Jamie Larson�s Resume
JAMIE L. LARSON
Address: 9851 E Casitas del Rio Dr. Scottsdale, AZ 85255
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CAREER PROFILE
Dedicated, creative, and energetic teacher with over ten (10) years of experience creating and implementing hands-on activities and lessons to encourage a lifelong love of learning in students. Key accomplishments include curriculum creation and development that provides a rich multi-sensory learning environment that is safe, tech savvy, inter-active, and above all FUN for the children and families served, coupled with fostering of communication feedback loops with parents to ensure continued positive outcomes.
AREAS of EXPERTISE and CORE STRENGTHS
? Successful Classroom Management ?
? Facilitating Conflict Resolution & Resource Development
? Creating a safe and rich learning environment
? Innovative Curriculum Development
? Exceptional Verbal/Written Communications
? Promoting Positive Outcomes
? Health and Cultural Awareness
? Teaching children birth to age eight
? Assessment of Growth and Development
SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS
• Industry Experience: Over the course of ten (10) years, worked diverse groups and varied levels of service demand including private family employment, private school teaching, charter school teaching, volunteerism in affluent to at-risk populations and management of age groups ranging from 0-12.
• Service Experience: Through daily interactions with children, families and community members, incorporated a service philosophy of delivering functional and culturally competent materials in an educational setting. Consistently exceeding the expectations of the parents served, delivering a personal, individualized and consistently loving experience to every child that service was provided to.
• Verbal/Written Communications: Developed, fostered and bridged professional communications with diverse audiences. Demonstrated ability to adjust and adapt communication to maximize effectiveness and deliver easily, understandable messages, providing clear and concise communication style in one-on-one settings, group settings, email and written communications. Facilitated frequent, ongoing communication through creation and maintenance of a classroom website which was updated on a weekly basis and developed entirely from scratch each year to provide the most current information available.
• Assessment of Growth and Development: Developed an assessment system that allowed for daily, weekly, and monthly input on the observation of individualized growth, development, interactions, and behaviors of each child. Conducted Parent/Teacher conferences focused on present educational skills, challenges, strengths, uniqueness, and progress toward achieving established goals.
PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY
8/2015 – Present, Lead Teacher – Kindergarten; Basis Phoenix Central, Phoenix, AZ
08/2014- 5/2015, Lead Teacher – Preschool 3s; Rancho Solano, Scottsdale, AZ
01/2004 – 09/2013, Lead Teacher – Toddler 2s; Awakening Seed School, Phoenix, AZ
? Academic education for children aged 2-7; creating curriculum that developed social, emotional, motor and basic academic skills and followed Arizona State’s Early Learning Standards.
? Created, tracked, and monitored social and academic progress for children and communicate progress regularly with parents and school leadership.
? Maintained classroom order through established rules and guidelines and consistent delivery of messaging and accountability.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY (Continued)
? Provided parents with individualized, written daily reports, white board messages, (hung on classroom doors) information bulletin board displayed and updated, and classroom websites were created and engineered to act as the main source of communication to classroom families.
? Established a consistent and age-appropriate classroom routine.
? Acted as the child’s advocate to ensure a strong educational, social and emotional experience at pivotal developmental points.
? Trained assistant teacher, mentored new employees, lead, prepared, and contributed to weekly staff meetings.
? Attended continuing education seminars and personal development workshops yearly.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in: Early Childhood Education and Child Development/Family Studies
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Graduation: 2006
Teaching For Understanding Online Certified: 12/2014 Spalding Certified: 07/2015
VOLUNTEER HISTORY
• Event Coordinator (Awakening Seed School)
? End of Year Party Coordinator
? Seed Picnic Coordinator
• Committee Participation (Awakening Seed School)
? Seed Food Curriculum Committee Member
? Solstice Celebration Committee Member
? Halloween Carnival Committee Member
? Parent Association Member/Classroom Parent Representative
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Computer Skills: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Pages, iMovie, Sandivox, IWeb
• Operating Systems: MaxOS, Windows OS
JAMIE L. LARSON
Address: 9851 E Casitas del Rio Dr. Scottsdale, AZ 85255
Cellular: ------------ E-mail: ------------
CAREER PROFILE
Dedicated, creative, and energetic teacher with over ten (10) years of experience creating and implementing hands-on activities and lessons to encourage a lifelong love of learning in students. Key accomplishments include curriculum creation and development that provides a rich multi-sensory learning environment that is safe, tech savvy, inter-active, and above all FUN for the children and families served, coupled with fostering of communication feedback loops with parents to ensure continued positive outcomes.
