Resume: At the Intersection of the Woods and the Classroom
Margaret Helen Roth
3133 Abell Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218
(321-698-2145)
[email protected]
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with Master’s of Arts in Teaching in May 2012 with certification in Secondary English, Middle School English Language Arts, and Middle School Science. Interned in a Baltimore inner-city 7th and 8th grade language arts classroom for the 2011-2012 school year. Graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with Bachelor’s Degree in May 2011. Education focused primarily on Modern and Post-modern Literature perspectives and studies of Geology and Environmental Ecology. Experience with outdoor and experiential education including whitewater kayaking, top-rope rock climbing, sea kayaking, swift water rescue, and designing and facilitating day and multi-day outdoor excursions and leadership development courses.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- NCATE Accredited Masters of Arts in Teaching, May 2012
- Bachelors of Arts, May 2011
- Majors: English and Environmental Earth Science
Cocoa Beach High School, Cocoa Beach, FL
- International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient May 2007, INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Patterson Park Public Charter School, Johns Hopkins University Masters in Teaching Internship, Baltimore, MD
Internship as Co-Teacher and Interventionist, September 2011 to May 2012
- Responsible for observing, reflecting on, and analyzing teaching practices and classroom techniques in a professionally critical manner with the goal of internalizing these observations for personal future utilization.
- Instructor of part to full 90 minute period lessons for advanced and basic level seventh grade students, and proficient eighth grade students.
- Implemented a successful year long arts integrated project-based learning technology intervention in the middle school classroom.Recorded and documented improvements and developed technology integration techniques through this Action Research Project.Research results were presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference and the Maryland Professional Development Schools Conference.
- Implemented a text analysis and test skill intervention with high need sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.Responsible for observing, reflecting on, and analyzing teaching practices and classroom techniques in a professionally critical manner with the goal of internalizing these observations for personal future utilization.
Johns Hopkins University Office of Experiential Education, Baltimore, MD
Outdoor Pursuits Whitewater Kayaking Trainer, January 2008 to Present
- Runs day and multi-day Whitewater Kayaking trips for Johns Hopkins underclassmen, graduate students, community members, and staff as Lead Instructor.
- Coordinates instructor trainings: Work to challenge and improve the abilities and limits of other instructors while building a strong community with a foundation for success.
- Supervises, trains and evaluates fifteen underclassmen student instructors: Work to mentor and develop the leadership, whitewater kayaking, swift water rescues and backcountry living skills of students.
Director of Operations, January 2008 to May 2011
- Responsible for Outdoor Pursuits Operations management including: staff training, overseeing office staff, communicating trip information with leaders, managing website and trip scheduling, organizing trips, managing medical database.
- Coordinated outdoor adventure trips and instructor trainings: Directly responsible for designing, managing, and executing trips, instructor trainings, special events. Approximately 80 events per year.
- Created interest and participation in outdoor trips.
- Assisted in payroll, marketing, accounting, funding proposals, and community integration.
- Assisted in conducting staff trainings with curriculum that includes: first aid scenarios, backcountry travel, backcountry cooking, leadership development, decision-making, and facilitation techniques.
Outdoor Pursuits Pre-Orientation Coordinator, May 2010 to August 2010
- Responsible for coordinating fourteen pre-orientation week-long adventure education trips for over one hundred incoming freshmen and forty instructors of various specialties including backpacking, canoeing, climbing, and whitewater kayaking.
- Responsible for marketing, payroll, accounting, logistical concerns, and coordinating with parents and students.
Outdoor Pursuits Summer Logistics Coordinator, May 2009 to August 2009
- Responsible for organization, maintenance, and coordination of all gear and logistical materials for fourteen pre-orientation week-long adventure education trips of various specialties.
Wilderness Instructor Training
Office of Experiential Education, Johns Hopkins University, January 2008 to Present
- Participated in extended wilderness based experiences that focused on backcountry and group facilitation skills, and ethical leadership. Each site location emphasized the development of a different technical skill set, all which include backcountry travel and living:
- Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness Medicine Institute - exp. Jan 2015
- Adult/Child CPR and AED, Wilderness Medicine Institute - exp. Jan 2015
- ACA Level III River Kayaking, American Canoe Association
ACADEMIC COURSE EXPERIENCE
Paperless Classroom, Methods of Teaching English in the Secondary Classroom, Methods of Teaching Reading in the Secondary Classroom, Calculus I-II, Chemistry I, Physics I-II, The Dynamic Earth, History of the Earth and its Biota, Population and Community Ecology, American Nightmares: Highsmith, Dick, Burroughs, English Literary Culture After 1945, Moral Philosophy, Postmodern American Fiction, Whitman and and Dickinson Poetry, Modernism and Postmodernism in Architecture, Intermediate French I-II. Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu Linux, and SMART Board Technologies.
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION FACILITATION HOURS
For me, the process of becoming an educator has been somewhat a long and winding road. Literally. During the four years of my undergraduate program at Johns Hopkins University, I became extremely involved in an experiential education and outdoor leadership program. This program took me wandering all over the dusty roads of West Virginia, along the trails of the Appalachian Mountains, and down rapids and valleys in a whitewater kayak throughout Maryland, D.C., and North Carolina. I entered this program as a teary eyed freshman and left it, well graduated from it, with a legacy and an entire book's worth of astonishing adventures and experiences. I still have an active role in this program and act as its Leadership Development Trainer for undergraduate instructors. The following documentation is an overview of these experiences and my facilitation hours logged so far on this ever continuing adventure.
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