Professional Resume

Education

Associate of Science in Early Child Education. May2010
Special focus on Program Director specialization.
Named to the Dean’s list for excellent academic standing.

B.S in Electronic and Communication Engineering (Aug93–July97)
Alagappa Chettiar College of Engg. and Tech, India.

Education Consultant, Hyderabad, India. July 2011 – Present.
- Services include, but not limited to setting up school libraries, story telling, teacher training workshops, supporting childcare providers(teachers as well as parents).
For detailed list of services, salient features, core competencies and references send an email to utbtkids@gmail.com.

Experience Working With Children
Center based teaching experience, California, Feb 2007 – Dec 2010
- Worked in centers following various educational philosophies. Have a thorough understanding of Montessori and play-based curriculum implementation.
- Classroom set up.
- Preparing and maintaining a safe, clean and orderly indoor environment.
- Curriculum planning and execution.
- Conduct group activities with children.
- Involve children in calm purposeful activity in the classroom.
- Parent – teacher conferences.
- Documenting children’s progress.
- Preparing individual portfolios for children.

Tamil language teacher, teaching elementary level children
California Tamil Academy, San Jose, CA. Sept 2009 – June 2010.
Responsibilities include but not limited to
- Curriculum planning(within CTA’s frame work and syllabus) and execution.
- Giving lessons on Tamil alphabet sounds and writing practice.
- Lead children in classroom activities.
- Create opportunities and inspire them to converse in Tamil.
- Assessing children’s progress.
- Conduct parent – teacher conferences.

Special Areas Of Interest
Language development and its role in identity formation.
Role of culture in child rearing.
Mother tongue as the secondary language.
Bridging the gap between curriculum and what is perceived as leisure time reading.

Sample Curriculums
When it comes to curriculum planning for the children in their formative years, I believe in a web like structure, where all the knowledge they acquire is is weaved in like a web. As a teacher, I visualize my role is not just knowledge dissemination, but I must show the child how all knowledge is interconnected. This reinforcement, I feel is primary in any learning process.

Some of the sample curriculum webs I developed:
Pennies for Peace. Can a simple concept of collecting pennies for Greg Mortenson’s initiative, branch out in to a full fledged curriculum web that can sustain a whole year? Yes, it can. Check out PFP Curiculum Web.

A classroom always brings us images of a room, with an authority figure, tables and chairs with children working as busy bees. Can we break this image and achieve the same result with a classroom outside, in the garden, in the lap of nature, where children are free to move, laugh and learn? Check out my garden web.

Other Teaching Related Experiences

Tamil classes at the Indian Community Center. Jan 2007 – Aug 2007.
- Involved in curriculum development for the Tamil Language classes.
- Authored a Tamil book for children. The purpose of the book was to aid and enrich the classroom(preschool – Grade 1) experience,
- Actively involved in the committee to plan the structure of the class, teaching techniques and teaching aides.

Parent and Me classes at the Indian Community Center. June2007 – Aug2007
- For children age group 1 through 3 attending the class with a parent.
- Offered once a week, for 90 minutes.
- Theme based story telling, circle time songs, reading and activity.
- Though the classes are for children of all ethnicity, there are activities that offer the child an introduction to India.

Teaching Yoga
I have experimented on using Yoga for children diagnosed to have attention problems. I have more than 100 hours of experience teaching yoga for both children and adults. I volunteered part of this time for a Bay Area non-profit organization Yogabarathi that works to provide yoga awareness in the US.

Software Engineer
Jan 2000 – Sept 2002
I worked as a Software Engineer designing applications with a JAVA and HTML based user interface that interacts with an ORACLE based back end for airline cargo companies. My job responsibilities included designing software models as per client specifications, testing and back end support.

I am looking forward to combining my experiences as a Software Engineer with my Early Childhood Education knowledge in order to serve children and their families.

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST(Ping me at utbtkids@gmail.com)