Teacher, Manager, Deli

Kimberly Carroll

Professional Profile

I am hard working, tenacious and have a variety of interests. These qualities serve to help me interact with people, learn new things and love my job.

Career Summary

September 2009 – present

Zankel Fellow Math Buddy through Teachers College in New York NY

One on one tutoring of struggling students which taught how to identify and elucidate student difficulties and alternative conceptions in 6th grade mathematics

Design of work packets that focused on student difficulties which served to develop and individual understanding of each student and focus on how different students learn

Creation of written individualized evaluations for which a sense of student abilities and difficulties, progress made and progress that could be made was necessary

May 2007- present

Research Assistant at Princeton University in Princeton NJ

Aid in creation of inquiry based classroom activities that are being used in NJ and Africa to develop inquiry skills in students, which has carried over into personal lesson planning

Lead workshops in questioning to help students understand importance and mechanics of scientific questions

Lead workshops in social aspects of science to connect students' concept of science to the “real world”

Technical design and implementation of current scientific experiments so that they could be brought to students which has helped to understand how to scale projects to students specific academic needs

September 2008 – May 2009

Teachers Assistant at Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ

Co-ordinate labs and tutorials for students, with substantial TA-students contact which helped to gain experience in design and implementation of lab activities and problem sets

Provide office hours for students which provided the unique opportunity to translate a student's one-on-one work to helping them succeed in full classes

Weekly meetings with other TAs to discuss students to create some more tailored lessons for student difficulties

Grading students work with substantial written feedback which helped to understand how to identify student difficulties and intervene to rework alternative conceptions

June 2004-June 2009

Manager at Quick Chek food stores in Morris Plains NJ

Organize shifts and aid in schedule making and hiring, which taught personal responsibility and organization skills

Money management, which required knowledge of basic mathematics

Grocery orders which required being able to see patterns in consumption

Education

2009- Present Teachers College, Columbia University- New York, NY

Master of Arts in Science Education- Physics, May 2010

2005-2009 Rutgers University-New Brunswick NJ

Bachelor of Arts in Physics and History, May 2009

Awards & Fellowships

Zankel Fellowship (listed under career summary)-

Prestigious award granted by Teachers College. Requires a year long commitment to four students in a Harlem school, complete with student evaluations, regular design of student activities and a year long project with students.

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