APRIL HALSTEAD

Curriculum mapping and design: CCCS standards, objectives, specific skills (based on Bloom's Taxonomy),
strategies and activities, and formal and summative assessments.
• Formatting long-term and short-term lesson planning
• Differentiation evaluation based on student needs and growth
Business Management & Social Studies IB Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Created curriculum based on knowledge and understanding, investigation, communication and critical
thinking
• Developed and facilitated lesson plans for content constructed on criteria and skill level for the
International Baccalaureate Curriculum
• Evaluate students’ work through varies formative and summative assessments to measure student
growth

Created, prepared, and delivered lesson plans
• Helped students to learn the content using different methods
• Provided formal and informal assessment

Taught middle school-aged students reading, grammar, writing and social studies, based upon the
standards set by the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Created, Planned and Implemented lesson plans
• Analyzed student data from formative and summative assessment to create a student-centered learning
environment and to provide differentiation
• English Department Chair - Responsible for the needs of all English teachers, acted as the liaison for the
distribution and training of new policy and procedures
• School leadership member: created ways to engage students, parents, and the community
Skills:
• Online teaching - instructing students using various distance learning techniques. Focus: delivering content,
handling connectivity issues, maintaining and updating student records, providing tutorials and resources,
assessing class assignments and assessments.
• Ability to work with a variety of students with different learning abilities and styles using kinetics and
technology
• Proficient in Google Suite+, Microsoft Office 365 Program, other systems such as PowerSchool, ManageBac,
Schoology, and Achievement 3000
Additional Experiences and Activities:
• After school program coordinator- supplementing student learning (Renaissance program) through extra
reading skills practice
• The Sponsor of Model UN student club
• International Baccalaureate proficient