matthew maynard

* ELA and Grammar Instructor, 7th Grade * A growing charter school focused on changing students' futures in one of New York's lowest income neighborhoods * Create rigorous, differentiated lessons for a heterogeneous classroom * Maintained a classroom environment of rigor and success * Co-wrote 10th grade humanities curriculum using Understanding by Design * Planned fieldtrips to enrich students classroom experiences * Guided a small, all male advisory discussing social issues and community service * Member of team examining and implementing new Common Core Standards into curriculum

* ELA and Grammar Instructor, 7th Grade * A growing charter school focused on changing students' futures in one of New York's lowest income neighborhoods * Create rigorous, differentiated lessons for a heterogeneous classroom * Maintained a classroom environment of rigor and success * Co-wrote 10th grade humanities curriculum using Understanding by Design * Planned fieldtrips to enrich students classroom experiences * Guided a small, all male advisory discussing social issues and community service * Member of team examining and implementing new Common Core Standards into curriculum

* 4 Title I learning community * Worked to rehabilitate learning in emotionally disabled and low skilled students * Assisted in the development and implementation of IEP's through instruction and monitoring behavior * Mediated and diffused conflicts and behavior outbursts * GRANTS RECEIVED * DonorsChoose.org * Over $1400 received towards books and materials for my classroom

Summer 2004 Intensive study of British Literature and History CERTIFICATION Grade 7 - 12 Initial English Language Arts Certification: August 2009

Guatemalan Language Study Program: La Antigua, Guatemala, January 2009