Mathematics Teacher
Resume:
JUNE SAUNDERS
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Margaree Harbour, CB, NS
B0E 2B0
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PROFILE
Certified and award-winning mathematics teacher with 28 years of teaching experience in both the public and private school systems. Proven ability to engage student interest in mathematics through effective experiential learning techniques. Active and keen volunteer with extracurricular student activities including athletic coaching and chaperoning various outdoor educational activities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Summit Academy - Bedford, NS 2021 - 2022
Middle School Math Teacher
Lakefield College School – Lakefield, ON
2018 - 2019
Interdisciplinary Studies Teacher - Environmental Science & Construction Technology Teacher – Grade 11
Extra Curricular Activities:
● Set building instructor for musical Chicago
● Junior Boys Soccer Coach (Fall 2018)
● Senior Girls Hockey Team Coach (Winter 2018 – 2019)
● Senior Girls Soccer Team Coach (Spring 2019)
● Dog Sledding Trip Chaperone (Winter 2019): Four days of winter camping and dog sledding in northern Ontario.
Lower Canada College - Montreal, QC 1998 - 2016
Mathematics Teacher - Grades 7 to 11
●Taught students within the guidelines of the Quebec Ministry of Education (MELS).
Key Accomplishments:
●Grade 8 Enriched Mathematics Teacher (2009 - 2016): Proposed and developed a grade 8 enriched mathematics course (up to 20 students) based on a project-learning model. Projects’ themes include community service, gliders, catapults, sustainable building and renewable energy. All projects are hands-on, filled with real-world mathematics, community involvement and a start-to-completion process. Resources come from within the community and involve airplane pilots, charitable organizations, sustainable building architects, former industrial arts teachers and renewable energy experts.
●Middle School Numeracy Specialist (2010 - 2011): Proposed and created a specialized position and program that examined the numeracy abilities of middle school students entering grade 7 and leaving at the end of grade 8. The program included a personally developed diagnostic test and also changed the school’s time commitment to students requiring special accommodations. Persuaded administration to hire qualified math specialists to help students with math weaknesses.
●The Jack Layton Award for Youth in Sustainability – Achieved honorable mention for a personally developed student sustainable building and renewable energy project (May 2012). Published in Our Canada magazine’s December/January 2012/2013 edition.
●Recognized by LCC for designing math projects that allow and require students to be creative and imaginative. Projects do not include step-by-step lists of procedures to follow but instead give students materials and a task to complete. How they complete that task is up to them, the teacher's “apron strings” are cut.
Extra Curricular Activities:
●Middle School Out-Door Ed Club (2014 - 2016): A 2-night hiking/camping trip for grade 7 and 8 students. To qualify for this trip students are required to complete five workshop sessions on hiker/camper essentials.
●Duke of Edinburgh Trip Chaperone (2010 - 2012):
Silver trips: Local 3-day hikes.
Gold trips: Five days of service activities and five days of trekking in Peru. Four days of snowshoeing, winter camping and dog sledding in northern Quebec.
●Grade 7 Orientation Week Committee Chair (2010 - 2012): A 4-day workshop that was developed to assist students with the transition to middle school (grade 7). Special attention was drawn to the age groups’ brain function and Executive Functioning skills.
●Senior Girls Soccer Team Coach (1998 - 2016): Team competed in the Greater Montreal Athletic Association (GMAA) league as well as in the independent school CAIS national tournament. Achievements include: 2016 GMAA division 1 champions, 2012 CAIS finalists, 2011 CAIS national champions, and 2008 GMAA division 1 champions.
●Student House Activities Co-coordinator (2005 - 2009): Organized middle-school activities for inter-school team (house) events. Eight houses compete in various activities for house points. Activities included food and toy drives, spelling bees, sports competitions, and two full school half-day competitions involving various relay races.
●Middle School Leadership Coordinator (2006 - 2009): Initiated and developed a middle-school leadership program comprised of different student portfolios including the environment, community service, yearbook, photography, communications and athletics. Coordination involved holding weekly meetings with students to help generate activities for the middle school.
