Joel

Podzikowski

(248) 462-5405
podzij01@gmail.com http://joelpodzi.weebly.com

Timeline Experience

PYP Homeroom Teacher – Third and Fourth Grade

Grade Level Coordinator – Third and Fourth Grade
Oberoi International School, Mumbai, India
✦ PYP Homeroom teacher
• Created transdisciplinary units in collaboration with a grade level team and single subject
specialists
• Facilitated student-led conferences
• Instructed students in co-teaching and collaborative models
August 2015 • Participated and certified in IB Workshops; Making the PYP Happen, Reading and Writing
- July 2018 through Inquiry, and The Role of Mathematics
• Conducted professional development workshops for differentiation in the classroom
✦ Grade Level Coordinator
• Led grade level meetings and collaborative planning sessions
• Facilitated the setting of team goals and monitored progress toward achievement
• Led a Professional Learning Community to improve the effectiveness of need-based reading
instruction
• Organized grade level events including; unit culminations, field trips, overnight residential trips
and year-end performances and conducted parent information sessions
• Mentored new team members and administered staff appraisals
• Organized substitution coverage for absent team members

Homeroom Teacher – Fourth Grade

Gems - Bradenton Prep Academy, Dubai, U.A.E.
✦ Classroom teacher of elementary core curriculum subjects
• Developed scope and sequence for thematic units in all core subject areas, which were based
on Common Core and American state standards
August 2013
• Established curriculum and procedures in the first year of BPAʼs inception
- July 2015 • Delivered an American curriculum to international students of over 30 nationalities
• Differentiated instruction for a large demographic of English language learners
✦ After School Activities
• Founded and lead Technology Workshop, an eight week course for parents and students to
learn how to safely and effectively use educative technology
• Coached soccer for elementary aged students

Guest Teacher
PCMI Willsub, Marine City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Long Term Guest Teacher
✦ Third Grade - Oxford Elementary, Oxford Schools — Jun 7 – 17, 2010
• Aligned lessons and class projects to grade level standards, finalized report cards
✦ Second Grade - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — Sep 7 - Oct 8, 2010
October 2009 • Designed the layout of the classroom and led curriculum night for parents
- July 2013 ✦ Third Grade - Oxford Elementary, Oxford Schools — Dec 9, 2010 - Mar 18, 2011
• Shared in an International Baccalaureate district professional development
✦ Resource Room - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — Feb 2 - Mar 9, 2012
• Created and managed schedule for special education students to meet IEP goals
✦ Resource Room - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — May 7 - Jun 8, 2012
• Acted as a caseload manager in easyIEP, wrote goals for student IEP review
✦ ASD Self-Contained Room - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — Feb 2 - May 7, 2013
• Educated students with moderate to severe autism
 Timeline Experience
International Baccalaureate Certification
✦ Reading and Writing Through Inquiry (cat 3)
• IB Asia/Pacific - Oberoi International School, Mumbai, India – Aug 21 - 22, 2015
August 2015
✦ Making the PYP Happen (cat 1)
- November 2017
• IB Asia/Pacific - Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai, India – Feb 24 - 26, 2017
✦ The Role of Mathematics (cat 3)
• IB Asia/Pacific - Oberoi International School, Mumbai, India – Nov 17 - 19, 2017

Additional Experiences
✦ After School Activity Leader - Bradenton Prep Academy, Dubai, U.A.E. – Oct 2013 - May 2015
• Parent and Student Technology Workshop
• Movie Making – 3rd to 6th grade
• Soccer Club – 3rd to 5th grade
✦ Boys on the Bike Founder and Head Coach — Summer 2012 and 2013
• Conceptualized and initiated the club for third, fourth, and fifth grade boys
October 2009 • Managed the club budget and developed the curriculum
- Present • Partnered with the Michigan Pink Tour to negotiate a registration for a 15 mile race
✦ Michigan Green Schools Coordinator - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools - 2012-2013
• Achieved Michigan Emerald School status
• Initiated and led the Lakeville Elementary Student Earth Club
• Conceptualized and organized the Courtyard Clean-up, a community event
✦ Title I Homework Club - Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — Mar 25 - May 23, 2013
• Scheduled all applicants and committed to after school tutoring of at-risk students

