Ashley Markel

Experience

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  Fieldstone Grill

  May 2008 - Dec 2010

  Server

  • Greeted guests and answered questions regarding menu options and reservations. • Assisted with upkeep of restaurant to ensure a welcoming environment for guests. • Provided exceptional service to guests and staff by communicating guest needs in a timely and respective manner. • Maintained a positive relationship with staff members.

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  LA's Best

  Mar 2011 - Aug 2011

  Program Worker

  • Designed, planned, and facilitated recreation, education and enrichment activities for more fifty second to fifth grade students. • Supervised participants to ensure a safe and organized program. • Assisted with the planning of special projects and events. • Attended staff development workshops, and facilitated summer enrichment programs.

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  Archdiocese of San Francisco

  Aug 2011 - Jul 2014

  Teacher

  • Instructed and assessed over 100 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in Science, Religion, Art, and Spelling. • Differentiated teaching, modified instruction, and developed interactive exercises and labs for thoughtful and supportive consultation and critical thinking skills. Created focused and purposeful lessons, stimulating discussions and journal writing. • Maintained a positive learning environment by establishing clear and consistent expectations and routines for student behavior and instruction. • Effectively implemented numerous research-based classroom management strategies, interventions, student centers, and thematic units. • Adapted lessons for advanced students and students with learning and hearing disabilities. • Facilitated study hall weekly for any students requiring additional support. • Planned and organized annual Science Fair in accordance with the San Mateo County STEM Fair, as well as aided in Student Government activities. Chaperoned events such as Math/Science/Physics Day at Great America, school dances, and Washington D.C./New York City Trip. Show less

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  Archdiocese of Chicago

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2016

  Teacher

  • Instructed and assessed over 100 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in English Language Arts and Religion. • Accommodated and modified instruction, assignments, and strategies for students with varying reading levels, learning disabilities, emotional impairments, hearing disabilities, and learning styles. Incorporated cooperative learning groups and writing centers with clearly defined roles. • Maintained a positive learning and behavior system by establishing clear, consistent, and structured expectations and routines with a positive behavior token economy, utilizing Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) with Class Dojo. • Created focused and purposeful lessons, stimulating discussions, vocabulary, grammar, and writing instruction in accordance with the Common Core Curriculum, Lucy Calkins writing program, Café, Daily Five, and Fountas & Pinnell Literacy. • Facilitated Fountas & Pinnell leveled literacy intervention, benchmark assessments, and guided reading. • Formulated specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-targeted (S.M.A.R.T.) goals as a member of Most Blessed Trinity Academy’s Reading Committee. Show less

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  Mode Media Corporation (formerly Glam Media)

  May 2015 - Oct 2016

  Freelance Content Contributor

  • Created, wrote, and shared relevant and popular content for Mode Media remotely through Mode's Content Contributor Program in which catchy titles on pop-culture, women's health and lifestyle, parenting and teaching, food, and men's health and lifestyle were pitched and approved. • Utilized Mode Media's online platform to create compelling stories based on approved titles on a weekly basis, as well as sharing these stories on social media. • Effectively communicated with appropriate staff, and accomplished each writing goal within a timely manner. Show less

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  Health Alliance Plan

  Aug 2016 - Sept 2018

  Instructional Designer

  • Designed and facilitated corporate-wide eLearning, instructor-led, and blended instruction learning solutions. • Linked needs analysis to learning objectives and training approaches when implementing the design.• Led development of content from inception to implementation. Created custom content as needed. • Partnered with subject matter experts (SMEs) to determine learning management system (LMS) requirements, obtained information and organized it into instructional patterns suitable for all internal and external audiences. • Created detailed design documentation including storyboards, outlines, and templates. • Authored effective assessment questions, quality distractors and practiced interactions that accurately test the learner’s ability to meet the objectives. • Delivered top-quality training deliverables on time and on budget. • Developed, revised, and integrated policies and processes for HAP Individual business and performance needs to meet all state, federal, and business standards and requirements. Show less

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  Credit Acceptance

  Sept 2018 - now

  • Serve as a trusted partner and consultant to the business by supporting training initiatives thatimprove performance and contribute to intrinsic value.• Engage with internal departments such as the Project Management Office, DocumentDevelopment Team, Communications and Marketing, and Corporate Legal to meet the needs ofthe business while supporting a culture of compliance.• Effectively use the ADDIE model to build learner-centric training that incorporates best practicesin adult learning theory.• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to assess learning gaps and analyzetraining needs.• Design corporate-wide videos, eLearning courses, instructor-led, and blended instruction learningsolutions that meet clearly defined terminal and enabling objectives.• Lead development and delivery of learning solutions for various low, medium, and highcomplexity projects managed through the Project Management Office.• Collaborate with instructional designers, trainers, training coordinator, and LMS administrator todesign learning solutions and effectively implement those solutions for the impacted groups.• Demonstrate effective project management including meeting deadlines, maintaining schedules,as well as identifying and communicating risks and dependencies.• Identify process improvement and team development opportunities and create solutions topromote growth and progress for the team and organization. Show less

  • Manager, Training and Development

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Supervisor, Training & Development

    Aug 2019 - Mar 2022

  • Instructional Designer

    Sept 2018 - Aug 2019