Special Education Middle/ High School
Resume:
CHRISTY PORTER-BLACK
**** ******* ** **., *******, GA 30094
ady4ln@r.postjobfree.com
It is my goal to obtain a position that will allow me to use my strong passion for student development; social and cognitive, with my skills and experience that will enable me to make a difference in the life of each student that I have the pleasure of teaching.
EXPERIENCE
SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER
NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
UNION GROVE HIGH SCHOOL, HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS
PRICE MIDDLE SCHOOL, ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
AUGUST 1999- NOVEMBER 2009
Provide special education students with learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.
Develop or modify curricula and prepare lessons and other instructional materials to student ability levels in Language Arts and Social Studies
Plan and use appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment that reflect understanding of the learning styles and needs of students assigned.
Create classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students.
Implement an instructional, therapeutic, and skill development program for students.
SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION TRANSITION SPECIALIST
NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
DECMBER 2009- JUNE 2021
Develop and implement transition programs focused on the social, intellectual, and vocational growth of students.
Serve as a district liaison with area businesses, advisory groups, and agencies to encourage the further development of school-to-work opportunities.
Provide leadership and guidance for comprehensive system to coordinate school-to-work opportunities. Create and Facilitate Individual Education Plan (IEP), Summary of Performance (SOP) Trainings for all Secondary Teachers.
Complete grant proposals to fund career, vocational, and technical education.
Coordinate bringing the workplace into the classroom to provide a meaningful context for learning in all subject areas across curriculum.
Integrate curriculum with bringing the classroom into the workplace and provide actual job training experiences, mentoring relevant to the students’ career interests.
LEARNING SPECIALIST FACILITATOR
OVERTIME ELITE ACADEMY
JULY 2021-PRESENT
Utilize extensive knowledge of diverse learning aptitudes and strategies with strong interpersonal and communication skills to support/instruct students in all content areas
Responsibility to ensure that each student may learn and flourish academically, socially, emotionally in a nurturing and responsive environment
Set expectations that each student athlete achieve at a high academic and personal level to his potential
Support Teachers/Facilitators in differentiated instruction in content, process, product and environment
Collaborate with Academic Team to establish goals, clarify tasks, deliver content to strive for best practices.
EDUCATION
SPELMAN COLLEGE ATLANTA, GA AUGUST 1991- MAY 1993
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSTY ATLANTA, GA AUGUST 1993-MAY 1996
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, SOCIAL WORK BSW
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GA MAY 2001- DECEMBER 2003
SPECIAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION
WALDEN UNIVERSITY Minneapolis, MN AUGUST 2004- MAY 2006
MASTER OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION MS.ED
CERTIFICATION
GEORGIA PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS COMMISSION
CERTIFICATION #400799
EXPIRATION 06/30/2024
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