TARA CAMPBELL
Apt **•
Roanoke VA 24012•
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
Employment
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACH 08/12 TO PRESENT
BEDFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL BEDFORD, VA
• Maintain classroom management skills and an ability to keep students on task.
• Taught students using Unique Learning Systems.
• Developed individual Education Plans for students.
• Tracked students IEP progress using check sheets and Microsoft excel.
• Taught self-help skills such as toileting and eating.
• Provided sensory diet to students.
FIRST GRADE TEACHER 03/12 TO 06/12
MONETA ELEMETARY MONETA, VA
• Maintain excellent classroom management skills and an ability to keep students on task.
• Use behavior modification techniques as a motivator for improving conduct and encouraging participation.
• Integrate multiple teaching styles to intensify the range of learning.
• Supervise stimulating math learning centers utilizing various manipulates
• Teach guided reading lessons to model questioning, clarification, and problem solving techniques.
• Challenged students to master basic math concepts using manipulative (food, squares of varying colors, sizes, shapes), graphing, and charting exercises that developed problem-solving skills
• Expanded the range of learning through whole class, individual, and small group instruction, cooperative education, and math, science, reading, art, and multi-sensory learning centers.
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER 10/11 TO PRESENT
MINNICK EDUCATION CENTER ROANOKE, VA
• Wrote individual lesson plans to suit student IEP needs
• Trained and administer VAAP
• Taught using Applied Behavior Analysis
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER 01/11 TO 09/11
RIVER BEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RALEIGH, NC
• Taught in the intellectually disabled-severe classroom
• Taught using a sensory based curriculum
• Taught Unique Learning Systems Curriculum
• Taught Meville to Weeville Curriculum
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER 09/06 TO 12/10
WEST PENDER MIDDLE SCHOOL BURGAW, NC
• Team taught students in math and language arts
• Prepared students for EOG testing
• Taught basic skills using SRA Corrective Reading
• Taught basic skills using SRA Connecting Math Concepts
• Trained staff in Response to Intervention
• Participated in the Student Support Team
• Participated in the Student Problem Solving Team
• Trained staff on tier 1 interventions
Education
SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 01/02 TO 01/05
Dowling College Oakdale, NY
Special
Skills
RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION TRAINED (RTI)
• Attended 8 day training in Lumberton NC
• Conducted staff training for RTI
• Oversaw RTI progression throughout the school
• Met with teachers struggling with RTI processes and procedures