Jenna Hood

 

 

OBJECTIVE               Secondary-level English Teacher

§         Provide students with an imaginative education thoroughly grounded in the curriculum with a focus on the realities of higher education and the challenges of the workplace.

§         Prepare students to become global citizens using a mixture of innovative and traditional instruction methods that will teach them the needed communication, creative thinking and writing skills for success in an every changing world.

§         Enhance teaching methods by use of experience gained from a background in the publishing and business world.

                                   

                                   

EDUCATION              Bachelor of Science, English Education, 2002

                                    Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia

 

Bachelor of Arts, English and History, 1995

                                    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

                                   

                                   

CERTIFICATION       Georgia State Teaching Certification in English, 7-12 (effective August 2002)

                                    Georgia State Probationary Teaching Certification in Social Studies, 7-12 (effective August 2002)

                                   

                                   

FIELD                         Student Teaching

EXPERIENCE            My responsibilities will include:

·         Preparation of objectives and lesson plans for classes, utilizing a collaborative setting.

·         Extensive instruction in writing strategies and techniques.

·         Facilitation of classroom discussion.

·         Collaborative work with supervising teacher, administration and parent groups to further student education.

·         Instruction, focusing on critical reading and continuing literacy beyond the classroom.

 

                                    Marietta City High School, November 2001 – Observation, supervised student teaching

                                    Dobbins Middle School, Fall 2000 - Observation

                                   

                                   

LEADERSHIP            University Women’s Cooperatives (now Student Heritage Houses)

University of Texas at Austin:

NASCo (North American Students for Cooperation)/CCDC (Campus Cooperative Development Cooperation) Representative, Fall 1994-Spring 1995

House Manager – Valhalla Cooperative, Fall 1992-Spring 1993

                                    University Women’s Co-op Secretary, Fall 1990-Spring 1992

                                   

                                   

EMPLOYMENT         Promotions/Trade Show Coordinator, Intertec Publishing (May 1998 - April 2001)

EXPERIENCE            Publicist, Longstreet Press (April 1997 - December 1997)

Publicity Assistant, Penguin USA (now Putnam Penguin) (February 1996 - December 1996)

                                   

                                   

PROFESIONAL         NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English (student member)

AFFILIATIONS           PAGE, Professional Association of Georgia Educators (student member)

                                   

                                   

COMPUTER              IBM and Macintosh

SKILLS                       Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, PowerPoint, Excel, QuarkXpress, Internet, E-mail