Alexander Desrosiers

Experience

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  21st Century

  Sept 2011 - May 2013

  21st Century Group Facilitator

  Collaborated with colleagues to plan and lead various educational activity groups for 16 students of the 96 1st to 8th grade students, such as leading skillful cooperative group play, nutritional cooking, narrative writing, and one-on-one tutoring.

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  Fitchburg State University's Student Teaching Program

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Student Teacher

  Managed a classroom environment by assuming full responsibility of planning, grading, and instructing two third-grade classes of 25 students each for 16 weeks in mathematics, English language arts, U.S. history, geography, and science curriculum.

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  AmeriCorps NCCC/FEMA

  Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  Disaster Survivor Assistant

  Expediting the recovery of disaster survivors by responding on-site to resolve and/or mitigate immediate and long-term needs in a team-based environment with eight other 18-24 year olds on limited resources.

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  Mill City Grows

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2014

  Farm & Mobile Market Intern

  Harvesting, transplanting, seeding, watering, plant maintenance, winter preparation, Mobile Market logistics and sales

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  Zumba

  Nov 2014 - Mar 2015

  Zumba Group Instructor (21st Century Program)

  Lead 12 40-minute Zumba exercise classes per week to primary school children in an after school setting as well as one-on-one tutoring and homework assistance.

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  Peace Corps

  Mar 2015 - Nov 2015

  Education Peace Corps Volunteer

  Living within a rural community to collaborate with the local school system to share resources and strategies to develop a more efficient and successful student body, improving literacy and graduation rates of the elementary and middle school levels.

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  Zumba

  Dec 2015 - now

  Zumba Group Instructor

  Choreographing and leading weekly dance fitness instruction to groups of 10-25.

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  Murkland Elementary School

  Feb 2016 - May 2016

  ELL Tutor

  Collaboration with four classroom teachers to create differentiated instruction for newcomers and small group ELL instruction as a support tutor across three grades and three curriculum:- Fourth grade ELL writing intervention- Third grade ELL reading intervention through the LLI program- Second grade ELL math intervention

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  Boys & Girls Clubs of America

  Apr 2016 - now

  Education Room Tutor

  Guiding diverse range of Lowell public and charter school students in after school tutoring and homework assistance in the domains of math, ELA, and science, with a focus on non-native English speakers through bilingual or SEI instruction, assisting over 25 students per week.

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  Stoklosa Middle School Gateway Summer Program

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

  Summer School Instructor

  One month summer program specifically designed for students who have recently arrived to the United States either through immigration or refugee status.Lead 20 newcomer/refugee students in instruction on two science modules across multiple curriculum such as life and earth science, art, and physical education.

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  Stoklosa Middle School

  Aug 2016 - now

  English Language Learner Teacher

  Middle School ELA position targeting students with an average ACCESS score of 3 or lower in the domains of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.Responsibilities include preparing, planning, instructing, grading, and reviewing cumulative data to further guide the English Language Development instruction of over 60 students from 5th - 8th grade who fall in the previously mentioned ACCESS reading and writing score.

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  Chelmsford Community Education

  Sept 2016 - now

  Adult Introductory Spanish Language Teacher

  Designing and teaching two introductory levels of Spanish language curriculum based around vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, speaking, and pronunciation to groups of 25 adults.

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  New Field International Education

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  International Foreign Language Teacher

  Two week English-language summer camp classroom teacher of over 100 primary school students, aged 7 - 12, teaching six 45-minute daily classes of reading, dance and performance curriculum that lead up to co-directing a 90-minute talent showcase of all 240 summer camp participants.