Caraleee (CJ) Jones Visual Arts, Middle/High School Teacher
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I am looking for a full-time position in an international school or as a private teacher. I tend towards play-based, inquiry-driven, discovery, place-based, and experience-based learning that focuses on where a person is at with their skills and moving forward from there. There are times when direct teaching is necessary but learning is more enjoyable when it is fun, active, and engaging. Learning tends to be a lot more enjoyable when it is interesting to the learner and free of the expectation that everything has to be right all the time. Sometimes, making a mistake can teach a person more than doing everything correctly.

Subjects

  • Social Studies Grade 5-Grade 11

  • English Literature & Language Grade 5-Grade 12

  • History (ancient, medieval, modern) Grade 5-Grade 12

  • Visual Arts Grade 4-Grade 12

Experience

  • Middle School Teacher (Aug, 2023–Present) at Canadian School Bahrain
    Performing all the normal duties of a teacher in an international school setting. Duties included but were not limited to developing and delivering curriculum based on the BC(Canada) curriculum, marking assignments and providing student feedback formally and informally, monitoring and correcting student behaviour, responding to parents' concerns and requests, attending professional development, arranging field trips, professionally conducting one's self, adhering to school policies, and generally completing tasks within the scope of my job.
  • High School Art Teacher (Jan, 2023–Jun, 2023) at BCCIS (East), El Shorouk, Cairo Governate
    Duties included but were not limited to preparation, planning, marking, and delivery of lessons, purchasing supplies, student evaluation both formal and informal, addressing student behavior, speaking with parents regularly about student progress, monitoring students on their breaks as well as before and after school, participating in afterschool activities, professional development, attending designated functions, and generally acting in the best interests of the school.
  • High School Teacher - a myriad of courses taught (Aug, 2006–Sep, 2022) at School District 74 - Gold Trail, Lillooet, BC: Teacher at Lillooet Secondary School
    At this school, I taught a wide variety of subject matter to students ages 11-19. Areas that I focused on were: English Literature and Writing, Social Studies, History, Home Economics (Cooking and Sewing), Visual Arts, and Career and College Guidance. I was also a sponsor for several clubs such as yearbook, photography, art studio, sports clubs, dances, field trips outside of the school curriculum, and trips abroad to another province as well as international trips to Europe and Central Asia.
  • Alternate (behaviour modification programs) High School Teacher (Feb, 1998–Jul, 2006) at School District 57 - Prince George, BC: Secondary Alternate Education Teacher
    Initially, I was a teacher-on-call for alternate programs that included working with hospital-bound or homebound learners, an adult education program, a gifted and enriched program, a modified school program for high-performance athletes, a drop-in Indigenous program, a full-time Indigenous program, a program for teenage mothers, several school programs provided in youth group homes, and a school program in a high-security youth containment facility where youth who had been involved in serious crimes were housed. Experience in these programs led to a full-time position in an off-campus Indigenous program called ReStart.
    The ReStart program used the North American Indigenous medicine wheel as a basis upon which students would grow in all areas of life while they completed high school. They were provided support and access to wrap-around services to assist them in whatever ways were necessary. Students had to show motivation, academic commitment, and promise to be considered as a candidate. Often these students had secondary issues that required some flexibility in their learning schedules to accommodate appointments with mental health practitioners, probation officers, social workers, doctors, work schedules, or heavy childcare expectations at home. Working in such a program requires more than the typical skills associated with teaching in a classroom: it requires a degree of commitment, teamwork, communication, understanding, flexibility, creativity, patience, empathy, and quick decision-making that is amplified by the needs of the clientele.

Education

  • Emergency Medical Technician (Apr, 2022–Jun, 2022) from Canadian Red Cross
  • Master of Education (Jul, 2016–Jul, 2020) from Vancouver Island University–scored 4.0
  • Bachelor of Education (Sep, 1991–May, 1996) from University of Victoria
  • Diploma of Recreation (Sep, 1989–May, 1991) from Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo

Fee details

    BD1,500/month (US$3947.37/month)

    This is my monthly wage in my current teaching position. It is too low for my years of experience and education.

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