Amy Buffington
Stonewall, LA **078
EDUCATION
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Masters in Administration and Supervision, May 2000
Northeast Louisiana University
Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, May 1992
Certified Educator in first through eighth grades with a Lifetime Type A
certificate
number 058680 issued August 28, 2001.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Teacher at Summerfield Elementary August 2004 to May 2010
Fifth grade
Lead teacher fifth grade, co-coordinator of annual fifth grade trip to
Baton Rouge, LA; United Way co-coordinator, 4-H school sponsor, numerous
other workshops and presentations
Teacher at Lenwil Elementary August 1994 to May 2004
Lenwil Elementary in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades
Lead teacher fourth grade, co-sponsor Junior Beta Club, co-sponsor student
council,
cadre facilitator, spelling bee coordinator, courtesy co-coordinator,
United Way coordinator, Title II workshop presenter, Project Learning
Tree, Project Wild, Teachers Teaching with Technology/ summer calculator
workshop, Physical Science for Middle Grades workshop, Waste in Place
workshop, and numerous other workshops.
Teacher at Robinson and Lenwil Elementary September
1993 to May 1994
Special education itinerant in self-contained/resource classroom
Long-term substitute for Ouachita Parish school system February 1993
to September 1993
Prior to my teaching career and during the summers of 1993, 1994, 1995,
1996, and 1997, I worked in several office settings on a temporary basis.
Skills used keyboarding, filing, customer service, and an administrative
assistant to a company president and a vice-president.
HONORS/PRESENTATIONS/AWARDS
Junior League mini grant recipient
Title II workshop on the use of calculators in the classroom
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
APEL
former club officer and building representive
References available upon request