Teaching Experience

 

Special Education, Ages 2-5                                                                                   August 2014 - Present

Raytown C-2 School District                                                                                                         Raytown, MO 

• Part Time Special Education Itinerant Teacher / Part time teacher to students in self-contained special education setting 

• Partner with Title I teachers to provide interventions; identify and evaluate students to determine eligibility for special education services 

• Evaluate and write Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for students eligible from Missouri First Steps as well as re-evaluations and annual IEPs for students on current caseload 

• Co-Leading teaching team to develop a school-wide social skills curriculum

• Member of the school-wide Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) team  

 

Special Education, Grades K-1-2-4                                                                       August 2012 - June 2014

Raytown C-2 School District                                                                                                                 Raytown, MO 

• Teacher to students with a variety of mild-moderate needs in a self-contained setting 

• Worked cooperatively with general education teachers and support staff to organize push-in support for students in the general education setting for maximum, appropriate, inclusion 

• Collaborated and led a total of 6 instructional assistants in the self-contained and general education setting 

• Responsible for writing evaluations, creating and following IEPs, Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA), and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) for students with fidelity 

• Member of the school-wide Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) team 

 

Head Start Teacher, Ages 3-4-5                                                                                       June - August 2012

Operation Breakthrough                                                                                                                Kansas City, MO 

• Long term substitute as lead teacher in a pre school classroom of 20 students

• Co-Taught with one other lead teacher

• Developed and implemented small group and large group lesson plans 

• Adapted and individualized instruction to meet the various developmental needs of learners 

Teaching Internship Experience

 

General Education, Grade 1                                                                                              January - May 2012

John Allen Elementary School                                                                                                          Ann Arbor, MI 

• Co-taught specific subject areas including literacy, science, math, and social studies

• Co-advised the student environmental organization, "Pride Team"  

• Organized and facilitated a cross age peer mentoring and tutoring program 

 

Special Education, Grades K-1-3-4-5                                                                 August - December 2011

John Allen Elementary School                                                                                                          Ann Arbor, MI 

• Trained in and taught direct literacy instruction and Response to Intervention (RTI) methods and approaches 

• Collaborated with general education teachers, special education support staff, and administration 

• Conducted norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessments 

• Developed initial special education referrals and evaluations and IEPs (with supervision)

Organizational Involvement

 

Missouri National Education Association (MNEA)

• Building Representative

 

Professional Development

 

• Missouri PBIS Summer Institutes (Building Representative for years 2013, 2015)

• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)

• Smarter Balanced Assessments

• Writing Quality Present Levels in IEPs

• Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) 

• Special Education Common Core

• Elementary Road to Reading

• "Tyler" System Training

• Writing Strategies for Functional Skills 

• Teach Like a Champion

• Smart Board 

• For a more in depth look at my professional development experiences, please see my transcript

2010 - present

2010 - present