Teach IB Biology at an IB-DP secondary school and participate in developing additional motivational co-curricular activities like (currently) Science Knights and the Korean International Schools' Science Olympic program.
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Jay Reimer
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Objective
Summary
Work History
Suwon, Korea, Republic of
Aug 2007 - Present
Science Teacher-Leader
HIGHLIGHTS
- Invited presenter at Hong Kong’s 21st Century Learning conference (Sept. 17-19, 2009), demonstrating:
- PBworks and CoveritLive (web-based teaching and collaboration tools)
- Sandvox (Macintosh specific website building software)
- Started Science Knights; GSIS's middle school science fair (2008).
- Founder teacher of Korean International School Science Olympics (2008).
- Teaching assignments:
- middle school mathematics (6 & 7)
- middle school science (8)
- high school biology, chemistry, environmental science, anatomy & physiology
- International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP): Higher Level and Standard Level biology
- Initial teacher in high school science department at opening of GSIS high school division (2007).
- Coached middle school soccer (3 yrs)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- IB-DP category 1 (2008) and 2 (2010) training
- IB-DP internal assessment (IA) training (2009)
- Scuba Diving license with Open Water Certification (2009)
- American Red Cross certification as Shallow Water Attendant & First Aid (2009)
- IB-MYP category 1 training (2007)
Toledo, WA, United States
Aug 1998 - Jun 2007
Science Teacher
HIGHLIGHTS
- Coached "Experiment Design" in Science Olympiad to 3 consecutive years of Washington state championship.
- Developed building projects to apply learning, promote student engagement, teach practical skills, and produce opportunity for authentic assessment.
- Designed science curriculum for grades 9 and 10 to meet new state guidelines.
- Developed performance-based, authentic assessments to measure learning.
- Selected by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s (FHCRC) extension training program to bring research and lab techniques to small rural high schools.
- Coached: girls soccer, Science Olympiad, Knowledge Bowl.
Education
Bellingham, WA, United States
Jan 1996 - Jul 1998
MEd, Secondary Education
Summary
- Achieved master's degree in secondary education (4-12).
- Earned Washington state teaching certificate.
Highlights
- Selected by faculty as convocation speaker for university wide graduation (August, 1998); theme, "We Will be the Responsible Generation."
- Student taught in Abbotsford, BC, Canada while studying in Washington, USA.
Langley, BC, Canada
Sep 1992 - Apr 1994
BSc, Biology
Highlights
- Graduated with distinction.
- Completed independent, senior, field research project contrasting reproductive strategies of freshwater mussels in local streams of British Columbia.
Guelph, ON, Canada
Aug 1985 - Apr 1990
BASc, Human Nutrition
Highlights
- Before (and during) this degree Jay worked several times in East Africa with organizations promoting food security.
- Sudan - Fellowship for African Relief (FAR); 1991
- Sudan & Eritrea - with Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); 1990
- Ethiopia - with Serving in Ministry (SIM); 1985, 1989
Skills
Website Construction
(Intermediate)5-6 Years Experience, (Currently in use)
- Built first website to publish curriculum work and publicize student products & excellence.
- Constructed and maintain a hybrid personal/work website.
- Independently made a website in support of curricular activity to provide standardized information for students from 3 grade levels and 12 different class sections for intra-school science fair.
Wiki Collaborator
(Advanced)3-4 Years Experience, (Currently in use)
- Create wiki for technology presentation in Hong Kong 2009
- Demonstrated leadership in developing wiki to share information with new teachers to international school.
- Built wiki as collaboration tool to standardize delivery and assessment of a 3-teacher, 4-secton science course.
- Repeatedly use wiki to plan inter-school Science Olympics in Korea.
- Make course wikis routinely to communicate course expectations and provide platform for student collaboration
Digital Tools Pointman
(Advanced)5-6 Years Experience, (Currently in use)
Pilot technology applications (voluntarily/ independently) & promote suitable applications formally and informally.
- PBworks
- Google mail (instrumental in moving school to current Gmail platform)
- Google Docs (initially the Google Doc evangelist at curent school)
- Cover-It-Live
- Starrynight
- Moodle
- OmniGraffle
- Tinkerplots
Motivating Students
Motivating Students to Achieve
A proud father and his deserving son celebrate achievement at Science Knights 2009.
Learning By Choice
Having unique aptitudes means that each student can learn more easily in some modes than other. Here Chris and Sam composed and sang "Ventilation is Easy" over the soundtrack of "Ballad to Yoko Ono" as a way to demonstrate their understanding of lung function.
Challenging Each Student
Amber watches Tamara solder an LED to an EFT in order to build her "static charge field detector" for 9th grade science.
Every student brings unique skills and abilities, therefore each one needs to be challenged by different means.
Certificates & Licenses
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