Student Support Social Emotional
Resume:
Toya Howie
Works with adults and children in educational and in high-risk settings
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
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Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Student Support Interventionist
Hampton City Schools - Hampton, VA
October 2022 to Present
The Student Support Interventionist plans and provides learning experiences for students who demonstrate challenging behaviors in the educational setting. The position is responsible for creating an atmosphere aimed at enhancing the social and emotional development of students, resulting in improved behavior and academic success.
Essential Duties
• Collect data regarding student behaviors and develop appropriate modifications to foster responsible thinking and decision-making skills in students.
• Use discipline data (quantitative / qualitative) to monitor, group, and provide intervention to identified students.
• Adjust groups as needed based on the discipline data.
• Provide direct and indirect social emotional support to students in a positive environment.
• Provide daily intervention for identified tier 3 students daily, tier students three times a week, and tier 1 students once a week.
• Align social-emotional learning activities with the core curriculum. Incorporate social emotional learning activities that are sequenced, active, focused and explicit and provide ample practice for students with challenging behaviors.
• Use the HCS SEL resources as well as the PATHS program or other intervention resources to plan and deliver lessons for small groups. Use referral data to drive the lessons/activities in groups
• Create lesson plans for each group and turn them into the appropriate google folder for the upcoming week.
• Use ongoing data sources to maintain a record of student progress.
• Use data from admin, teachers, and referral documents to target specific interventions needed for identified students.
• Create goals with students and monitor their progress using their individual referral documentation.
• Develop strategies that assist students in assessing their own behavior. Residential Counselor (Part-time)
Judeo-Christian Outreach Center (JCOC) - Virginia Beach, VA October 2020 to January 2023
• Provides direct support to participants as needed.
• Maintaining a comprehensive written record of events in the program log that occur during shift, maintain participant sign in/out sheets, attendance log as well as all other logbooks and records, conduct intakes, assessments and referrals as needed.
• Review each set of individual intake forms for completion of individual’s data and information having individual sign and complete staff witness signature and date, control contraband in facility through general observation, room and package/purse searches if deemed necessary.
• Ensure facility and faith site cleanliness and monitor participant cleaning assignments when directed.
• Provide supervision throughout their shift.
ISAEP Project Support Teacher
Virginia Beach Public Schools - Virginia Beach, VA September 2020 to October 2022
• Supervised students in education settings.
• Provided classroom and small group instruction to students enrolled in an alternative school setting.
• Implemented individual education service plans for students.
• Planned a program of study that, as much as possible, meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the students; and addresses any and educational deficiencies that may prevent student from being successful in their established goals.
• Prepared lessons, data forms and selects instructional materials for group and individual instruction meeting state standards.
• Employed a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media, to correspond with the needs and capabilities of individual students.
• Encouraged students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
• Assisted with life management skills.
• Administered student assessments to ascertain academic needs of students enrolled in an alternative setting.
• Kept accurate documentation regarding student progress, needs, strengths, etc. (i.e., grades, observations, anecdotal records, other related date).
• Monitored student daily attendance and works with other personnel to prevent truancy. Communicates with parents, teachers, administrators, and related service providers on an as needed basis. Special Education Teacher Cross Categorical
Virginia Beach City Public Schools - Virginia Beach, VA October 2017 to April 2020
• Planned and prepared direct and indirect instruction to students in a positive environment with an emphasis on special education strategies.
• Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
• Assist in collection of data for providing appropriate classroom interventions.
• Provided services using the processes of assessment, monitoring and attainment of students' understanding using various methods.
• Communicated and consulted with parents on students' learning and progress. defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
• Developed and implemented programmatic learning plans.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop individualized education programs (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social/emotional development.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations. Inclusion Special Education Teacher
Norfolk Public Schools - Norfolk, VA
August 2016 to June 2017
• Provided direct and indirect instructional support to students in a positive environment.
• Taught socially acceptable behavior, as determined by the students' individualized education programs
(IEPs) by employing techniques in social skills.
• Conferred with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop individualized education programs (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social/emotional development.
• Maintained accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Assisted in collection of data for providing appropriate classroom intervention. Teacher Assistant
Virginia Beach City Public Schools - Beach, Virginia September 2014 to 2015
• Employed a variety of materials for children to explore and manipulate in learning activities and imaginative play.
• Carefully identified warning signs of emotional and developmental problems in children.
• Prepared monthly core summaries, managed field trips. Community Based Counselor
National Counseling Group - Virginia Beach, VA
March 2009 to November 2011
• Provided Home Based Counseling to at-risk youth and families.
• Composed an Individualized treatment plan to address identified issues.
• Initial assessment of competency & adaptive functioning. Individualized treatment plan to address identified issues.
• Community-based intervention and crisis response. Weekly collaboration with associated professionals.
• Assisted with accessing community supports.
• Received and implemented ongoing education and training on skills of independent living to ensure health and safety.
Education
Master's Degree in Special Education in Special Education K Regent University - Virginia Beach, VA
Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology
City University of New York - New York, NY
Skills
• Mental Health Counseling
• Autism Experience
• Behavioral Health
• Behavior Management
• Computer skills
• Classroom management
• Special education
Certifications and Licenses
Teaching Certification
Special Education Certification
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