Sarah Anderson

Classroom Teacher (Foundation, Year 1, Year 3/4 and Casual Teaching of all Year Levels)

• Developed strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues by maintaining open lines of communication and fostering a supportive learning environment.
• Adhere to schools’ policies regarding behaviour management - assist students to resolve conflict using appropriate problem solving strategies and ensure to document incidents into our Compass platform and notify relevant parties (e.g. parents, leadership staff and any other teachers).
• Teach lessons and carry out daily teaching tasks such as: taking the roll and inputting attendance data; collect and track forms and payments for excursions and various school events; prepare learning tasks and materials; yard duties; track students’ progress using a variety of assessment tools such as checklists, observational notes, student work samples, written tests or computer assessments such as Essential Assessment and Google Forms; input student data into spreadsheets or platforms such as SPA; update students’ goals; provide students with feedback; compose and respond to e-mails; answer phone calls from admin staff or parents; place relevant items into students’ files.
• Complete teaching duties while managing classroom behaviours and individual students’ social and emotional needs, constantly prioritising and multi-tasking.
• Track student growth in all learning areas with a variety of diagnostic, formative and summative formal and informal assessments to inform teaching.
• Collect and organise data using programs and platforms such as Excel, Google Sheets, SPA, and Insight Assessment.
• Analyse literacy and numeracy data in weekly cohort meetings and plan engaging lessons, learning intentions and differentiated tasks to support students’ growth.
• Create individual education plans for each student with targeted goals in key learning areas as well as identifying supports at school and at home to assist students in being successful.
• Continuously pursued professional development opportunities such as workshops or conferences to stay current in educational trends, as well as our twice weekly meetings where we had time to focus on educational tasks to support our school-wide improvement plan.
• Take minutes during meetings.
• During remote teaching, quickly adapted to online teaching platforms such as Google Meets, Google Teams, Google Slides, Seesaw and Google Classroom to continue to teach the curriculum remotely and support students in learning at home during the pandemic.

Team Leader - Foundation Cohort

• Worked with leadership to examine policies and create and inform school-wide initiatives and best practices, ensuring that these were rolled out consistently across the school.
• Liaise with leadership and other year level team leaders during weekly meetings to effectively communicate needs and expectations across the school and to create a positive and focused school climate.
• Mentored new teachers, as well as all teachers in my cohort, sharing best practices and providing guidance to help them adapt to new policies and initiatives.
• Created a timetable for each week to ensure we were covering all learning areas and including any special events, incursions or excursions.
• Curriculum mapping and long-term planning for each term to ensure we would cover all areas of the curriculum by the end of the academic year.
• Organized and ran Foundation Transition sessions.
• Organized extracurricular activities such as clubs or excursions, ensuring venues and buses were booked and forms were complete with all relevant information for parents.

Literacy Intervention and Support

• Liaised with teachers in Years Foundation to Year 2 to identify students at risk in literacy to create and implement targeted lessons and tasks to support their individual growth during small group and individual lessons.
• Learned and implemented the MiniLit program for students who were flagged as ‘at risk’ and required intervention.
• Used ongoing assessment tools to continually adapt lessons to reflect new goals.
• During remote learning, continued to support these students during one on one and small group video conferencing to read online texts and conduct phonics lessons and tasks using a variety of technology such as Google slides.

Auslan Specialist Teacher

• Rolled out a brand new languages program at our school for 2023.
• Studied the Auslan languages learning area of the Victorian Curriculum to gain knowledge of the Auslan language and community and what’s expected of my students.
• Applied my ongoing learning to teach all students in the school this new language with the support of Auslan Education Services.

• Greeted customers and helped with product questions, selections, and purchases, leading to satisfied customers.
• Assisted in managing inventory levels, accurately processing shipments, and restocking merchandise as needed.
• Increased sales revenue through effective product recommendations.
• Enhanced visual merchandising displays by arranging products strategically, attracting more customers to the store.
• Handled returns and exchanges professionally, resolving customer issues while adhering to company policies.
• Maintained a clean sales floor and straightened and faced merchandise.
• Used POS system to process sales, returns, online orders, and gift card activations.
• Balanced and organized the cash register throughout and after my shift by handling cash and recording transactions accurately.

• Multi-tasked to complete duties and deliver a high standard of service often by myself to corporate suite guests during a variety of sporting events (e.g. greet guests, prep food items, discuss menu and timing with guests, prepare and deliver food and serve and refill beverages).
• Heat up, prepare and present food as per written instructions.
• Use time management skills to ensure food was ready for guests at appropriate times (e.g. in time for the half time break).
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by promptly attending to their needs and providing expert personalized service in a high class venue to create memorable moments for guests.
• Delivered exceptional service in a demanding atmosphere during challenging circumstances, receiving commendations from both clients, colleagues and supervisors alike.
• Completed post-event tasks such as cleaning, breakdown, re-stocking and inventory management to leave the corporate suite ready for the next event.
• Adhered to food safety protocols and policies as well as responsible service of alcohol.
• Efficiently resolved any guest complaints using excellent problem-solving and communication skills resulting in satisfied customers who gave outstanding feedback.