Jeremy Lo1709 Lamont Street

Washington, DC 20010Phone: 570-780-7045

e-mail: catchrook@gmail.com

EDUCATION ____________________________________________________________________

Masters of Sciences/LiteracyJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 2010 – present30 credits completed.

Master of Sciences/Special Education University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 2006 Bachelor of Sciences/Elementary Education-Minors/Spanish and Psychology University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 2001 – 2005

Professional Summary ___________________________________________________________ Eight Grade Special Ed. Teacher at Murray Hill Middle School 2008 - present Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Grade Special Ed. Teacher at North Broward Preparatory 2006-2008 Seventh and Eighth Social Sciences and English Teacher 2005 – 2006 Presenter at the ACEI National Conference 2010 Howard County Summer School Educator 2010 Headmaster for Summer Institute for the Gifted 2008-2009 National Junior Honor Society Advisor 2007-Present Academic and Organizational Tutor 2006-Present Advisor for the National Geography Bee 2007 Created the curriculum for North Broward’s Success Academy 2007 Committee Member for the Middle School Interdisciplinary Unit 2007 Created a National Video Conference between Dr. Tata Mbugua of Kenya, the North Pocono School District,

and the North Broward School District 2006 - 2007 Counselor for At-Risk Students at the University of Success Summer Camp 2003-2006 Created the Latino Outreach Program for the Albright Memorial Library 2005 - 2006 Librarian’s Assistant for the Albright Memorial Library 1999-2006

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008 to Present Middle School Special Education Teacher, Murray Hill Middle School, Laurel, MDDuties include co-teaching, differentiating, and case managing students in seventh and eighth grade at Murray Hill Middle School. Special educators are expected to co-construct and co-develop content for seventh and eight grade English and Math with a general educator to ensure best practices are being used in the classroom. Other duties include managing a caseload of students with disabilities to insure that their accommodations and modifications are being met, as well as, maintain the compliancy of their Individualized Education Plan. This includes collecting the data utilized to measure the students’ success in achieving their IEP goals. This requires me to work with educators from other subject areas such as Science, Social Studies, and Reading. It is also expected that I manage the teaching assistants and close adult supervisors on my grade level which requires frequent contact and team meetings. During my time at Murray Hill Middle School, I have also been active in ALT-MSA which is a standardized test which requires students with significant disabilities to create a portfolio of work that demonstrates skill mastery on objectives based on the regular MSA state standardized test. This process is yearlong. I have also been active in the after-school tutorial services, teaching remediation courses in both Math and Reading.

2006 to 2008 Middle School Special Education Teacher, North Broward Preparatory School, Coconut Creek, FL

Duties included teaching sixth, seventh, and eight grade Social Sciences inside the Lighthouse Point Academy. The Lighthouse Point Academy is a Special Education Academy attached to the North Broward Preparatory Schools. Duties attached to this position were to use a wide array of multi-modal instructional strategies that were based in databased best practices targeted for the individualized instruction of each student. As of 2007, I have also taken on a sixth class for Honor Students in World Cultures II. Further, as a college preparatory program, additional duties were the implementation of Florida standards-based curriculum, introducing Internet and research skills on a daily basis, and project-based activities. Responsibilities also included bi-weekly uploading of students’ grades to Edline from GradeQuick, which consisted of boiler plates and student comments, weekly on-line assignment pages, lunch duty, hallway proctoring, daily advisory instruction, weekly after school tutoring, curriculum mapping, and developing yearly Social Sciences curriculum.

2007 Summer School Teacher, North Broward Preparatory School, Coconut Creek, FLDeveloped a summer school curriculum for new 5th grade students entering into the 6th grade. Students were introduced to computer skills, middle school curriculum, the school’s Honor Code System, and other expectations for middle school.

2005 - 2006 Middle School Social Science and English Long Term Substitute, Howard Gardner School for Discovery, Scranton, PA

Instructed and developed curriculum for seventh and eight grade Social Sciences and English. In English, students were taught the 6+1 Writing traits, five-paragraph essay writing, and process writing. They were introduced to Shakespeare’s work through reenactment of his famous play, Julius Caesar. They were also introduced to a wide array of multicultural literature, poetry, fiction, and short stories. In Social Sciences, students were taught how to access web information, summarize, and cite resource information from various sources. Curriculum also included World Cultures and American History that relied heavily on teacher created materials as the school followed a multi-modal pedagogy.

COMPUTER SKILLS Tienet Teacherease Aspen Atlas Rubicon Curriculum Mapping GradeQuick Edline FrontPage Microsoft Office PageMaker Inspiration Concept Mapping Holt Internet Online textbook Phschool Internet Online textbook

Brainpop United Streaming Computer Projector TV-ator Interactive Electronic Whiteboard

(Smartboard and Mimioboard) Web Quests Blogging Adobe Acrobat Professional Adobe Photoshop Podcasting Alphasmart Assistive Speaking Devices

Community Service

Neighborhood Food Drive, Laurel, MD Advised Murray Hill students in creating awareness of poverty within the neighborhood and collecting

goods from community stores.

Save the Bay, Laurel, MD Advised Murray Hill students in creating awareness on preserving the Chesapeake Bay region.

Autism Walk-a-Thon, Coconut Creek, FL Advised North Broward Advisory students in collecting funds for our team to be sponsored in an Autism

Walk-a-Thon at Nova Southeastern University.

Tropical Rainforest Coalition, Coconut Creek, FL Advised North Broward Advisory students in collecting enough funds to buy acres of rainforest in

Balam Na, Belize.

Las Lomas de Primavera Project, Las Lomas de Primavera, Jalisco, Mexico Created a program with two fellow Education students to fund and build a library for the school of the

village, Las Lomas de Primavera in Jalisco, Mexico.

CELE, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico After-school program run by UNIVA, a university located in Guadalajara Mexico.