Michael Johnson

Education and Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts | The College of Idaho                                                                      May 2015

               Major: Literature Studies                Minor: Education

                                      Related coursework: Psychology

Certifications | Expected Certification                                                                    June 2016 

               Standard Secondary:

                         English: 6-12                 Psychology: 6-12

Teaching Experience

• Approximately 3-5 years of teaching in a volunteer based settings.

Planning and Preparation

• Collaborated well with Sophomore ELA teachers during 1-year internship at Skyview High School in Nampa.

• Planned with assessments, activities and units as a collaborative group.

• Participated and actively engaged in 504 and IEP meetings.

Environment and Instruction

• Effectively used time management skills: able to handle multiple tasks in a timely manner.

• Highly adept at enacting a technology driven assignment/unit.

• Actively able to develop multiple layouts of a classroom for a variety of different tasks, planning for individual and group activities.

Responsibility

• Participated in community building events during the year-long internship at Skyview, including chili cook offs, tailgating and other events.

• Attended a number of different professional development opportunities, such as ELA verticals, and other TeachIdaho events.

• Recorded, and planned actions based on those records, interactions, developments and communications with parents, students and peers.

Field Experience

Student Intern | Skyview High School                                                    Aug 2015 – May 2016

• Co-taught, with my lead teacher, six classes of Sophomore ELA students

• Individually taught full units, segments and class periods, of Sophomore ELA students

Observer | Caldwell High School                                                                 Feb 2014 – May 2014

• Observed a Sophomore ELA teacher for nearly 30 hours

• Taught a few lessons relating to World War II using vocabulary, articles and technology for writing

Observer | Nampa High School                                                                   Jan 2013 – May 2013

• Observed a Sophomore ELA teacher for 25 hours

Interests

• Clubs and extra-curricular activities including chess and other board or card games, computers, narrative/story writing.

• Leadership and committee positions, so that it may be possible to further help students to high achievements.

• American Sign Language, in which I have a good basis, in order to have a basic knowledge of conversations.