AREAS of EXPERTISE and CORE STRENGTHS
? Successful Classroom Management ?
? Facilitating Conflict Resolution & Resource Development
? Creating a safe and rich learning environment
? Innovative Curriculum Development
? Exceptional Verbal/Written Communications
? Promoting Positive Outcomes
? Health and Cultural Awareness
? Teaching children birth to age eight
? Assessment of Growth and Development
SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS
• Industry Experience: Over the course of ten (10) years, worked diverse groups and varied levels of service demand including private family employment, private school teaching, charter school teaching, volunteerism in affluent to at-risk populations and management of age groups ranging from 0-12.
• Service Experience: Through daily interactions with children, families and community members, incorporated a service philosophy of delivering functional and culturally competent materials in an educational setting. Consistently exceeding the expectations of the parents served, delivering a personal, individualized and consistently loving experience to every child that service was provided to.
• Verbal/Written Communications: Developed, fostered and bridged professional communications with diverse audiences. Demonstrated ability to adjust and adapt communication to maximize effectiveness and deliver easily, understandable messages, providing clear and concise communication style in one-on-one settings, group settings, email and written communications. Facilitated frequent, ongoing communication through creation and maintenance of a classroom website which was updated on a weekly basis and developed entirely from scratch each year to provide the most current information available.
• Assessment of Growth and Development: Developed an assessment system that allowed for daily, weekly, and monthly input on the observation of individualized growth, development, interactions, and behaviors of each child. Conducted Parent/Teacher conferences focused on present educational skills, challenges, strengths, uniqueness, and progress toward achieving established goals.
PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY
8/2015 – Present, Lead Teacher – Kindergarten; Basis Phoenix Central, Phoenix, AZ
08/2014- 5/2015, Lead Teacher – Preschool 3s; Rancho Solano, Scottsdale, AZ
01/2004 – 09/2013, Lead Teacher – Toddler 2s; Awakening Seed School, Phoenix, AZ
? Academic education for children aged 2-7; creating curriculum that developed social, emotional, motor and basic academic skills and followed Arizona State’s Early Learning Standards.
? Created, tracked, and monitored social and academic progress for children and communicate progress regularly with parents and school leadership.
? Maintained classroom order through established rules and guidelines and consistent delivery of messaging and accountability.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY (Continued)
? Provided parents with individualized, written daily reports, white board messages, (hung on classroom doors) information bulletin board displayed and updated, and classroom websites were created and engineered to act as the main source of communication to classroom families.
? Established a consistent and age-appropriate classroom routine.
? Acted as the child’s advocate to ensure a strong educational, social and emotional experience at pivotal developmental points.
? Trained assistant teacher, mentored new employees, lead, prepared, and contributed to weekly staff meetings.
? Attended continuing education seminars and personal development workshops yearly.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in: Early Childhood Education and Child Development/Family Studies
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Graduation: 2006
Teaching For Understanding Online Certified: 12/2014 Spalding Certified: 07/2015
VOLUNTEER HISTORY
• Event Coordinator (Awakening Seed School)
? End of Year Party Coordinator
? Seed Picnic Coordinator
• Committee Participation (Awakening Seed School)
? Seed Food Curriculum Committee Member
? Solstice Celebration Committee Member
? Halloween Carnival Committee Member
? Parent Association Member/Classroom Parent Representative
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Computer Skills: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Pages, iMovie, Sandivox, IWeb
• Operating Systems: MaxOS, Windows OS