Sharmila Kumar

Address: ** ******* ******, ********, ** 11749, USA

Phone: 631-***-**** Mobile: 516-***-**** Email: acn2oy@r.postjobfree.com

Masters Qualified Teacher Experienced in Special & General Education and UI Development

Seeking to apply her professional teaching skills in a suitable position

PROFILE

Hardworking, sincere, patient, dedicated, observant, cheerful and understanding professional educator,

Sharmila Kumar, offers a teaching experience of 25 years obtained by educating children of Brunei,

United Arab Emirates and The United States. Until recently employed at Developmental Disabilities

Institute (DDI), a leading research based institute in the care and education of children and adults with

special needs.

Prior to the current employment, she taught English as a foreign language to students from Brunei

Darussalam and The United Arab Emirates.

Experienced in working with children from various cultural backgrounds and children with special needs,

Sharmila brings exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to this or any position she works in

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Flexible and adaptable with a “can do” attitude

Patient and understanding individual

Observant

Cheerful

Confident and a quick problem solver

Innovative

Creative

Enjoys and loves working with individuals with special needs.

MOST RECENT EMPLOYMENT

October 2007 – October 2011 Assistant Teacher

Developmental Disabilities Institute, Smithtown, New York, USA

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with children of special needs ---specializing in autism

Teach them to cope and become independent in their daily life skills

Assist the class teacher in preparing teaching aides for the children

Help teacher in taking behavior data on an ongoing daily bases

Prepare the classrooms for their daily activities

Deal with behaviors using skip intervention techniques

Teach children math/English/ comprehension

Outdoor trips into the community to teach them social skills

Outdoor trips to teach them vocational skills

Help the speech /OT /PT staff in running their goals

Train student teacher in running the goals

Shadow new staff and train them in dealing with behaviors

Communicate how the day went to parent

Assist the gym staff in the children’s physical exercises

ACHIEVEMENTS

Works efficiently and professionally –ensures that all work is completed accurately and in time

Worked as a substitute teacher

Attended staff trainings and meetings

Passed all the test s and met the high standards expected of all DDI staff.

EMPLOYEMENT HISTORY

2002 - 2003 Teacher

St. Joseph’s School, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2000 – 2002 Teacher

Little Flower School, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

1999 – 2000 Teacher

1995 - 1998 Leens School & Kindergarten, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

1994 – 1995 Teacher of English at High School Level

Model School, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

1993 – 1994 Teacher of English at Middle School Level

Arab Unity School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1986-1982 Teacher Ministry of Education Brunei Darussalam

PROFESSIONAL ASSETS

Excellent skills and knowledge teaching children, in general

A strong team player, but also capable of working independently

Trained & supervised interns and new staff

Highly dedicated and committed to work

Working knowledge of computers

CPR and first aid trained

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) trained

Strategic intervention techniques

Incident reporting

Trained in handling hazardous materials

Experienced in working with children with special needs

Training in school violence prevention and intervention

1 year of experience in application development, designing, debugging web applications using

web technologies like HTML5/4, CSS3, JavaScript, and JQuery

Significant experience in web development tools like Sublime, Notepad++, Adobe

Dreamweaver CS3 and Firebug.

Ability to work independently and also as a team player. Ability to act as “translation point”

between departments.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

New York State Certified Teacher (ESL)

New York State Certified Assistant Teacher (Special Education)

Master’s in Education Grade 9 to 12, Earned 12 Credits with a GPA of 4.0 from Adelphi University -

2003

Job focus & Marketing Program, Canada – 1998

Montessori Diploma, London Montessori Nursery Foundation (U.K.) – 1989

Masters of English Literature, Andhra University, India – 1984

Bachelor of English Literature, St. Joseph’s College, India – 1982

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