Joshua Thomas CV
Teaching Experience
- Teachers for Tomorrow Program (2019-2020 Academic Year)
- Hickory Middle School Chesapeake, VA
- Responsibilities include: Managing a 6th-grade inclusion classroom, Grading Assignments, teaching lessons, and interacting with students, parents, and faculty.
- Hickory Middle School Chesapeake, VA
- Private Lessons Teacher (2020-Current)
- Chesapeake VA
- Responsibilities include: Privately instructing students with the objective of said students improving their percussion skills. My students have gone on to be accepted into All-District Bands and All-Virginia Bands.
- Chesapeake VA
- Percussion instructor (May 2022- November 2023)
- Grassfield High School Chesapeake, VA
- Responsibilities include: Reinforcing marching and playing fundamentals, running rehearsals, and critiquing musical selections to improve overall performance.
- Grassfield High School Chesapeake, VA
- General Music Observation (December 2023- January 2024)
- Butts Road Elementary Chesapeake, VA
- Responsibilities include: Observing and writing reflections on my cooperating teachers’ teaching methods. I occasionally also helped tune string instruments.
- Butts Road Elementary Chesapeake, VA
- High School Band Practicum (March 2024-Current)
- Oscar Smith High School Chesapeake, VA
- Responsibilities include Teaching Lesson plans approved by my instructor.
- Oscar Smith High School Chesapeake, VA
Leadership Experience
- Drumline Section leader (July 2018-February 2020)
- Hickory High School Chesapeake, VA
- Monarch Drumline Equipment Manager (August 2022- January 2024)
- Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA