Experience

• Rio Hondo Independent School District

  Math Teacher

  Math Teacher (first 12 weeks)
  • taught 7th and 8th grade math
  • learned how to manage students, work with parents
  • worked with peers and principals to improve, as a teacher
  
  Migrant Coordinator (24 weeks, after Math Teacher)
  • worked with migrant students, grades 7-12
  • pulled some students out of electives, for one-on-one or small group learning
  • worked in some students' classes, so they could be assisted, while not missing out on the classroom environment
  • compiled the limited sample questions, and aligned each to the new curricula (grades 7-8, Algebra I), to help all math teachers, with state exam preparation
  • found a method to prepare calculators for state exams, in minutes, by one person -- the previous method required several teachers, setting two calculators, at a time
  • discovered that we were inadvertently, unnecessarily taking calculator functionality away from students

• Texas Southmost College

  Adjunct Lecturer

  • taught College Algebra and Contemporary Math courses
  • emailed students PDF files of solutions, when they sent questions
  • created PDF documents with test review solutions, so students could practice anytime, anywhere, and with any device

• University of Texas at Brownsville

  Learning Assistant

  • Served as instructor of two sections, from
  January to May of 2008
  • Prepared and delivered lectures
  • Determined rate of material coverage for
  classroom from curriculum
  • Grade homework
  • Assist students with in-class assignments
  during class
  • Maintained tutoring hours in math lab
  • Communicated what areas of the math
  subject area required more attention by
  gathering input from the students and
  their assignments
  • Proctor major exams

• University of Texas at Brownsville

  Learning Assistant

  Assist students with in-class assignments
  • Maintained tutoring hours in the math lab
  • Communicated what areas of the math subject
  area required more attention by gathering input
  from the students and their assignments.
  • Proctor major exams

• University of Texas at Brownsville

  Pre-Calculus Boot Camp Instructor

  One of three lecturers
  • Two-week refresher course for students aiming
  to bypass Pre-Calculus, via exam
  • Camp ran twice, for a total of four weeks

• Northside Independent School District

  Teacher

  • taught Dual Credit Precalculus and Dual-Credit/A.P. Calculus
  • at the end of the school year, the school's grading machine wasn't cooperating with the final exams, for Precalculus and Calculus; i found grading software, which worked on computers, tablets, and smartphones, to ensure that our deadline was met
  • was told by students and other teachers that i taught students in a way they hadn't been taught before: with fundamentals, proofs, and as adults
  • pure math concepts, like writing an integral as a limit of a Riemann sum, are being emphasized by College Board, on the A.P. exam; in district-wide meetings, i was able to assist many veteran teachers, who hadn't practiced these skills in years
  • constantly kept calculators in test mode, which allowed for remote clearance, so students could not see what had been input, by the previous student