Teacher Assistant Elementary School
Resume:
Katherine Geisler
Columbus, NC 28722
**********@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
Polk County Schools, Polk Central Elementary School- Teacher Assistant
August 2024- Current- Supervisor: Principal Mr. Adam Giles Assisting teachers in daily classroom work-typically running secondary reading groups and helping students with work when their teacher was otherwise engaged. Also assured students arrived at both school, and home safely every day.
Polk County Schools, Tryon Elementary School- Teacher Assistant/Bus Driver/ Library Specialist
August 2021- Current- Supervisor: Principal Dr. Cari Maneen Assisting teachers in daily classroom work-typically running secondary reading groups and helping students with work when their teacher was otherwise engaged. Also assured students arrived at both school, and home safely every day.
Working as the lead librarian, running the library by creating lesson plans, organizing materials for teachers, shelving, reorganizing books, working with all levels of students.
Polk County Schools, Saluda Elementary School- Teacher Assistant
January 2021- Current- Supervisor: Principal Dr. Cari Maneen Assisting teachers in daily classroom work-typically running secondary reading groups and helping students with work when their teacher was otherwise engaged. Worked with the school’s office/data manager, learning how to back her up when she was not available. Those tasks include: Attendance finalizing, coordinating teacher orders with the school district financial officer, website design and maintenance, designing achievement certificates for teachers/administration, and more... Source Office & Technology- Humans Resource Generalist January 2020-August 2020- Supervisor: Jeff Goergen Onboarding new employees using Paylocity as well as a third party background checker and abilities testing company. Also coordinated drug screening for all new employees.
Coordinated yearly benefits enrollment with BSwift services and helped all employees update benefits through Anthem, Legal Shield, AllState, Guardian, The Standard (401K)- Became familiar with 401K loan applications, terms, etc.
Assisted in running a complicated bi-weekly payroll in which there were Draws, Commissions, Mileages, and other fluctuating amounts each pay period.
Did Safety Training through Colorado Safety Association- giving our company a noted safety score for the State of Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment. Completed Additional OSHA training classes through JJKeller.
SKILLS
20+ years of Horsemanship
skills.
Handled care of 12 horses at
Wavertree Stables in Colorado
for all morning feedings/care
as well as a few evenings per
week and while owners were
on vacation.
Data Entry on several data
collection platforms
Microsoft Office
Knowledgeable
Paylocity Administrator
Trained
Photoshop and Adobe
Knowledgeable
Website Creator/ Admin
Fast learner of new computer
systems
Knowledgeable of many
different scanning, printing,
copying devices
Made sure that we were compliant with all of our vendor sites- Generated Certificates of Insurance as needed.
Employee health and welfare during CoVid-19- Completed safety/ HR training for working through a Pandemic. Completed additional training around all of the new laws regarding PTO/FMLA/FFCRA in light of the Pandemic.
More Responsibilities upon request...
All Bright Sanitation- Human Resources and Customer Service Specialist
June 2011- October 2018- Supervisor: Simon Geisler 720-***-**** Customer Service Responsibilities: answering customer phone calls, emails, and website comments, signing up service, taking online payments, cancelling or transferring service.
Human Resources Responsibilities: in charge of keeping all personnel files up to date, including keeping track of pertinent DOT information, any and all benefits information, payroll, etc. I created all employment ads, and conducted all first round interviews.
Bookkeeping Responsibilities: including accounts reconciliations and all banking needs. Helped design, printed and sent off all customer bills (some monthly invoices, some weekly invoices, and billing postcards). Julie & Jeremiah Schlosser- Private, In-Home Nanny August 2012- May 2016- Supervisor: Julie & Jeremiah Schlosser Caring for two boys, beginning age 6 months and 3 years. Also caring for the family pet and the home. Duties included: Preparing breakfast, lunch, and two snacks, Diapering, Potty Training, Dishes and general clean-up. As they aged into school my duties became care for one boy and picking up and caring for a second boy after school.
Project Prepare 21st Century Grant, E.L. Foster Elementary School, Arvada, CO 80003 — Site Director
May 2011- July 2013- Supervisor: Debra Shirley
Assisted in writing grant proposals and attended 21st Century Grant meetings where we discussed the best uses for our grant money which in turn helped in writing even better grant proposals. Creating Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets for keeping track of attendance for the grant purposes, and tracking State provided snack for before school, after school, and summer programming.
Assisting in programs when teachers or their assistants were out. Handling all of the disciplinary actions for the students involved in the class. Creating flyers for class information.
Creating a lottery system for popular clubs.
Completing end of the year statistics for 21st Century using their compilation software and integrating my spreadsheets to streamline the process.
EDUCATION
Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO — Major in Behavioral Sciences: emphasis in Psychology, Minor: History August 2001- July 2007
Worked my way through school. Part-time student while working nearly full time. Found a passion for Psychology and added my love of WWII history to round out my Behavioral Sciences degree. LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, proficient in
Spanish and American Sign
Language, currently learning
German.
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