- OBJECTIVE
- My goal is a position teaching biology and related subjects.
- CERTIFICATION
- I presently have a Florida Statement of Eligibility for Biology, grades 9-12.
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE, California
- From January 1996 to June 1998, I worked as a substitute in San Jose and
Santa Clara, California. I subbed for regular classes, advanced placement
classes, classes composed of ESOL students from many different cultures, and
classes at a continuation high school. Long term assignments included one
month teaching biology and six weeks for chemistry.
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE, Florida
- Since October of 1998, I have been substitute teaching in
Palm Beach County public schools.
The some of the high schools I have subbed the most at include Santaluces (contact
Assistant Principal Jim Krupa, ESOL Coordinatior Glenda Addington; or teachers
Mrs. Case-Sweeny, Ms. Rubow, Mrs. Egner or Mrs. Richman), Lake Worth High
(contact Mrs. J. Weedman, Mr. R. McCombs) and Royal Palm Beach High
(contact Mrs. McKinley, or Mr. Perrson).
Three recent classes I taught long term were a 48-member class of Applied
Math II, for the first three weeks of summer school in 1999 at Lake Worth
High; ESOL Math classes at Santaluces High for four weeks September 1999;
and Algebra 1A at Atlantic in April 2000.
- EDUCATION
- University of California, Irvine - graduated June 1977 with a BS in
Biological Sciences. This university has been rated in the top 50.
Palm Beach Community College - Currently, I am taking courses in education
to become fully certified. I will have completed all the course I need to become
certified by June, 2001.
- EDUCATION, Workshops
- "8 Kinds of Smart" (using Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theories
in the classroom) led by
Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., and sponsored by the
Palm Beach Literacy Coalition, October 23, 1999. I am still researching
this as a framework for instruction and creating lesson plans.
- CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS
- I am a member of the National Association
of Biology Teachers and the National Science
Teachers Association. Both these organizatons publish a magazine with
lessons and other useful information for teachers. I am also a member of the
Audubon Society.
- STRENGTHS
- My life experiences have taught me to be resourceful, self-reliant, and
flexible, as well as exposing me to several different cultures and
countries. By my twenty-second birthday, I had lived in four states in the
U.S. and in three other countries.
I also know the value of being a team player. As a sub, I have worked
successfully with many different personalities and situations.
I am a quick learner; I have taught myself how to use the Internet and to
program in HTML to create my own web site:
TeachOne.tripod.com. This site has links to other web sites I found during my
researches into several different areas that interest me or for web sites to use in
the classroom. I also have a PowerPoint Presentation, on the structure of DNA, which
is also available on the net. Go to
http://y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/mr_coleman_teacher and click on the folder
marked "Public".
- OTHER PREPARATIONS for Teaching:
- I am also preparing for teaching by collecting lessons and activities from
various sources. For instance, I have a growing collecting of articles photocopied
from back issues of periodicals like The American Biology Teacher
and The Science Teacher. I look for activities suitable for both the kinds
of students and the under-equiped classrooms I have encountered subbing in this
district.
- SPECIAL INTERESTS of mine include:
- Natural history and the environment, ecology and evolution,
critical thinking and scientific method, brain based learning,
multiple intelligences, the
Love and Logic discipline philosophy, using Power Point and other multimedia in
teaching, math in nature, science fiction and science in general.
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