create engaging learning activities
- Taught scholars how to expand technology usage in remote learning
- Provide extra literacy support for scholars on level 2
- Developed conducive relationships with parents
- Develop ongoing formal and informal assessments
- Developed ELA Curriculum
- Collaborated with adults and children to provide safe and educational experience.
- Chose materials and developed lesson plans to enhance skills for individual students.
- Built relationships and communicated with parents to provide best learning environment for children.
- Developed and implemented engaging lesson plans to keep learner attention.
- Facilitated student-led, inquiry-based activities in classroom to enhance learning experience.
- Utilized innovative teaching strategies to effectively engage students in learning.
- Shifted between formal and informal methods of teaching to keep students engaged.
- Fostered student curiosity and interest through creative hands-on activities.
- Modified lessons and curriculum to accommodate diverse learners by using strategies such as peer-assisted learning and group work.
- Designed detailed learning plans for struggling students based on test, homework and assignment records.
- Prepared quizzes, tests and examinations to gauge how well students were learning.
- Scheduled conferences with parents to discuss students' progress and classroom behavior.
- Helped students explore concepts with engaging, learning-focused activities.
- Created and developed lesson plans to meet students' academic needs.
- Participated in department meetings to provide input to colleagues about student achievement and improvement.
- Increased educational expertise and knowledge by participating in instructor-oriented workshops.
- Completed student progress reports mid-term to notify students and parents of strengths and areas of improvement.
- Boosted cultural awareness by incorporating children's literature from world cultures.
- Worked with staff members and teachers to design comprehensive and individualized plans to optimize student education.
Substitute Teacher, Per Diem
School Professionals Education Staffing New York
05.2015 - 06.2017
- Assigned to CPCS Feb
- 2017 and hired Aug
- 2017
- Prepare and execute Lesson Plans for all grades K-12
- Provide scaffolding techniques
- Develop modified LPs according to reading levels
- Provide classroom management
- Serve as testing proctor and one on one Reading level testing (F & Ps)
- Provide one on one instruction small group instruction
Wavier Service Provider, Per Diem
Cardinal McCloskey
06.2013 - 08.2015
- Provided Skill Building, Day Habilitation, Planned Respite, and Crisis Management
- Maintained case files for twenty-five clients in Foster Care
- Developed Safety and Behavioral Plans for Foster Care students and young adults
- Provided Educational Advocacy working with students in school to assure educational needs were met
- Strictly adheres to company policies using careful judgment
- Assisted with pertinent document completion with clients facing homelessness
- Located and assisted young adult enrollment for Vocational and Internship Programs
- Served as on-call Crisis Management provider for teenagers
Activity Specialist
SCO of Family Services
09.2014 - 06.2015
- Provided Youth Leadership and Healthy Living activities
- Coached and mentor students of the program
- Provided hands on demonstration on social norms, relationship building with the elderly
- Taught students how to prepare healthy meals/snacks
- Provided student with hands on activities geared toward young community leader
Uniserv Consultant
Memphis Education Association
07.2008 - 01.2014
- Provided organization facilitation, recruited educators and cultivated membership
- Met with school leadership to problem solve, and secure Due Process rights for educators
- Provide training and membership engagement
- Developed membership materials, maintained case files for fifty-three schools
- Negotiated Teacher contract, created classroom management training, organized fifty-three schools
- Created Press Release
- Maintained case files and build relationships with community stakeholders
Paraprofessional
Dekalb School System
11.1998 - 07.2012
- Provided One to One to teach Close Reading skills
- Provided support to At-risk students and their families
- Served as liaison to social workers and students
- Delivered small group instruction to special needs students
- Served as School Support Team to intervene with student behavior
- Responsible for engaging mentoring programs for student engagement
Education
Masters Degree - Childhood Education K-6
New York Institute of Technology
Westbury, N.Y.12.2021
Associate Degree - Human Relations
Interboro Institute
New York, N.Y.07.1998
Bachelors of Science - Legal Studies
John Jay College Criminal Justice
New York, N.Y.06.1998
Skills
- Proficient in PC and Mac computers
- Microsoft Windows
- Word
- Excel
- Access
- Photoshop
- Opera
- Internet research
- Basic PowerPoint
- Micros
- Relationship building
- Performance assessments
Certificatesandtraining
- Mediation I & II
- Problem Solving
- Relationship Building
- Skill Building
- Crisis Management
- Mandated Reporter
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Certified
- CPR/First Aid Certified
- OFCS (Office of Family and Child Services Certified)
- Microsoft Office/Word/ Excel
- Maintaining a Professional Workplace
- Principles of Supervision
- The Parenting Journey Institute
- DYCD online
Timeline
Teacher
Challenge Preparatory Charter Schools
08.2017 - Current
Substitute Teacher, Per Diem
School Professionals Education Staffing New York
05.2015 - 06.2017
Activity Specialist
SCO of Family Services
09.2014 - 06.2015
Wavier Service Provider, Per Diem
Cardinal McCloskey
06.2013 - 08.2015
Uniserv Consultant
Memphis Education Association
07.2008 - 01.2014
Paraprofessional
Dekalb School System
11.1998 - 07.2012
Associate Degree - Human Relations
Interboro Institute
Bachelors of Science - Legal Studies
John Jay College Criminal Justice
Masters Degree - Childhood Education K-6
New York Institute of Technology
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