SAFIYA ADDO
Summary
Kind Kindergarten Teacher with 4 years of experience. Detail-oriented planner with a talent for developing individualized lesson plans and cultivating classroom atmospheres of positivity and progress. Committed to comprehensive student growth.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Kindergarten Teacher
Explore Charter School
2019.01 - Current
- Improved student reading skills by implementing phonics-based instruction and guided reading activities.
- Enhanced classroom management by establishing clear expectations, rules, and routines.
- Increased parent involvement through regular communication, parent-teacher conferences, and workshops.
- Promoted a positive learning environment with the use of collaborative group work and hands-on activities.
Secretary
Excellent Speech Intervention
2015.09 - 2018.10
- Makes and answers phone calls, deposits check and money into accounts, files paperwork, writes and mails out letters
Home Health Aide
Nurses in the Park
2010.12 - 2018.08
- Provides assistance to patients with their health care and hygienic needs, accompany patients to their appointments, clean and organize households
Genetics Plums Mentor / Science Tutor
Mount Holyoke College
2010.09 - 2013.01
- Assisted genetics students in understanding genetics, created handout and PowerPoint presentations to teach in our sessions, worked in a group with different mentors and also worked in groups or one on one with students
Assistant / Intern
Law Offices of Pearline Blackwood
2007.06 - 2008.08
- Made and answered phone calls, provided customer service to clients when they called in with questions or requests, greeted clients and potential clients when they entered the law firm, mailed priority and first class mail, organized and scanned case files on to her computers
Education
Non – Degree Student - Biology
Hunter College
New York, New YorkBachelors Degree of Science - Biology
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MassachusettsAdvanced Regents Diploma -
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
Brooklyn, New YorkSkills
- Microsoft Office
- Internet Research
- Data Analysis
- Classroom Management
- Time Management
- Student Records Management
- Behavior Modeling
- Classroom Instruction
- Behavior Management
- Faculty Collaboration
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Classroom Management Techniques
Activities
- Korean Dramas
- Volunteering at Horizons for Homeless Children
- Mount Holyoke College African Caribbean Student Association
- Association of Pan African Unity
- Anime and Manga
- Basketball
- Guitar Playing
- Swimming
Timeline
Kindergarten Teacher
Explore Charter School
2019.01 - Current
Secretary
Excellent Speech Intervention
2015.09 - 2018.10
Home Health Aide
Nurses in the Park
2010.12 - 2018.08
Genetics Plums Mentor / Science Tutor
Mount Holyoke College
2010.09 - 2013.01
Assistant / Intern
Law Offices of Pearline Blackwood
2007.06 - 2008.08
Non – Degree Student - Biology
Hunter College
Bachelors Degree of Science - Biology
Mount Holyoke College
Advanced Regents Diploma -
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
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