Middle School Science Teacher Grades 5th-8th
Asheville Catholic School
08.2021 - Current
- Responsible for the following:
- Fostering and nurturing the spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and intellectual well-being through the implementation of creative lessons that are developed via best practices in aligning with the National Middle School Physical Science standards (NextGen) that recognizes each student’s dignity within our unique Catholic environment.
- Evaluating and assessing student mastery and developing individual intervention plans for those students that require additional enrichment for mastery.
- Modifying lessons to implement Individual Education Plans (504) and MAP (modified academic plan) students.
- Science Fair: Mentoring students through their science fair experiments and papers, organizing our school's science fair, preparing students for NC region 8 science fair competition at Western Carolina University, and preparing students for the state competition (NCSEF) at NC State University.
- Collaborating daily with team teachers to coordinate student concerns, schedules, assessments, lunch, field trips, remind, and Google Classroom.
- Daily communication with all constituents via phone, email, Remind, Blackbaud, and Google Classroom related to assignments, assessments, and concerns.
- Collaborating weekly with core teachers, counselors, learning support, and administrators.
- Communicate/collaborate bi-monthly at the all-school level to evaluate current methods/practices/systems and contemplate ways to improve constituent experience.
- Collaborating bimonthly for fundraising events.
- Integrating assorted technology into lessons via ChromeBooks, and iPads through the Google Education platform, Windows, and IOS systems.
- Continuing education credits to maintain requirements for diocesan certification.
- Investigating various publishers and communicating comparison conclusions for textbook adoption (2024-2025).
- Diocese of Charlotte Teaching Certificate Form A- Science