Summer 2010, Summer School Teacher

✦ Extended School Year Teacher - Oxford Schools — Jun - Aug 2012
Summer 2011
✦ Title I Summer School Teacher - Oxford Schools — Jun - Aug 2010 & Jun - Aug 2011
& Summer 2012
✦ Safety Town Teacher - Rochester Area Jaycees — Jul 2010 - Aug 2010

Timeline Education

Oakland University
Rochester, michigan, U.S.A.
✦ Bachelor of Science, Elementary Education - December 2012
• Graduated Cum Laude
January 2010 • State of Michigan Provisional Teaching Certification - Elementary K-5 all subjects
- December 2012 • Integrated Science grades 6-8 and Mathematics grade 6-8
Student Teaching
✦ Second grade — Lakeville Elementary, Oxford Schools — Fall 2012
• Developed lesson plans aligned with Common Core State Standards and participated in
district professional development on aligning curriculum with the CCSS

August 2004 Michigan State University

- May 2009 East Lansing, michigan, U.S.A.
• Mathematics and Integrated Sciences

Discipline Additional Qualifications

✦ Proficient in both Apple and Microsoft products and skilled in the use of; Microsoft Suite,
Google Suite, Adobe Photoshop, and iMovie
Technology ✦ Utilized for instructional purposes; Interwrite, Promethean Planet, Weebly, Everyday Math
Online, Skype, Microsoft Office, Google Earth, United Streaming, CPS clickers, document
camera, kindle e-readers, Interactive White Board, netbooks, Edmodo and iPads

✦ Skilled in reading assessment; Fountas and Pinnell, Rigby, Reading A - Z, and DRA
Assessment
✦ Informed in the DataWise process to improve student learning

Special ✦ Applied easyIEP to update student goals and complete semester progress reports
Education ✦ Experienced with students certified; EI, CI, ASD, LD and multiply disabled

International ✦ Lived and taught in India and the United Arab Emirates and have traveled extensively
Experience ✦ Experienced teaching and working with people from around the world
 Contact References

Kristy Gibson-Marshall, Principal

Lakeville Elementary School, 1400 E Lakeville Rd, Oxford, MI 48371
(248) 969-1850 - Email: kristy.gibsonmarshall@oxfordschools.org

Stephen Augeri, Head of School

OBeroi International School (JVLR Campus), Mumbai, India 400093
+91 8828424973 - Email: stephen.augeri@oberoi-is.org

Joel Neil McWilliam, Head of School

Podzikowski OBeroi International School (OGC Campus), Mumbai, India 400063
+91 904428424973 - Email: neil.mcwilliam@oberoi-is.org
(248)462-5405
podzij01@gmail.com
Michael Bailey, Assistant Principal
Washington Int. School, 1690 36th Street NW, Washington DC 20007
(202) 495-7322 - Email: mike.bailey@wis.edu

Jeff Brown, Principal

Oxford Elementary School, 109 Pontiac Street, Oxford, MI 48371
(248) 969-5075 - Email: jeff.brown@oxfordschools.org

Joy Buckner, Director of Teaching and Learning

Al Barsha National School for Boys, Umm Sequim Street, Dubai
+971(56) 350-3118 - Email: joybuckner@gmail.com

Christopher Jackson, Third Grade Teacher

Saudi Aramco Expatriate Schools, udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia
+966(53) 742-3108 - Email: Csjack42@yahoo.com

Jessica Warrington, Second Grade Teacher

Lakeville Elementary School, 1400 E Lakeville Rd, Oxford, MI 48371
(248) 969-1850 - Email: jessica.warrington@oxfordschools.org

Amy Devin, Special Education ASD Teacher

Lakeville Elementary School, 1400 E Lakeville Rd, Oxford, MI 48371
(248) 969-1850 - Email: amy.devin@oxfordschools.org