Date
03/25/2025
Position Information
Position desired: Teacher
Subjects you can teach: 7-12 Humanities Teacher, 7-12 Philosophy Teacher, Arts and Media Teacher, Spanish Teacher
Willing to relocate to:
Summary:
I want to work in education as a career as a high school art or history teacher. I recently graduated from college with a Bachelors of Arts. I majored with a Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, and Law degree and a minor in History. I have taught kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades religion, spelling, math, English, literature, history, led and assisted gym classes, and supervised lunches, recesses, and study halls. for St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights. I am investigating enrolling for a Masters in Teaching from National Louis University as my first choice school or Northeastern Illinois University as my second. I am learning from teachers at St. Peter how to manage a classroom. I am also inspired by administration leaders I have met. I could see myself working in there some day, if that’s where I am needed. I would also compete for physical education instructor positions. Extracurricularly, I can coach defensive backs in football, shooting guards in basketball, relays in track, and/or volleyball players.
1216 N Dunton Ave
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 United States
Home Phone:
Cell Phone: (224) 409-1188
Email: samcmayo@gmail.com
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Highest Level of Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Institutions Attended:
| Institution Name | Degree Earned (i.e., BA in English) | Date Graduated | Emphasis |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Richmond | BA in PPEL and History | December 2024 | Philosophy and History |
Employment History:
| Position | Employer | Dates of Service | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substitute Teacher | St. Peter Lutheran School | January 2025 – Present | Responsible for teaching each core subject, supervising lunches and recess, maintaining classroom standards |
| Carpenter’s Apprentice | Mayo Construction | July– December 2024 | Responsible for communicating senior carpenters plans, transmitting information between parties, and installing furniture and appliances |
| Maintenance and Facilities Employee | St. Peter Lutheran School | Summer 2021 & Summer 2023 | Responsible for inspecting facilities, entering teacher project requests in online software, and applyinig manager’s solutions to systems in disrepair |
Additional Qualifications: -conversational spanish
-microsoft word operationality
-microsoft excel operatinality
-microsoft powerpoint operationality
-gmail organization
-google calendar experience
-guitar playing experience
Additional Experience with CCE: friends with a teacher and family at an ACCS school.
Hobbies, Interests, and Family: Hobbies – Men’s rugby, mountain biking, beach trips
Interests – Spanish, French, European history, sports
Family – Dad, Nate, me, Josh, and Daniel, and our dog, bella. I love each of them.
Top 5 Books: 1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Abolition of Man
3. The Everlasting Man
4. Dracula
5. Coraline
Top 3 Books: 1. What it means to be Protestant
I like Gavin Ortlund, and I’m curious about what happened during the Protestand Reformation
2. The Hobbit & “El Hobbit”
I wanted to learn more Spanish
3. Disarming Leviathan: loving your Christian nationalist neighbor
I wanted a break from sensationalized Instagram posts
Most Influential Books: 1. The NLT Bible
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress
3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Preferred Denomination Type: Reformed
Current Church: The Orchard
Current Church Denomination: Evangelical Free/nondenominational
Current Church Membership: No
Current Church Attendance: Weekly
Support of Traditional Marriage: Yes
Theology: Trinity – Three-personed God who restores us to our home in himself.
Sacraments – God’s intended means of instilling his life to people. They are the Lord’s Supper and Baptism. God operates through them to movingly and materially to demonstrate himself to us.
Word – the word and the gospel are God’s primary means of giving life to people. Hearing God speak through it is like food and water that our spirit needs daily.
Belief in the inerrancy of Scripture?: Yes
Notes on Scripture: Scripture is like beautiful music. It also the best story ever told. God, being inventor of music and stories, tells us beautifully, heroically, and specfically his work throughout time.
Jesus is the Word. He never misses a moral teaching, a historical detail, an emphasis, a tone, anything. It is our job to interpret written scripture as we imagine the Word himself would.
Additional classical training: Studied introductory and elementary Greek at University of Richmond. Learned articles, cases, and tenses like aorist, and read translations of playwrights like Aristophanes.
Read Contemporary and Classic Christian books from Center for Christian Study. These included “Return of the God Hypothesis” by Dr. Stephen Meyer and Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Why I want to teach at a classical school: I love working in education and I want to keep working with kids. Christian classical education draws me in because I love Christ, children, and making classics accessible to everyone.
Final thoughts: Hearing about opportunities to work in education in any capacity would thrill me.