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Pine Grove Pa, 17963

Objective

To obtain a position working in an Elementary/ Special Education classroom setting to help children reach their potential, by building upon their strengths. I also plan to empower, motivate, and advocate for children with special needs.

Education

Alvernia University January 2006 – December 2012 Reading/Cressona, PA.

Graduated in December 2012 with a Bachelors of Art in Elementary/Special Education

Final GPA 3.43

My future plans include obtaining a Master’s Degree in Education

Teaching Experience

Elementary Student Teaching Placement:

Pine Grove Area Kindergarten classroom August 2012 October 2012

Special Education Teaching Placement:

Pottsville Area Elementary Life Skills classroom October 2012---December 2012

Field Experience Teaching Placement

Schuylkill Haven Elementary 4th grade Co Teaching classroom October 2010 November 2010

Certifications

Elementary Education (K-6) Special Education (N-12)

Work Experience

Newstory School, Harrisburg January 2017-June 2017 Harrisburg, Pa

Special Education Teacher

Classroom teacher responsible for 8 children with IEP’s, and 8 Behavioral Support Staff assigned to my classroom.

Responsible for developing, maintaining, and documenting all instructional and behavioral programs within the school setting.

Responsible for overseeing classroom dynamics and functioning of all staff within their classroom.

Entering daily probes/daily work pertaining to IEP goals

Preparing Progress Monitoring Reports for quarterly reporting.

My classroom was a Verbal Behavioral classroom with a specific schedule, Verbal Behavior Data and reports. Along with maintaining/creating/implementing various aspects of functional verbal operant on a week basics.

Develop a structured daily scheduled routine for all working in the classroom.

Responsible for documentation; daily parent/teacher communication; incident reports

Working hand-in-hand with Clinical Behavioral Consultants, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, and Speech/Language Therapists.

Developed worksheets; activities; and projects to stimulate/engage students in learning.

Responsible for recording and supervising medical interventions as needed.

Maintaining VB MAPP grids/assessments/skill tracking sheets.

Structured activities to practice appropriate social skills interactions with staff/peers by modeling appropriate/inappropriate scenarios regularly

Making sure students attend all possible job training experiences

Preparing student write ups for IEP meetings

Fill out student forms required by the school psychologist/wrap around services.

Lancaster Lebanon IU 13 June 2016- July 2016 Lebanon, Pa

Extended School Year MD Support Classroom Teacher

Head teacher responsible for five children with IEP’s; two Personal Care Assistants; two highly qualified paraprofessionals; and wrap around services during the 2016 ESY program

Trained in lifting students from their wheelchair to various PT equipment, and changing table

Collect/record data for IEP goals for each student.

Develop a structured daily scheduled routine for all working in the classroom.

Responsible for documentation; daily parent/teacher communication; incident reports

Appraised on a daily basis each students IEP goals by reviewing mastered skills on a one-on-one basis.

Included art/crafts; music and movement; morning meeting; social skills, verbal behavior instruction; and rotating centers into the daily routine.

Developed worksheets; activities; and projects to stimulate/engage students in learning.

Responsible for recording and supervising medical interventions as needed.

Implementing the use of Step by Step, and other assisted communication devices into instructional learning.

Lancaster Lebanon IU 13 May 2016- June 2016 Fairland Center Manheim, Pa.

Short term Emotional Support Classroom teacher

My job responsibilities were as follows:

•Entering daily probes/daily work pertaining to IEP goals

•Keeping track of entering information on behaviors/zone charts.

