College Assistant

Aziel Z. Brito Macín

** ***** **., ***********, ** 37415

Tel: 201-***-**** Email: *****.*****@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Looking for opportunities to challenge students while creating valuable learning experiences. Offering

experience in teaching in a variety of contexts, to different ages, and using a variety of technologies.

Dedicated to science studies and teaching.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Anticipated: May 2015

Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA

Major: Secondary Education in Chemistry and Biology

Cumulative GPA 3.639

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Chemistry and Biology Laboratory Teacher’s Assistant, Dordt College Spring 2012- Fall 2014

• lanned and directed activities for the students.

P

• ectured several laboratories.

L

• orked with students to answer questions and solving problems.

W

• irected a research project investigating what helps students learn better in a laboratory.

D

Tutor at the Academic Skills Center, Dordt College Fall 2013-Fall 2014

• elped students improve their problem solving skills.

H

• rovided advice to improve note taking and studying skills.

P

• xplained material according to the student’s needs and learning style.

E

• trengthened professional skills by building professional relationships with professors as

S

colleagues.

Revising and Rewriting of Laboratory Manuals, Dordt College Summer 2014

• esearched theories about learning in the laboratory.

R

• evised and rewrote laboratory manuals for two chemistry introductory laboratories.

R

• uilt a laboratory curriculum that encourages critical thinking.

B

• pplied results from action research study (done in the Fall of 2013) to the revision and rewriting

A

of the manuals.

VOLUNTEER/ACTIVITIES

Member of the Council of Research and Scholarship, Dordt College Spring 2013- Fall 2014

Presented Poster at the American Chemistry Society regional meeting October 2014

Wellspring Planning Committee, Dordt College Fall 2011- Spring 2014

Volunteer at Sioux Center Community Hospital and Health Center Fall 2012-July 2013

HONORS

Dordt College, ux Center, IA

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• ordt College Presidential Scholarship ll 2011-Present

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• ssink Science Scholarship ll 2014-Spring 2015

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• id and Carol Verdoorn Foundation Teacher Education Scholarship ll 2014-Spring 2015

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• ichard & Hendrika Zwart Scholarship; Physical Science Scholarship ll 2013-Spring 2014

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• ordt College Alumni Scholarship ll 2011-Spring 2012

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