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Meghan Rosa
Resume Title: Motivated Idealist seeks Secondary School Teaching Position- Humanities
Target Organization(s): CES School
Target State(s): California, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island
Target Job(s): Teacher
Target Grade Level(s): Middle, High
Target Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies
Education & Work Experience:
Education MASTERS IN THE ART OF TEACHING 2007
Clark University- Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education: Worcester, MA
- Coursework includes: Literacy across the Curriculum, Complexities of Urban Schooling, Human Development and Learning, Ways of Knowing in the Humanities
BACHELOR OF ENGLISH,WOMEN'S STUDIES 2006
Clark University: Worcester, MA
- Cum Laude
- Mentor for high school students
- Swimming & Diving
- High Honors in English for work entitled, “Deconstructing Oppression: The Women’s Room, Sula, and a Call for Unity among the Marginalized”
- Coursework includes: Women in Hispanic Literature, Social and Political Ethics, History of American Women, Global Cultures and Identities,
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE 2005
University of Stirling: Scotland
- Coursework includes: Religion and Colonization, Gender and Representation
Experience
WILLING WORKER ON ORGANIC FARM 2008
Hohepa Homes Bio-Dynamic Farm: Napier, New Zealand
- Guide adults with special needs to health & independence through horticulture therapy
STUDENT-TEACHER 2006-2007
(7th & 12th grade English)
University Park Campus School: Worcester, MA
- Coordinate and facilitate standards-based, college-prep, student-centered curricula
- Motivate and empower all students to read for understanding and significance, write proficiently and evocatively, and think both critically and creatively
- Establish ever-progressing relationships based on mutual respect, with the school’s students, faculty, staff and parents
MENTOR in MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION 2006
University Park Campus School’s August Academy: Worcester, MA
- Generate content area understanding and inspire cross-discipline skill building
- Promote academic and social self-confidence in rising 7th graders
CAMP COUNSELOR; LIFEGUARD 2004-2005
Camp Manitou for Boys: Oakland, ME
- Create warm environment in cabin of adolescent boys
- Design swimming lessons for multiple levels; Manage inter-camp swim meet
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Professional Development
STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 2006
Institute for Student Success: Worcester, MA
- Exchange ideas on best teaching practice with teachers from throughout the US (with emphasis on promoting achievement in the academically at-risk)
Additional Information:
All I could think about after returning home from a recent sojourn in New Zealand was getting back into teaching. As such I am writing to express my wholehearted interest in working with your students as a teacher of the humanities.
While I was earning my masters degree in teaching, I spent the 2006-2007 academic year as an un-paid faculty member at the University Park Campus School—a model early college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here, in collaboration with twenty other dedicated professionals, I worked to offer honors level curricula to low income students in non-tracked courses. I taught both 7th and 12th grade English and put into practice my long withstanding philosophy that all individuals— regardless of background or perceived ability— can and deserve to achieve academic success.
In tune with this belief, I have steadily developed a teaching style characterized by constructivist learning theories. I seek to make each student an agent of his or her own education by consigning responsibility. I prompt authentic learning and student ownership of concepts by fostering inquiry and advocating experimentation. Meanwhile, I hold each to high standards and offer personalized support.
Through this approach, I have seen students in my classes achieve that which they had once thought beyond them. They show me confidence in their ability to learn which will bring them greatness both in further schooling and outside the four walls of a classroom. This is why I teach.
To speak generally, I am a devoted, forward-thinking, reflective, patient, caring, and enthusiastic educator who is passionate for her subject matter. I love to work with kids and in particular those that the rest of the world tends to forget about.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter as well as my attached resume. I welcome the chance to speak with you.
Best,
Meghan Rosa
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Contact Information:
(508)560-6192
NOTE: I can make references available to you upon request.
Email: mrosa@clarku.edu
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