Experience Summary
I am currently pursuing my Doctorate of Psychology in Educational Leadership (projected graduation 10/2015) at University of the Rockies. I have a total of thirteen years in the business industry, including eight years in financial services, four years running my own businesses. I have been a team mentor and leader, regional mentor, trainer, and for the past 2 ½ years I have been an instructor and tutor at a local college. I am always researching and learning new ways to interact with my students and motivate them towards reaching their full learning potential. My instruction specialties include business, project management, finance, and psychology classes. In my time as an instructor, I have developed the skills necessary to work with a diverse group of students from various backgrounds and with differentiating educational requirements and learning styles. I also mentor at risk students who have had GPA and attendance obstructions or have been placed on SAP. As a mentor I succeeded in assisting several at risk students, either already on SAP or in danger of being placed on SAP, to become performing students with increased GPAs, and towards completion of their degree program. I am devoted to working with students to assist them towards achieving academic success and realizing their goals! My students would say that I often go above and beyond to provide them the extra help and motivation they need.
For the younger students I have volunteered in elementary schools as a classroom assistant during reading, grammar, and social studies times. I understand for the younger learner, learning needs to be fun and I have developed several activities that not only make learning basic skills fun but can make them easier for your child to learn.