Max Faga

Substitute teacher with experience in lesson planning, tutoring, and classroom management seeking further experience and a career in education. Aiming to empower students for success by promoting deep understanding and a love for learning.

Creative Lesson Planning

• Supplemented technical histories with contemporary literature and autobiographical accounts to increase understanding and retention in university courses and independent learning projects.
• Generated plan to regularly host expert guest speakers and member-led discussions for Drew Democratic Socialists to promote further learning and student engagement.
• Planned martial arts lessons for small groups of beginners, coaching them through varied drills to teach fundamental techniques and concepts.

Classroom Management

• Facilitated discussion meetings with class sizes ranging from 10 to 30 students for Drew Democratic Socialists, enforcing meeting rules to ensure active participation and a positive learning environment for everybody.
• Deescalated conflict and found creative solutions for 40+ aggrieved customers per day as a customer service representative at GEICO.
• Collaboratively led team of five students to create impact expansion document for Jordanian based non-profit We Love Reading promoting literacy in 63 countries.

Student Centered Learning

• Successfully tutored small groups of struggling students to success in upper-level economics courses by examining the theory, drawing real world parallels, and refreshing hard math skills.
• Volunteered to help elementary and middle school students learn material and complete assignments as part of high school honors society program.
• Altered pedagogical approaches and communication styles to better coach peers to technical proficiency in martial arts classes.

Martial Arts, Chess, Exercise & Nutrition, 20th Century History, American Labor History, Intellectual History, Hunter-Gatherer Anthropology