Nikki Anderson
Mazatlán,Mexico
Summary
Accomplished, forward-thinking educator bringing over 20 years of experience in education. Focused on building connections with educators, students, families, and communities to provide effective learning environments for all students. Helps ensure success for all learners. Provides diverse expertise in classroom instruction and management.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Secondary World History Teacher
Colegio Rex Canadian International School
Mazatlán, MX
01.2024 - Current
- Develop and implement engaging lesson plans in alignment with curriculum standards.
- Foster a supportive classroom environment, promoting student collaboration and critical thinking.
- Utilize diverse instructional strategies to meet the needs of a multicultural classroom.
- Assess student performance and provide constructive feedback to enhance learning outcomes.
Head Teacher
University Primary School
Champaign, IL
08.2019 - 01.2024
- Organize and lead activities to promote physical, mental and social development.
- Implement hands-on, play-based strategies for experiential learning.
- Maintain daily records of individual activities, and behaviors.
- Establish indoor and outdoor safe play environments for upper elementary children.
- Create and implement developmentally appropriate curriculum addressing learning styles.
- Collaborate with parents to develop and maintain strong support networks and build rapport to foster seamless communication.
- Distribute quarterly progress and milestone reports to each parent.
- Schedule and hold parent-teacher conferences to keep parents up to date on children's academic performance.
Cooperating Teacher
University Primary School
Champaign, IL
08.2019 - 01.2024
- Direct teacher candidate in the observation and analysis of students.
- Provide written and verbal feedback to teacher candidate on a regular basis.
- Commend the teacher candidate on specific strengths and discuss areas of weaknesses.
- Discuss and demonstrate techniques to remediate weaknesses.
- Encourage teacher candidate to reflect on lessons taught.
- Collaborate with clinical instructor and teacher candidate on weekly progress.
- Evaluate teacher candidate using Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching.
Middle School Science/US History Teacher
Iles Middle School
Springfield, IL
08.2017 - 05.2019
- Established learning objectives to satisfy state and federal educational standards.
- Secured grant money to fund purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment.
- Implemented innovative programs to encourage learning through effective interactions.
- Collaborated with parents and other faculty members to set realistic objectives.
- Provided practice tests to boost student performance on actual tests.
- Arranged for field trips to emphasize scientific concepts.
- Graded papers and provided feedback to students.
- Enhanced student learning using weekly experiments and projects.
Elementary School Teacher
Dubois Elementary School
Springfield, IL
08.2007 - 05.2017
- Created safe, nurturing environment of trust and respect.
- Maintained safe, clean, and organized classroom environment.
- Attended in-service training and professional development courses to stay on top of policy and education changes.
- Taught students subject-specific material, learning strategies and social skills.
- Involved parents in student education by cultivating strong relationships.
- Arranged field trips as tool to provide students with real-world experiences.
Education
Master of Arts - Teacher Leadership
University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, IL05.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education
Benedictine University
Springfield, IL05.2007
Skills
- Group and individual instruction
- Leadership
- Creative problem-solving
- Curriculum and instructional design
- Effective, engaging communication
- Multitasking
- Research and development
- Differentiates learning techniques
- Interactive teaching/learning
- Strategic planning and organization
- Technology-based strategies
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Progress reporting
Accomplishments
- Harvard-Smithsonian YouthAstroNet Program Leader - Current
- Conceptual Curriculum Design Team 2018 - 2019
- Member, Illinois Association for Gifted Children 2018 - 2019
- History Department, Chair - 2017 - 2019
- Teacher, IMSA Fusion 2017 - 2018
- Member, National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) 2017 - PRESENT
- Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) 2010-2015
Timeline
Secondary World History Teacher
Colegio Rex Canadian International School
01.2024 - Current
Head Teacher
University Primary School
08.2019 - 01.2024
Cooperating Teacher
University Primary School
08.2019 - 01.2024
Middle School Science/US History Teacher
Iles Middle School
08.2017 - 05.2019
Elementary School Teacher
Dubois Elementary School
08.2007 - 05.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education
Benedictine University
Master of Arts - Teacher Leadership
University of Illinois at Springfield
Activities and Honors
Horace Mann Educator of the Year Nominee, 2015, Recipient of the Rising Star Award, 2009, First graduate of the Springfield Grow Your Own Teachers Cohort, 2007