●Junior Round Square Representative (2006 - 2009): Participated in a worldwide association of schools that shares a commitment beyond academic excellence to personal development and responsibility. As LCC representative, participated in annual five-day, student-led conference that focuses on different themes that help empower today’s youth.
●Senior Girls Hockey Team Coach (1999 - 2001 & 2013): Competed in GMAA league, finalists in 2000.
Canso High School - Canso, NS 1997 - 1998
Mathematics Teacher - Grades 8 to 12
●Taught mathematics to students with class sizes ranging up to 30 students.
●Member of Nova Scotia’s Mathematics Commission: Selected by the Department of Education to examine the mathematics curriculum and how it was taught in Nova Scotia. Provided workshops for math teachers that presented ideas for new teaching approaches.
●Senior Boys Soccer Team Coach: Coached senior boys soccer team (grades 10-12).
Frankfurt International School - Frankfurt, Germany 1996 - 1997
Mathematics Teacher - Grades 7, 9 and 10
●Taught mathematics to students with class sizes ranging up to 20 students.
●Senior Girls Soccer Team Coach: Created and coached soccer team that continues today. Team participated in tournaments locally, and in Switzerland and Austria.
●Community Service Project Leader: Co-coordinated a two-week community service project trip to South Africa that included 25 students. Trip included building a two-room school in the Kalahari Desert.
●Student Bike Trip Chaperone: Organized and led a 500 km, 1-week student bike trip (6 students) through Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Munich International School - Munich, Germany 1995 - 1996
Mathematics Teacher - Grades 8, 11 IB (Methods) and 12 IB (Studies)
●Taught mathematics to students with class sizes ranging up to 20 students.
●Girls Athletics Coach: Coached senior girls soccer team and junior girls basketball team.
●Community Service Project Leader: Organized and led a 1-month community service project trip to Kenya and Tanzania (2 students). The trip revealed the challenges of travel in third world countries and exposed the poverty and devastation in these countries. The scope of help required was learned along with the realization that attaining impact could be personally achieved through even the smallest gesture.
Halifax Grammar School - Halifax, NS
1991 - 1995
Head of Mathematics (1993 - 1995)
Mathematics Teacher (1991-1995)
●Taught mathematics to students with class sizes ranging up to 20.
●Girls Athletics Coach: Coached senior girls soccer team and junior girls basketball team.
EDUCATION
●Sustainable Building Project (The Zero House) 2017
Endeavour Centre – Peterborough, Ont
●Heritage Carpentry 2016 -2017
NSCC – Lunenburg Campus, Bridgewater, NS
●Master of Teaching Mathematics (MTM) 2004 - 2008
Concordia University - Montreal, QC
●Bachelor of Education – specialized in secondary math. 1989 - 1991
Acadia University - Wolfville, NS
●Bachelor of Arts - major in mathematics, minor in French. 1985 - 1988
Mount Saint Vincent University - Halifax, NS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
●Wilderness First Aid Course 2018
●OHS and WHIMIS certification 2016
●Straw-Bale Workshop Participant (7-days) 2012-14-16
●Executive Functioning Skills Workshop (LCC) 2012, 2013
●Wilderness First Aid Course 2010
St. John Ambulance – Montreal, QC
●Project-based Learning Conference 2010
Summer Institute, High Tech High – San Diego, CA
COACHING SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
●Soccer - Level 3 Coach 1990
Basketball - Level 1 Coach 1992 National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)
●Member Praunheim Professional Women’s Soccer team (Germany) 1996 - 1997
●Member of FC Bayern Semi-Professional Women’s Soccer team (Germany) 1995 - 1996
●Member of the Acadia Axettes CAIS National Champions 1989 - 1990
REFERENCES
Shauna Wall: Head of Summit Academy for Active Learning, Bedford, N.S.
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Rob Tipney: Former Head of Middle School at Lower Canada College, Montreal
Marc Tellier: Former board member at Lower Canada College, Montreal
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