Experience Summary
2004-2011 GED Instructor for Greenville Technical College and Greenville County Schools. I was the teacher and leader of a satellite GED class based at Berea First Baptist Church in Greenville SC. In addition to designing and teaching daily lesson plans, I assessed students' aptitude for our program through placement testing. My responsibilities included keeping records, reporting regularly to our supervising agencies and working with volunteers. I enlisted, trained, and scheduled volunteers from the church to assist in class and also arranged tutors for students needing individual help. I served as the liaison between the church and the class in terms of scheduling, facility needs, and class needs, and promoted the class to the church and community. I enlisted donations from the church for student scholarships, snacks, and gifts for achievement recognition. Most importantly, I served as a life coach to many of my students.
Developmental English Instructor - Greenville Technical College I taught both English 100 and English 032 classes in the Developmental Studies Department of Greenville Technical College. My responsibilities included developing lesson plans and implementing them in the classroom, communicating with students through Blackboard as well as through e-mail, maintaining attendance, recognizing and referring at-risk students, administering and grading both grammar tests and writing assignments. Both English 032 and English 100 classes focused on grammar and various modes of writing. In English 032, however,the writing assignments were limited to paragraphs, whole in English 100, the writing assignments involved both responses to reading assignments and essay development in response to a prompt.
Teaching Style
I would describe my teaching style as interactive. I use some lecture usually accompanied with power points, but generally those power points include practice reviews with the students. I use games to encourage and reinforce learning, as well as practice tests and group work. Most of my students don't learn well with a straight lecture format so I try to mix it up.