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Teresa Boykins

Lithonia,GA

Summary

Dedicated and passionate educator with a strong commitment to student development and academic growth, seeking a fulfilling teaching position to make a positive impact on young minds. Eager to create a dynamic and engaging learning environment that fosters curiosity, critical thinking, and a love for lifelong learning. Aspiring to utilize teaching specialization background, strong communication skills, and enthusiasm for education to inspire and empower students to reach their full potential academically, socially, and emotionally.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Glennwood Elementary
02.2023 - 05.2023
  • Follow established curriculum and teacher's plans or create lesson plans as needed
  • Maintain discipline and conducive learning environment, keeping students focused and engaged
  • Evaluate student work, grade assignments, and tests, and provide feedback on academic progress
  • Offer additional support and accommodations for students with special needs or challenges
  • Maintain open lines of communication with students, parents, and school staff regarding student progress and concerns.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations
  • Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed

Assistant Teacher

YMCA
08.2021 - 05.2022
  • Organizes classroom space into functional areas (interest centers) in collaboration with teacher
  • Maintains clean and healthy classroom environment
  • Maintains safe environment – indoor and outdoor
  • Keeps classroom arranged in orderly manner and materials readily accessible to children
  • Provides for constant supervision of children during all activities – indoors and outdoors
  • Observes physical conditions of children and makes referrals to teacher when necessary
  • In collaboration with teacher, prepares in advance lesson plans, materials and environment that are organized, interactive, appropriate, clean, safe and hands on
  • Follows daily schedule in conducting activities that are appropriate for individual developmental levels of all children
  • In absence of teacher, assumes primary responsibility for classroom management
  • Provides variety of art media and allows for creative expressions
  • Displays children's work at eye level in classroom, hallway, etc.

Cashier/ Food Server

04.2021 - 01.2022
  • Provided friendly guest service with heartfelt hospitality
  • Operated drive through window
  • Maintained high standards of customer service during high volume, fast paced operations
  • Facilitated money transactions for customers that included, checks, credit and debit transactions., Provided friendly guest service with heartfelt hospitality
  • Maintained high standards of customer service during high volume, fast paced operations
  • Light housekeeping restocked

Sub-Floater

Easter Seal’s
06.2020 - 08.2021
  • Maintains positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in manner so that get along with customers, clients, co-workers, and management
  • Assists in planning and implementing developmentally and linguistically appropriate activities, that recognizes and supports each child’s rate of development
  • Assists in assessing safety of classroom and outdoor play areas before engaging children in activities
  • Assists in organizing classroom environment into areas to be used for learning, eating, resting and playing in accordance with Creative Curriculum
  • Accompanies children to and from bus, classroom, playground, and out of center activities maintaining attendance check and head count
  • Assists in development of daily schedule of child initiated and teacher-initiated activities that is well defined to help children in order of events accruing each day
  • Maintains staff and classroom ratios at all times
  • Leads classroom in absence of Teacher

Lead Cashier

Little Giants Farmers Market
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Provided friendly guest service with heartfelt hospitality
  • Maintained high standards of customer service during high volume, fast paced operations
  • Facilitated money transactions for customers that included, checks, credit and debit transactions
  • Supervise cashier and monitor the cash register/ pull tills beginning and end of my shift Pop shelf
  • Trained, mentored, and developed new cashiers with positive and encouraging techniques to maximize performance and team contributions
  • Performed store opening, closing, and shift-change actions and kept accurate shift-change logs

Nanny/Weekend

Walker Family
02.2017 - 01.2019
  • Care for two children, ages 11 and 12
  • Prepare and serve meals with balanced nutrition and ensuring food safety for allergies
  • Organize fun and age appropriate activity
  • Working on school projects and homework
  • Light housekeeping
  • Meeting with parents on weekly basis to discuss weekend plans.
  • Prepared meals and snacks for children based on dietary guidelines
  • Organized and cleaned home after activities by picking up toys and straightening up play room
  • Built positive and nurturing environments to support child social and emotional growth

Education

Associate of Science - Middle Grades EDU

Georgia State Perimeter College
Clarkston, GA
05.2022

HS Diploma -

Clarkston High School
Clarkston,Ga
05.2019

Skills

  • Lesson Planning
  • Balance Sheets
  • Proposal Writing
  • Social Studies
  • Group and individual instruction
  • Classroom management
  • Child development
  • Student engagement
  • Learner assessment
  • Experiential learning

Timeline

Glennwood Elementary
02.2023 - 05.2023

Assistant Teacher

YMCA
08.2021 - 05.2022

Cashier/ Food Server

04.2021 - 01.2022

Sub-Floater

Easter Seal’s
06.2020 - 08.2021

Lead Cashier

Little Giants Farmers Market
06.2019 - 03.2021

Nanny/Weekend

Walker Family
02.2017 - 01.2019

Associate of Science - Middle Grades EDU

Georgia State Perimeter College

HS Diploma -

Clarkston High School

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