•Developing lesion plans

•Closing out the grade books

•Making sure information was enter into the right IEP goals progress monitoring system

•Creating/finding academic work/activities to utilize for data collection for progress monitoring

•Create/implement a new positive behavior point sheet to reduce behaviors

•Utilize new incentives to attend positive behavior

•Generate last quarter progress reports

•Filling out incident reports

•Creating a new structured schedule to best serve the needs of the students

•Creating science and social studies lessons and projects

•Maintaining the behavioral charts I created

•Overseeing/working side by side the two paraprofessionals in my classroom

•Creating new zones of regulation charts that better helped the students understand triggers/coping skills/feeling that held the student accountable

•Maintaining a open line of communication with parents/gabardines

•Structured activities to practice appropriate social skills interactions with staff/peers by modeling appropriate/inappropriate scenarios regularly

•Making sure students attend all possible job training experiences

•Preparing student write ups for IEP meetings

•Fill out student forms required by the school psychologist

•Attending evaluation meetings

•Implemented a more social appropriate morning group to meet the lacking social needs of the students, along with providing a appropriate way of communication among the students

•Maintaining a positive line of communication with other IU specialist

•Collecting social stories for students dealing with anger, accepting consequences, appropriate communication with peers/staff, classroom rules, zones of regulation, social acceptable manners eating in public

•Implemented schedule break times

•Implemented a reflection time where the students and I reviewed incidents (if any) behaviors/ triggers/coping skills, and "how could we have handled it better".

•Communicating with parents/guardians when inappropriate behavior occur

•Created an atmosphere of positive interactions, appreciating each other, meaningful learning experiences, being able to share individual talents, a more relaxed learning environment, less stress, a time to regroup when needed

Lancaster Lebanon IU 13 November 2015- April 2016 Lebanon, Pa

Homebound MDS teacher

•Teach student in a home setting during the winter months.

•Teach to IEP goals,

•Take data for progress monitoring.

•Provide a structured environment for learning and maintaining progress on IEP goals.

Lancaster Lebanon IU 13 June 2015- July 2015 Lebanon, Pa

Extended School Year Autistic Support Classroom Teacher

•Head teacher responsible for six children with IEP’s; two Personal Care Assistants; two highly qualified paraprofessionals; and wrap around services during the 2014 ESY program.

•Collect/record data for IEP goals for each student.

Develop a structured daily scheduled routine for all working in the classroom.

•Responsible for documentation; daily parent/teacher communication; incident reports

•Appraised on a daily basis each students IEP goals by reviewing mastered skills on a one-on-one basis.

•Included art/crafts; music and movement; morning meeting; social skills, verbal behavior instruction; and rotating centers into the daily routine.

•Developed worksheets; activities; and projects to stimulate/engage students in learning.

Lebanon-Lancaster IU 13 June 2014 – July 2014 Lebanon, Pa.

Extended School Year Autistic Support Classroom Teacher

Head teacher responsible for six children with IEP’s; two Personal Care Assistants; two highly qualified paraprofessionals; and wrap around services during the 2014 ESY program.

Collect/record data for IEP goals for each student.

Develop a structured daily scheduled routine for all working in the classroom.

Responsible for documentation; daily parent/teacher communication; incident reports

Appraised on a daily basis each students IEP goals by reviewing mastered skills on a one-on-one basis.

Included art/crafts; music and movement; morning meeting; social skills, verbal behavior instruction; and rotating centers into the daily routine.

Developed worksheets; activities; and projects to stimulate/engage students in learning.

Northern Lebanon School District August 2012 – June 2014 Fredericksburg, Pa.

Elementary Autistic Support Instructional Assistant

Working as part of a team to provide instruction (educational, social, and behavioral) to elementary students in a special education setting.

Teach language for learning, reading mastery, verbal behavior component and math lessons.

Probe and record daily VB information.

Instruct daily intensive teaching VB sessions.

Lead morning meeting routine.

Escort students to daily inclusion sessions.

Monitor students on the playground and at lunch.

Trained in both CPI and SCM techniques.

Filled in as head teacher for three weeks and the end of the 2013-2014 school year.

Youth Advocate Program August 2012 – June 2012 Frackville, Pa

Providence Community Services Inc. January 2010 – June 2012 Pottsville, Pa.

Therapeutic Support Staff/ Personal Care Assistant

Provided one-to-one behavioral health interventions to children and adolescents in the home, school or community settings.

Served as a model for behavioral interventions and pro-social behaviors to parents, teachers, and community members.

