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Visual Arts & Crafts Instructor
St. Clare's School
New York, NY
2017 - Present (7 years)
Create rigorous curriculum that emphasized art creation, critical thinking, and self-expression aligned to state learning standards.
Instructed students on making different craft items using materials like fabric, paper, and recycled items.
Taught students fine art skills such as still life drawing, oil pastels, and acrylic paintings techniques blended with contemporary styles.
Students incorporated writing to reflect on their art and the process through artist statements.
Students presented their finished pieces at the end of each unit in class-wide critiques and to the community at the end of each semester in semiannual art fairs.
Positively impacted lessons by using smart board, computers, video clips, cameras, games, and music.
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Foreign Language Teacher (Spanish)
St. Clare's School
New York, NY
2017 - Present (7 years)
Provide language lesson development and delivery.
Schools field trip to a Spanish restaurant for students to practice their learning.
Hands-on activities to encourage active student participation, involvement, and teamwork.
Incorporating cultural components into the curriculum to diversify and expand learning material for all ability-level students.
Inspired students to be actively interested in Spanish and other foreign languages; followed schemes of work and promoted aspects of personal development related to Spanish at all key stages.
Incorporating Google Classroom and linked online resources.
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Graphics and Design (After School Instructor)
St. Clare's School
New York, NY
2017 - Present (7 years)
Introduced students to sketchbooks to enable creative sketching and showing students that design is much more than working on a computer.
Prepared individuals to think critically about developing graphic designs elements.
Organized and implemented effective strategies and monitored student achievement in enrichment program
Taught brainstorming, researching, sketching, work process, execution, final product.
Help students research their project focusing on plagiarism-free work and guide them throughout their design process with constructive criticism to help them assemble a solid and successful piece.
Helped students on digital imaging, copy/paste, layout, and design using photoshop, illustrator, Indesign, and Procreate.
Photography, Designed visual display advertisements with pictures, confined with logo design, re-branding production, and screen-printing display signs.
Creating digital and print marketing materials for businesses and non-profit organizations, involving digital design, photography and prints.
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Operations Coordinator / Enrollment Admin
Immaculate Conception School
New York, NY
2015 - Present (9 years)
Coordinated state health and safety inspections, ensuring the school was meeting all requirements.
Maintained computer and physical filing systems.
Planning/execution of several events and presentations.
Administrative support, including coordinating calendars, activities and expenses reports.
Created and instructed the after-school arts and craft program.