Marissa King

Summary: Compassionate, creative and effective with valuable experience in classroom administration, teaching core principals, excelling in teaching reading, math and social skills.

• Incorporate A to Z reading and personal strategies that have helped my class exceed expected educational guidelines.
• Teach students subject-specific material, learning strategies and social skills.
• Drive student learning by establishing clear classroom plans and group objectives, as well as actionable strategies to achieve each goal.
• Implement classroom management improvements to enhance class morale and engagement.
• Plan lessons according to district standards to cover requirements and prepare for standardized tests.
• Assess student learning progress and comprehension.
• Adept at working with parents and students that have learning delays or undiagnosed challenges
• Create engaging, multi-dimensional lessons to engage students and focus on core subjects necessary for personal and academic growth.
• Foster student curiosity and interest in learning through hands-on activities.

Summary: Teacher coordinator creating curriculum and training teachers focused on building a foundations for excellence.

• Hired, oversaw, mentored and trained 12 teachers
• Developed workshops, seminars, 1-1 and other activities promoting teacher professional growth and development.
• Conducted conferences with parents and students to review progress, adjust academic plans.
• Monitored progress of individual students using assessment data to inform future instruction.
• Evaluated and created training tools in order to continually improve learning platforms and lessons.
• Designed, implemented and selected successful curriculum, and learning strategies for all classes to meet department and school needs.
• Delivered private instruction to teachers that needed more support in math, reading, class room management and sensory activities,

Summary: Committed to leading and creating a positive and caring community focused on youth development. Successful in organizational leadership, program development and volunteer management.

• Created, spearheaded and taught engaging weekly events and classes for 5 - 18 years olds.
• Trained volunteers and teachers to execute all classes and activities.
• Oversaw youth budget and tracked all expenses.
• Introduced youth advocacy program to generate increased involvement.
• Applied best practices for developing youth program integrity and outreach activities.
• Utilized excellent organizational and communications skills to orchestrate multiple classes, events and programs at one time.

Summary: Passionate early education teacher focused on helping students thrive by offering strong classroom management, lots of care and dedication to fun, happy, creative, differentiated learning.

• Fostered reasoning and problem solving through active exploration activities
• Educated students in foundational concepts such as shapes, numbers and letters.
• Promoted sensory and skill based objectives.
• Developed curriculum to advance physical, emotional, social and cognitive growth of children.
• Applied evidence based strategies to provide diverse approaches to learning.
• Used data to create, monitor and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
• Identified characteristics, needs, abilities and problems of each child through personal interaction and progress reports to optimize approaches.

Summary: Strong organizational planning along with close communications with parents led to success in delivering a children's program from which drove excitement and positive impact on youth and families.

• Researched, developed and facilitated a comprehensive and cohesive curriculum for all grades, nursery to 6th grade.
• Promoted and planned various week-long camps, focused on science, math, and social activities.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Recruited, managed and trained volunteers and teachers to consistently deliver exceptional educational experiences and lessons.