Customer Service High School

Scott Stephen Powers

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Carrollton, Texas 75007

972-***-**** (home)

*********@*******.***

Professional Credentials:

Texas State Board for Educator Certification;

English as a Second Language (PK-12): Valid to 2012;

Science (Grades 4-8): Valid to 2012.

Career Experience:

2000-2009: Classroom Teacher: Dallas ISD. Middle

school Science teacher. Taught all middle school grades (6-

8), especially all levels of ESL students (English-language

learners). Career highlights include helping to write original

items for the district’s Benchmark Testing program; serving

as Campus Instructional Leader for both the Science and

ESL departments; conducting Professional Development for

Science curriculum rollout and Character Counts®; and

coordinating academic extracurricular activities.

Prior work experience includes restaurant and retail business

management. Duties included customer service at all levels; employee

hiring, training, scheduling and evaluation; inventory management,

projecting, and ordering from multiple suppliers; business and

government reporting; and facility maintenance.

Education:

Bachelors Degree: University of Texas at Dallas. Major:

Literary Studies (summa cum laude); minor: Teacher

Certification, Secondary English and History.

Honors project: A Teaching Guide to Poetry for the

Reluctant High School Student. Undergraduate GPA: 3.902.

Masters Degree (not yet complete): UT-Dallas,

Interdisciplinary Studies (6 hours); Texas Womans

University, ESL Education (12 hrs.). Postgraduate GPA (to

date): 3.93.

Professional Skills:

Written: Academic Writing Scores: TASP: 300/300, GRE:

5.5/6.0 (86th percentile). Consistently demonstrate

exceptional communication skills, particularly when writing.

Command an expansive vocabulary, and creative and

concise composition style. Proficient in writing and critiquing

academic, fiction and nonfiction, legal and business styles.

Verbal: GRE: 620 (87th percentile). Speak clearly and

correctly in many different settings. As a classroom teacher

and corporate trainer, able to reach diverse audiences of

various learning levels. Adept with numerous speaking styles,

including informative, persuasive and humorous. Equally

effective in impromptu and prepared speaking situations.

Supervisory: Evaluate work product objectively, but with

emphasis on positive reinforcement and respectful and

constructive criticism. Tendency to rise to leadership roles in

small group settings, while respecting input and opinions

from colleagues and students alike.

Personal Information: Married, father of two boys. Cub

Scout Den Leader. Reader, writer, musician. Other hobbies

include sports (disc and “traditional” golf), and raising and

training my two Black Lab puppies.

Professional and personal references are available

upon request.

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