Marcy Evans Peterson

Work History

Special Education Paraeducator 11/04-11/23

Howard County Public Schools 10220 Wetherburn Road, Ellicott City, MD 21042

Duties include but not limited to:

Observe, montior and respond to student's behavior based upon their individualized education goals and objectives.

Teach with the intent that the students with meet their objectives

Look for alternative approaches if goals and objectives are not being met with the current educational strategy

Display sensitivity to the cultural and linguistic needs of the students and family

Develop goal-oriented psycho-educational and activity therapy groups via feedback forms, emails and telephone calls.

Identify early warning signs for students with possible emotional and developmental problems.

Engage with children individually to meet their emotionaly and sensory development needs.

Analyze data weekly, creating visual graphs, and tables for measuring academic success and changing objectives weekly.

Waiver Therapist Intensive Individual Support Services and Respite

Joyful Wisdom Enterprises 11\2004-\12\2014

Created behavioral/Communication/Community Living strategies and lesson plan to meet the needs of students with Autism

Redirected students from problematic behavior using token economy, picture schedules and pointed ignoring.

Use the principles Classical and Operant conditioning

Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to treatment utlizing statistics (mean and average) to average behavioral data and complete monthly reports that a unio the parents, school and their state files

Attended numerous trainings to refine my skills such as Yearly CO-MAR requirements, Social thinking-Autism and Adolescence, Picture Exchange Communication System

Naturalawn of America-Sales representative/Collections/Office worker

Communication between prospective and active customer

Supervison of other represensatives

Data entry

Maintained up to date customer accounts

answered phones

scheduled service calls

Education

Grand Canyon University, 2014 Phoenix, AZ General Psychology GPA 3.92 Masters of Science

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Towson University, 2004 Towson, MD BS in Special Eduction and Psychology GPA 3.3

Carroll Community College 2000 Westminster, MD A Arts and Sciences

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