Current Employment: Project Coordinator & Research Assistant, GRIP Lab, School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

  • Plan & facilitate professional development events for secondary teachers, both in person and virtually 
  • Manage statewide & nationwide educational research projects 
  • Hire undergraduate employees, manage their research, workflows, and ethics compliances 
  • Satisfy theoretical & scientific objectives
  • Employ methodology & create techniques for conducting educational research
  • Research focused on Place-Based Education & dissemination of findings to the larger community 
  • Track teacher decisions and pedagogy through low inference data coding and analysis
  • Analyze, manage, & organize educational data 
  • Segment & index video data based on teacher decision making & transitioning
  • Prepare briefs, reports, and presentations based on found data for superiors
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EDUStaff Substitute Teacher 

  • Novi High School long term Health substitute & English as a Second Language Health Course 
  • Substituted in English, Health, Technology, Chemistry, Resource Rooms, etc, throughout districts such as Lenawee, Washtenaw, and Wayne County, Michigan

Tecumseh High School Associate Teaching 

  • Created cross-curricular lesson plans focused around Competency-Based grading 
  • Launched interdisciplinary unit plans for the Freshman Team using Project-Based Learning (PBL)
  • Facilitated conferences and curriculum nights with parents of students 
  • Accommodated instruction in accordance with IEPs
  • Worked as a part of the ninth grade team instructing English and Health classes
  • Attended district provided professional development meetings 
  • Teacher Appreciation Day Honoree ​

Clinical Hours in the Field 

  • Worked all 4 years of college as a Circulation Clerk & Tutor in the Shipman Library, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan 
  • 20 hours running a Writing Club at Adrian Middle School, Adrian, Michigan: Planned & facilitated an after school writing program, focusing on creative writing, poetry, grammar & punctuation 
  • 5 hours in a 9th-grade health classroom, Tecumseh High School, Tecumseh, Michigan: Instructed three classes on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Specific lesson plan on tobacco use and vape products
  • 30 hours in a 7th & 8th grade English and honors English classrooms, Onsted Middle School, Onsted, Michigan: Observed and assisted the teacher in instruction
  • 30 hours in 9th grade English and honors English classrooms, Tecumseh High School, Tecumseh, Michigan
  • 30 hours volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club of Adrian, Michigan: Graded assignments, worked with students in small groups
  • 30 hours in a 7th & 8th grade Spanish and English classrooms, Adrian Middle School, Adrian, Michigan: Observed students with exceptionalities in the classroom, sat in on IEPs.
  • Work Study in Alexander Pre School, Adrian Michigan: Worked as a teacher’s assistant, and instructed mini-lessons with small groups of students
  • 30 hours in a 7th & 8th grade English classrooms, Sand Creek Middle School, Sand Creek, Michigan: Graded assignments, tutored students in reading and writing

Volunteering 

Penrickton Center for the Blind

This past semester I volunteered at the Penrickton Center, non-profit  residential and day care agency serving blind, multi- disabled children. In my time here, I was able to actively accommodate to the children's needs, but even more so, I was able to truly experience the capacity to which kids with disabilities accommodate for themselves. Blindness and other disabilities aside, my time spent here was some of the most fun I have ever had. I believe that this experience also made me more cognizant to the importance of verbal communication. 

Cross-Curricular Collaboration

In conclusion to our cross-disciplinary unit at Tecumseh High School, the 9th grade team led an integration lab day where our 9th graders used their own instructions and visual aids (english) to teach 5th and 6th graders how to build a match rocket. Using their own kits fashioned by their specific budgetary needs (economics), our students led their own lessons about combustion (science & math). All core subjects had a part in this expo day. This gave my students the opportunity to hold leadership roles, and opportunities to take responsibility for their own learning, offer collaboration with other learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members, to ensure learner growth.

Certifications

  • Standard Teaching Certificate (MI)
  • CPR & AED American Red Cross 8-18-18
  • Secondary English & Health
  • Health HIV & AIDs Cert Lenawee ISD 9-25-17

Catherine Cobb

During my time at Adrian College I volunteered at The Catherine Cobb Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Shelter. I helped them organize donations and spent time with several of the children and mothers staying in the house. 

Writing Club

With peers from my Teaching Writing course at Adrian College, we ran an after school writing program once a week at Adrian Middle School for 6 weeks. During this time we worked on fundamental skills, creative writing, and finished off the experience with a pizza party where students got to share their creative writing pieces, all of which we had professionally bound for them.