Arull Thesomayananthan
Brampton,Ontario
Summary
- Fluent in English, Tamil and Malayalam communication
- Over 5 years experience as an educator in Ontario and international experience
- More than 8 years experience working with Kindergartens to University Students
- Developed strong diverse cultural competency while working at Fletcher's Meadow International Languages
- Created a website to share how to create an inclusive anti- racist classroom, supporting wellbeing and achievement of 2SLGBTQIA+ identifying students and evident-based strategies to teach reading (https://arullt.weebly.com/right-to-read.html)
- Anti-Racist Leadership seen in my school and personal initiatives in the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (Cassa), Urban Alliance on Race Alliance and South Asian Health Alliance.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Education Policy Research
Urban Alliance on Race Relations
- Analyzed and interpreted policies, legislation in education relating to equity in Ontario
EQUITY IN EDUCATION
Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA)
- Communicated weekly with highschool and university student volunteers, assisting with issues and questions.
- Organized events with university student volunteers for high school students
- Worked together with community partners to dismantle a community issue, Islamophobia in the education system
- Facilitated Islamophobia training session using guest speakers for high school, university students and parents
Coding ( EML Lead) and Drama Teacher
Larkspur Public School
Brampton, ON
09.2022 - Current
- A leader in the school's anti-racism, 2SLGBTQIA+and anti-oppression work through bringing student and staff identity to the forefront, creating videos demonstrating community voices and staff voices to teach about different religions, cultures to all students
- Serving on a team of teacher leaders who are working with the board Indigenous Education Resource Teacher to work with staff in the decolonization of our classroom library collections.
- Put forth a proposal for an Empowering Modem Learners grant which connects a community need/problem. traffic safety, to multilingual technology and community/school partnerships through video creation and podcasting.
- Planned and implemented components of curricular, co-curricular programs and activities such Coding club, Black student Association and Muslim student Association (MSA).
Teacher
Malala Yousafzai Public School
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Highly committed to the school by joining the Community Connections Committee where we Planned School-wide events for our community
- Utilized technology (such as Phonics Blitz, letter tiles, reading eggs, Lexia Learning, Headsprout) for students to have stronger phonic awareness
- Taught phonological awareness through rhyming, blending, segmenting and manipulating larger sound units
- Improved student grammar and conversational skills through role play assignments.
Teacher
Nelson Mandela Public School
Brampton, ON
11.2020 - 01.2022
- Embraced the MTSS approach for a flexible framework that can be used to support students at all levels of need
- Used sports to teach statistics by allowing students collect and analyze data on the number of goals scored in soccer games
- Created personalized and gamified lessons to help students learn the sight words and game called "War" to practice comparing numbers/fractions
- Utilized multisensory instruction which involves using sight, sound, touch, and movement (Letter Formation, Sensory Word Tracing, Sound Boxes , Kinesthetic Spelling ) to teach students to read
- Use real-world architecture from different countries to teach angle
- Used some short and catchy phrases to help students remember phonics (Aw! The saw has a flaw.")
Education
Bachelor of Education -
Redeemer University College
2020
Honors Bachelors-Psychology, Neuroscience And Behavior -
McMaster University
04.2018
Skills
- Intermediate Health and Physical Education
- Senior Division First Nations, Métis & Inuit Studies
- Science of Reading - Developing Readers Part 1 & 2
- Anti-Black Racism to Change
- CPR & First Aid OCT
- HIGH FIVE Principles of Healthy Child Development
- Behavior Management Systems
- The Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontario's with Disabilities Act
- Personality, Human Learning & Cognition, Motivation & Emotion, Human Behavior, Developmental Psychology
- Community Engagement Principles
Timeline
Coding ( EML Lead) and Drama Teacher
Larkspur Public School
09.2022 - Current
Teacher
Malala Yousafzai Public School
02.2022 - 06.2022
Teacher
Nelson Mandela Public School
11.2020 - 01.2022
Education Policy Research
Urban Alliance on Race Relations
EQUITY IN EDUCATION
Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA)
Bachelor of Education -
Redeemer University College
Honors Bachelors-Psychology, Neuroscience And Behavior -
McMaster University
References
Sumitra Lad- Principal Phone: 905-799-2952- E- mail: sumitra.lad@peelsb.com
Mangladeep Dhot- Onsite EDP- 416-716-1352-7- E-mail: mangladeep@yahoo.com
Susan Baier Vice- Principal Phone: 905-799-2952- E-mail: susan.baier@peelsb.com
References
1. Elizabeth England- (647) 282-5429
2. William Sandy Sparks,(647) 462-6837.
3. Connie Wilson, (647) 328-3646
4. Alison Liddell, School Teacher- (416) 435-3441
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