Worked with other team members to gather data and implement the best practices and interventions to help clients make progress on their individual goals.

Pottsville Area School District August 2009 – January 2010 Pottsville, PA.

Highly Qualified Paraprofessional Staff Worker

Worked in elementary school level life skills classroom.

Escorted child or group of children from specialized classroom to regular education classroom, when needed.

Gave support to accomplish activities, school work, projects, etc. in different settings, along with implementing behavior plans.

Worked with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.

Performed assigned classroom duties, such as snack time, toileting, clothing routines, as well as supervision of students during lunch periods, and play periods.

Wyomissing Area School District July 2004 – August 2009 Wyomissing, PA.

Highly Qualified Paraprofessional

Worked in various special education rooms (emotional support, learning support, autistic support, one-on-one personal aide, classroom aide). Assisted in regular education room as needed.

Provided direct instruction to a student or small group of students, to help reinforce the concept being taught, along with giving support to accomplish activities, school work, projects, etc. in different settings.

Responsible for filling out behavior charts, following behavior plans, and filling out daily communication reports from school to home, and provided monitoring and evaluation of student’s educational progress, along with gathering data/documentation for FBA’s as needed.

Assisted the head teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities according to the students IEP.

Monitored work, corrected papers, supervised curriculum-based testing, assisted with makeup work, and performed clerical/ classroom maintenance duties as assigned by the head teacher

Performed assigned supervision of students during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.

When requested to, served as a resource person to the General Education Intervention Team and/ or IEP team.

Administered weekly Math/Reading probes.

Graphed progress chats for IEP goals.

Worked during the summer in the schools ESY program.

Sacred Heart Catholic School August 2000 – June 2003 West Reading, PA.

Teacher’s Assistant in Pre-kindergarten Program

Responsible for getting the instructional materials need for the class.

Assisted the students completing daily paper work and activities.

Worked alongside teacher in the supervision of children in during lunch and recess.

Assisted students, individually or in small groups, with lesson assignments (e.g. read stories, providing writing assistance, reinforce language skills, numbers, alphabet, computer learning programs, etc.) for the purpose of practicing and/or reinforcing learning concepts and assisting students in reaching academic goals and grade level standards.

Performed general clerical tasks (e.g. laminating, making posters, making copies, bulletin boards, filing, newsletters, etc.) for the purpose of helping the teacher prepare instructional materials.

Honors and Activities

Educated to work with children with Autism on all levels on the spectrum, also attended several workshops that dealt with Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, Down syndrome, Behavioral Disabilities (ODD, OCD, ADD, ADHD, etc.)

Skilled in verbal behavior.

CPR/ First Aid Certified.

Instructed in various behavioral modification interventions.

Worked one on one with children with Autism (all levels of the spectrum), also with children with Down syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Behavioral Disabilities and Learning Disabilities.

Completed the highly qualified Para professional course provide by Berks County Intermediate Unit.

Collaborated in various reading programs (SRA, Orton-Dillingham, Reading Mastery, Foundations).

Worked with nonverbal children (some American Sign Language known, also worked using PECS Picture Exchange System).

Administered DIBELS and math weekly probes.

Taught in a co-teaching fourth grade classroom, during a field experience placement.

Participated in evaluation, tornado/hurricane, lockdown, and shooter safety drills.

Coached a CYO cheerleading squad for two years.

Volunteer in my church nursery

Volunteer in summer camp for my church

Certified in restraint, de-escalation, crisis prevention techniques, and behavior modification techniques.

Worked at a day camp for students with special needs.

Provided instruction in an after school program for intercity students for eight weeks.

Helped in the planning of a prom in a special needs school in Reading (John Paul II).

Made the Dean’s List for the fall 2012 semester.

Trained in Verbal Behavior program.

Instructed students in Reading Mastery and Language for learning programs in a small group setting.

Trained in CPI and SCM techniques.

Implemented ideas for crafts, math instruction, learning centers, vocational skills, and behavioral interventions for students.

References provided upon request

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