Shelley-Mae Alleyne
San Fernando,Trinidad & Tobago
Summary
Seasoned, Adaptable Teacher with more than 17 years teaching experience with a knack for developing foundational and advanced skills over a wide range of SEA related subjects. Skilled in developing tailored lesson plans that enhance student understanding and performance. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills. Competent at performing independently or as a member of teaching team. Well versed in classroom online technologies.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work history
Love it with my all-primary level teacher
Self employed
San Fernando, Trinidad
2008.01 - Current
- Conducted 18 years of after school tutoring sessions to both thriving and struggling primary school students
- Learnt to be a classroom mummy to primary school students. (the one thing my degree did not prepare me for...but my students nurtured in me, over time! lol😊)
- Paid deliberate individual attention to primary school students who felt they were not being seen, sufficiently, in the public school system.
- Encouraged struggling and shy classroom learners to teach me, how to teach them best! (wisest decision I ever made as a teacher!)
- Prioritized listening to the way in which primary level students of diverse learning intelligences and needs wanted to be taught. (this one humbled me as a teacher, early on in my 18-year teaching journey)
- Provided a competitive, "keep me on my toes" classroom environment for the faster, adaptive, top achiever learner. (more so for upper primary level students yearning for such)
- Motivated struggling and 'suffer in silence' primary level students to feel free to express themselves and believe in themselves! (this, gives me a sense of satisfaction, the most)
- Taught students, not just reading, but how to read!
- Fostered hands on, quirky yet mixed with a bit of traditional, intervention strategies for children demonstrating learning difficulties at reading, math, grammar, comprehension, spelling, vocabulary and writing.
- Adapted lesson materials to accommodate diverse learning needs of both neurotypical primary learners and neurodivergent primary learners. (a hobby of mine, if am not swimming or writing poetry)
- Monitored student responses to learning activities and adjusted such approaches, using both traditional and innovative tricks that make schoolwork seem 'like a breeze!'
- Integrated technology into lessons to make subjects more appealing to today's tech-savvy students. (which proved to be a saviour, particularly during the pandemic when I taught students, online, solely).
Secondary English teacher
Southern Community College
San Fernando, Trinidad
2006.01 - 2007.12
- Form 6 teacher for Communication Studies, English and General Paper
- Taught grammar principles for better written communication skills.
Research assistant
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad
2006.06 - 2007.11
English language lecturer
Cipriani Labour College
San Fernando
2006.02 - 2007.06
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Language and Literature with Education
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine /2003 - /2006
Cambridge A-Level - Literature and Business
Naparima Grils' High School
San Fernando, Trinidad /2003 - /2006
CXC o' level passes -
Naparima Girls' High School
San Fernando, Trinidad /1996 - /2023
Skills
- Child motivation
- Teaching empathy
- No question is a silly question empathy
- Fix a child's foundation teaching
- SEA mastery
- Clear communication
- Phonics strategies
- Multimedia instruction
- Online communication
- Online quiz design
- Parent-teacher communication
- Creative lesson planning
Affiliations
- Swimming
- poetry writing
- creating content for differentiated instruction
Accomplishments
University of the West Indies Award- Most outstanding student in American Literary Prose (2004/2005)
Naparima Girls' High school Byron Gopaul award for Management of Business (2002)
Namparima Girls' High school Achievement Award- Most diligent student of the year (2003)
Timeline
Love it with my all-primary level teacher
Self employed
2008.01 - Current
Research assistant
University of the West Indies
2006.06 - 2007.11
English language lecturer
Cipriani Labour College
2006.02 - 2007.06
Secondary English teacher
Southern Community College
2006.01 - 2007.12
Bachelor of Arts - Language and Literature with Education
University of the West Indies
/2003 - /2006
Cambridge A-Level - Literature and Business
Naparima Grils' High School
/2003 - /2006
CXC o' level passes -
Naparima Girls' High School
/1996 - /2023