Shannon Armstrong

• Learning Support & Individualized Instruction: Demonstrated expertise in providing targeted in-class support to students requiring additional learning assistance. Skilled in managing small groups and one-on-one sessions to enhance reading, mathematics, and language skills through tailored educational strategies.
• Communication & Collaboration: Effectively communicated with teachers, parents, and staff to facilitate a cohesive educational environment. Regularly participated in school meetings, providing insights and feedback to improve student learning outcomes.
• Classroom Management: Maintained and set up classroom environments that are conducive to learning, ensuring all areas are safe and supportive for students. Applied strategies to use the classroom setup as a tool in teaching, often adjusting layouts to better suit learning activities.
• Educational Technology Proficiency: Proficient in using GSuite for Education and other ICT tools to enhance teaching effectiveness and administrative efficiency, ensuring a smooth digital workflow in educational settings.
• Confidentiality & Sensitivity: Handled sensitive information regarding student performance and personal circumstances with utmost confidentiality and professionalism, fostering a trustful environment for students and parents.
• Supportive School Activities: Engaged with students during co-curricular activities and school events, providing support and supervision to ensure inclusive participation and safety. Contributed to the planning and execution of educational field trips, enhancing learning through real-world experiences.
• Professional Development: Actively sought professional learning opportunities to enhance skills in special needs education and learning support, participating in workshops and seminars to stay updated with educational trends and methodologies.

Key Skills

• Specialized Learning Support: Extensive experience supporting students in a learning support environment, particularly in developing literacy and numeracy skills.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal abilities, with a track record of building strong relationships with students, parents, and educational staff.
• Initiative and Problem Solving: Proven capability to show initiative in educational settings, identifying needs and implementing effective solutions promptly.

• Taught kindergarten students in English immersion environment, according to Multiple Intelligence's educational philosophy and practices of Howard Gardner.
• Lesson planning, facilitation and continuous assessment.
• Mentored new teachers
• Created child-centered learning environment characterized by consistent application of sound mental health and educational psychology practices.
• Delivered lesson plans, implemented school curriculum and used data to create, monitor and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
• Assessed comprehensive student growth including academic, social and personal skills.
• Instructed children between ages three and six on mathematical basics, as well as telling time.
• Exercised good classroom management focused on positive behavior support by clearly articulating fair and consistent expectations along with appropriate natural consequences.
• Delegated tasks to teacher assistants and school volunteers.
• Arranged parent-teacher conferences to address student progress and collaboratively set goals for areas of improvement.
• Delivered structured lessons on readiness skills by emphasizing phonics, language skills, literature and handwriting.
• Encouraged and prepared students to become independent readers through systematic, multi-sensory instruction in phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
• Collaborated in planning, organizing and implementing instructional programs to facilitate academic, intellectual and social development.
• Reported to parents and administration about student progress.
• Observed and assessed student performance and charted progress.
• Regularly participated as Master of Ceremonies for school events.
• Planned and conducted marketing and school events as part of event coordination team e.g. Art Gala, Christmas Concert, U.N. Day etc.
• Privately trained learners for National English competitions for which several of the learners have received top awards.

• New product development.
• Oversee all product production and development within the department.
• Develop new and exciting products and ideas.
• Design efficient products that are cost effective, aesthetically desirable, and useful.
• Liaise with various other departments to maintain quality and desired results.
• Company closed due to bad investments.

• Contracting and sub-contracting to various local construction companies and private builders.
• Renovating lived-in structures.
• Construction of new structures from ground work to roof and finishings.
• Costings, budgets and salaries.
• Managing staff.
• Setting up and breaking down site.
• Stopped trading for new business opportunity for growth.

• Managed the front floor including background staff.
• Managed stock.
• Controlled orders, registers and banking.
• Business venture by myself and Red Wagon Construction.
• Business was sold.

• Servicing existing clients and cultivating new business.
• Planning and formulating new business plans with owners and management.
• Develop sales programs and protocol as this was a brand new position.

• Sales and marketing of new and used vehicles. Stock control and stock takes.
• Vehicle licensing and road worthies.
• Basic computer programming and networking.

• Was moved up from a minor branch to a flagship branch within 2 months.
• Managing, recruiting, developing, training staff.
• Overseeing and training of all HODs.
• Attending and reporting at executive board meetings.
• Advancing new operating procedure and providing system training/ development.
• Banking formalities and controlling expenditure against prescribed budget.
• Improving retention of members.
• Customer service responsibilities.
• Company closed doors and terminated all positions.

• Site planning and staff management- transport, hiring, firing etc.
• Income settlements and quality control.
• Client liaison.
• Created many living facilities for humanity and acquired diverse skills.

• Precision machining on lathe and turning machines. Machinery maintenance.
• Staff management and facilitation.
• Delivery management.