N Hoffmann

Teacher - Oak Mountain Academy, Carrollton, GA • Teaching between four and six classes a day, including: o Ancient Civilizations (Prehistory to 1400), four years. Survey course focusing on the major cultures leading up to the Age of Exploration. o Modern Civilizations (1400 to Present), four years. Survey course focusing on the transition to the modern world. o US History, four years. Survey focusing on US history, utilizing a mixture of political science and culture. o AP United States History, four years, average score is 3.125. o World History, first year. Course combining Ancient Civilizations and Modern Civilizations. o Government, three years. Taught using a war game scenario; spoke about this at the GISA conference twice. o Economics, four years. Course starts with basics of economics and moves into the current economic crisis. o Post-War American Cultural Studies Elective. Incorporate literary, film, music, and comedy analysis with history. o Psychology Elective. First year, Along with biology teacher, teacher a psychology survey course. o Selected to be lead teacher for the 2012-2013 school years. • Curriculum Development and Director of Curriculum Mapping creator for Oak Mountain to allow us to surpass the Common Core Curriculum. • 2012-Present Governor’s Honor’s Program Coordinator. • 2011-2012 Oak Mountain Academy STAR Teacher. o The STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Recognition) run by the PAGE (Professional Association of Georgia Educators) is a program in which the top student of a school in terms of SAT score is chosen by each school. In return, the student chooses the teacher that has helped him the most in his academic pursuits for the STAR award. • Led study abroad trip in 2011 to France and Italy for eight days. o I led a group of 22 over Spring Break to visit several major cities in Europe including Rome, Florence, Pompeii, Paris, and Versailles. • Led study abroad trip in 2013 to Berlin and Prague for 8 days. o Led also visited Potsdam, Dresden, and Theresienstadt • Created and led the Oak Mountain Fencing Club of 17 fencers who had never fenced before and got them tournament-ready, hosting the club’s first tournament. 2010-present. • Sponsored the Student Government 2008-09 and 2011-Present school years. • Sponsoring a News Trivia Game weekly, 2011-2012 school year. Georgia Independent School Association Conference Presenter – Disease Detectives • Taking elements from Scientific Olympiad, the CDC, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? The biology teacher and I were able to construct a turn based game around an epidemiologist’s response to an outbreak. Georgia Independent School Association Conference Presenter – Teaching with War • Using the concept of an interactive war game, putting the students in the positions of power in the government and running scenarios with them to teach them the actual role of the players in a crisis. Guest Speaker - United Sons of the Confederacy Historical Society, Kennesaw Chapter, Marietta, GA • Topic: Dysentery and Defeat: A Tragic Medical History of the Civil War. Guest Speaker - United Daughters of the Confederacy Historical Society, Kennesaw Chapter, Marietta, GA • Topic: Dysentery and Defeat: A Tragic Medical History of the Civil War. (1/10) • Topic: Sectionalism and the creation of a Confederate State. (9/09) • Topic: Robert E. Lee, Paternal General. (1/09) • Topic: Athens’ Three Barreled Cannon. (10/08)

Discussion, Debate, and only occasionally lecture.

2011-2012 Oak Mountain Academy STAR Teacher. The STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Recognition) run by the PAGE (Professional Association of Georgia Educators) is a program in which the top student of a school in terms of SAT score is chosen by each school. In return, the student chooses the teacher that has helped him the most in his academic pursuits for the STAR award.

2007 - Miami University, B.A. History 2010 - Georgia State University, M. A. History, United States Focus 2011 - Georgia State University, M. A. T., Secondary Social Studies Education

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