Vince Lococo

Physical Education Department Chair Teacher @Messmer High School

Milwaukee, WI, US

Manage 2-3 teachers in the department; create teacher schedules• Serve as a mentor for new teachers• Manage and allocate all department funds; manage equipment inventory • Instruct health and physical education classes as large as 30 students; use a variety of teaching methods to instruct students of different learning styles• Utilize Google Classroom as a way to better communicate with the students• Introduced Polar heart rate monitors into our physical education curriculum; helped develop a grading scale based on the use of heart rate monitors that is used for every PE student• Successfully implemented Fitness Gram into the physical education curriculum • Designed and implemented safe and effective weight training programs for strength and conditioning classes; introduced exercise sciences techniques and concepts into the curriculum with the goal of answering the question - “why do we train the way we train?”• Rewrote the human reproduction curriculum to be more comprehensive, yet still abstinence based, teaching students assertive communication skills as a tool for healthy relationships• Introduced the use of MyFitnessPal as part of the nutrition curriculum to help students track and analyze eating habits, and monitor trends