Amanda C.

Baker
667 Stover Court, Hummelstown, PA 17036 (215)872-8710 acbaker52@gmail.com OBJECTIVE To obtain a technology specialist position in the education field that will allow me to leverage my teaching experience utilizing technology in a secondary English Language Arts classroom to create an engaging media rich environment for students while using sound instructional strategies to benefit and instruct other teachers EDUCATION Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Learning Technologies Master of Science Technology Specialist Certificate Learning Technologies Internship with Donegal School District Current GPA: 4.0/4.0 Albright College Secondary Education Teaching Certificate Bachelor of Arts in English Summa Cum Laude Final GPA: 3.9/4.0 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Donegal School District Mount Joy, PA Secondary English Teacher August 2008 Present Planned engaging technology rich lessons for grades 9, 11 and 12 at literacy, academic and honors levels Engaged students in higher order thinking skills through the use of projects rooted in classroom technology Maintained interactive Moodle courses for all classes Taught Keystone Remediation sessions Launch team member of Literacy Design Initiative at Donegal High School Participated in the Classrooms for the Future Initiative Maintained educational technology resource for teachers Assisted the junior class in fundraising and planning and execution of the prom as junior class advisor North Penn School District Lansdale, PA Substitute Teacher October 2007 June 2008 Day to day experience in classrooms at all grade levels and subjects Twin Valley High School Elverson PA Student Teacher Grade 12 October December 2006 Exeter Junior High School Exeter, PA Student Teacher Grade 8 September October 2006 North Penn High School Lansdale, PA Spring-Ford High School Royersford, PA Music Instructor November 2004 2007 Taught and monitored performance of technique and music and to the mallet players of the North Penn Marching Knights, North Penn Percussion Ensemble, and Spring Ford Marching Band TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES Blogs, Podcasts, PowerPoint, Web based student content creation, Moodle, Collaboration tools, Google Apps, Interactive White Board, Screencasting, Wikis, Formative assessment tools, Media production, General knowledge of Adobe Suite

Harrisburg, PA August 2013 August 2013 May 2013 August 2013 Reading, PA May 2007 May 2007