L. Calvin Dillon, NBCT    

Work phone: (407)-622-8200 ext. 2225       Work email: dillonl@ocps.net
Web address: http://www.dillondesk.com


Teaching

Experience

Teacher Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School August '99-

Eatonville, FL Present

English Department Chair, responsible for conducting bimonthly meetings and ordering supplies and textbooks; created online student book review system; created FCAT screening instrument in MS ExcelÔ for tenth grade students using a state FCAT practice test to pinpoint benchmarks students need to work on, generating reports with recommended interventions available to all teachers

Webmaster, produced and edited content for each department and academy departments; created and managed web pages for every teacher; worked closely with student contributors; tied content to projects in classes (e.g., online student literary magazine, HTML portfolios for drafting classes, and "Fairy Tale" children's books done in PowerPoint as a Learn-and-Serve grant)

Yearbook advisor, responsible for digital processing of images and page layout using Adobe PhotoshopÔ and PagemakerÔ ; designed journalism and desktop production curriculum; produced an entirely digital yearbook

Technology Resource Teacher, created database in MS AccessÔ to record and track student uniform violations, created video commercials and PowerPoint announcements program, created multimedia presentations for awards ceremonies and administrative meetings, offered tech support to faculty for web page development and eClass

 

Teacher Winter Park Tech February '99-

Winter Park, FL Present

High School Credit Program Teacher, responsible for supervising students at night school in over 20 different subjects, providing needed one-on-one instruction and evaluation; created database in MS AccessÔ to track student attendance

SAT/GRE Program Teacher, developed and implemented standardized test curriculum for verbal sections of each test

 

Teacher Winter Park High School August 1998-

Winter Park, FL May 1999

WISE Program Teacher, responsible for creating curricula in Applied Communications and Personal Development, working with the COMPACT program, organized honors and awards ceremonies for at-risk students and created multimedia presentation for main campus awards ceremony; created in-class student computer network with donated computers

 

Teacher Meadowbrook Middle School August 1995-

Orlando, FL May 1998

Teacher of the Emotionally Handicapped, responsible for creating curricula and supervising Severely Emotionally Disturbed and Emotionally Handicapped students in a self-contained, all-day program, presenting management and discipline techniques to faculty

 

Other work experience

 

 

 

 

Counselor Brighter Pathways, Dr. Charlene Messenger January 1995-

Orlando, FL February 1999

Behavior Counselor and tutor, responsible for creating curricula and behavioral intervention programs for children and their parents; tutoring in SAT preparation and language arts for high school and middle school students

Item Writer ACT Testing Company January 1996-

Orlando, FL February 1998

Item Writer, composed passages used as reading units for the ACT test, as well as writing test items

Honors and Awards

  • National Board Certified Teacher, AYA/ELA November 2001 (Adolescent Young Adult / English Language Arts)
  • Teacher of the Year, Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School October 2000

Professional Involvement

  • Currently enrolled in county certification program for ESOL
  • "Great Beginnings" Induction Program Trainer
  • Liaison for "Teachers Discovering Computers"
  • Chairperson, CBLT Subcommittee on Peer Mentoring
  • Superintendent's Secondary Reading Advisory Panel
  • Presenter - Orange County Reading Council, February 2002,
  • "Paperless Assessment Techniques"
  • Presenter - Orange County Language Arts Conference, August 2001, "Ebooks and Instruction"
  • Presenter - Central Learning Community Staff Development Day, February 2001, "Storyboarding as a Composition Technique"
  • Presenter - Central Learning Community Staff Development Day, February 2000, "Shakespeare and the Internet"

 

Education

Master's in English Education

University of Florida Proteach Program August 1995

Bachelor's in English

University of Florida May 1992