English Teacher School

ERRIC JOSEPH BROWN

Av. Libramineto ***, Iztacihuatl y Magisterio, Mineral de la Reforma 42180.

[ PH. 771-***-****] *********@*******.***

SUMMARY

I am an English teacher with over ten years of teaching experience. I believe in having an active classroom with reading comprehension and superb writing in order for my learners to understand what they read and how to communicate their points across in a logical and concise manner.

EXPERIENCE

TEACH LATIN AMERICA (2016-2018) English Teacher / Mexico City, Mexico

Taught middle school and high school English to English-speaking students in Mexico City. I also was trained and later became faculty advisor to Model United Nations Debate students. I taught grammar, as well at International Baccalaureate Classes to eleventh and twelfth grade students. I taught Middle Years Program to seventh and eighth grade students.

EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM (2008-2016) English Teacher / Baton Rouge, LA

I taught: reading comprehension, test-taking strategies, and writing to my students. Eighty percent of my students passed the English/ Language Arts portion of the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) test. I was English Department head helping the English teachers with professional development and writing activities for students. I helped Title 1 students with get Up-to-Speed with their reading comprehension and grammar so that they could better understand what they were reading and how to communicate what they want to write so that they could move on to their correct grade. Drilling and repetition made this possible.

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 2013 English Instructor/Baton Rouge, LA

I was English Instructor for students from Brazil under the direction of Dr. Barbara Carpenter. I helped the foreign students assimilate in America as well as spent time with them on weekends tailgating before football games. I showed the students various TOEFL exams studying the format and going over the questions.

Orizaba Valley University (UNIVO) (2011-2012) English Teacher / Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

I was an English teacher at the high school as well as English Instructor at the adjoining university. I taught beginning, fluent, and advanced classes in English. I tutored students in the afternoons and on Saturdays.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Grand Canyon University / Phoenix, Arizona, USA/ Master of Education 2010-2012

Pedagogy, Classroom Management, Teaching Literature, Philosophies of Teaching, Ethics in Teaching, SIOP Teaching. Success with Title 1 Students Across the Curriculum.

Southern University/ Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA/ Bachelor of Arts/ 2006-2007

Acting/ Voice/ Movement classes. General undergraduate classes.

Louisiana State University/ Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA/ 1990-1994

General Education requirements. Acting Improvisation, Scene Study, Shakespeare recitation, Reader's Theatre, American College Theatre Festival.

Theatrical Productions:

Monsieur Toussaint by Edouard Glissant/ Directed by Femi Euba - Christophe

San Antonio Sunset by Willie Holtz/ Directed by Scott Carr- Robert Johnson

Sizwe Bansi is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, & Winston Ntshona- Sizwe Bansi

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson/ Directed by Femi Euba- Seth Holly

ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

Southern University- Dean's List during Fall 2006 and Spring Semester 2007.

Outstanding Foreign Language Student (Southern University) Spanish 2006.

English teacher at Abelarde Rodrigues Elementary School in Orizaba, Veracruz. Southern University Community Service requirement.

Richard Weaver Award for Excellence in Acting- Texas Tech University (American College Theatre Festival) Sizwe Bansi is Dead.

Model United Nations Instructor (MUN)- students hold mock debates and learn the formalities of the United Nations. Students learn how to write a Position Paper, Resolution Paper, the history of the country they will be representing and how present their ideas to the General Assembly.

Writing Across the Curriculum- students write on a school-wide basis by having writing contests on: Why I am Thankful/ What the Future Holds for Me/ What My Country Means to Me/ Holidays in My Family.

Louisiana Education Assessment Program (LEAP)- I prepared the students for the standardized tests with reinforcement activities in the Buckle Down and Vocabulary for Achievement workbooks. Title 1 Students success with grammar and vocabulary.

Buckle Down Workbook

http://www.triumphlearning.com/buckle-down-to-the-common-core-state-standards-580.html

Vocabulary for Achievement Workbook

https://www.hmhco.com/search/shop?term=%22vocabulary%20for%20achievement%22&subcategory=vocabulary

I also introduced the students to Thinking Maps activities so that the students could become better essay writers. https://www.thinkingmaps.com/why-thinking-maps-2/

Louisiana Believes- LEAP Test Results (Broadmoor Middle School- East Baton Rouge Parish) https://www.zillow.com/baton-rouge-la/schools/broadmoor-middle-school-22774/

Hands-On Wednesday- Every Wednesday the classroom becomes a workshop. We create, catalogue, classify, review, explain, write, read, and speak. We create: posters, PowerPoint Presentations, essays in groups and then explain to the rest of the class what our assignment was; explain the topic to the class and then present it to the class. The class then evaluates the group as to whether they did answer the question on the assignment and were on task. No text books or workbooks are used on Wednesday. The students create their activity from what they have learned at that point.

REFERENCES

Andrew Ross (M. Ed.) Teachers Latin America (Mexico) ******.******@*****.***

Pachuca/ Mexico City/ Durango

Mona Collins (M. Ed) Capitol Elementary School ********@**********.***

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Jeffrey Katz (M. Ed) San Francisco State University *************@*****.***

Dr. Barbara Carpenter Southern University *****************@****.***

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Imelda Becerra (M. Ed.) Orizaba Valley University ********@*****.***.**

Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Dr. Femi Euba Louisiana State University ******@***.***

Department of Theatre/

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Contact this candidate