Category: TEACHER

         TEACHER       Summary     Responsible Special Education Teacher with excellent communication skills demonstrated by 10 years of teaching experience.  Skilled special needs high school teacher with the ability to work with children of various emotional and behavioral challenges.  Teacher with experience identifying children's individual and collective learning needs.       Core Qualifications         Excellent classroom management  Experience working special needs students  Interactive teaching/learning  Performance assessments  CPR certification     Differentiated instruction  CPR/First-aid certified  Behavior modification  Behavioral/cognitive skills development  Goal Setting and Implementation            Achievements      Parent Communication     Regularly met with parents to discuss student issues and course weakness areas. (30 day reviews & annual IEP)    Education Strategies     Employed special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of study skills, social skills and test taking skills.     Lesson Planning:   Introduced new learning methods to ensure total comprehension for all students .         Professional Experience      Teacher   01/2004   to   Current     Company Name   City  ,   State       Assists in planning, developing and revising curriculum to improve vocational/educational and community awareness skills of children and adolescents with developmental and behavioral disabilities.  Plan, implement, and evaluate structured educational programs.  Completes report cards and 30 Day Educational reviews for each student.  Obtain, prepare, and organize instructional materials.  Prepare lessons and teach specified content.  Instruct students individually or in small groups.  Prepares and implements student IEP treatment plans.          Teacher Assistant   03/2001   to   12/2003     Company Name   City  ,   State       Assists in planning, developing and revising curriculum to improve vocational/educational and community awareness skills of children and adolescents with developmental and behavioral disabilities.  Assists and provides support for teacher through tutoring, classroom support and following through with learning, social and behavioral needs of assigned students.  Obtain, prepare, and organize instructional materials.  Prepare lessons and teach specified content.  Instruct students individually or in small groups.  Assists in the preparation/implementation of IEP goals.          Residential Counselor   11/2001   to   02/2002     Company Name   City  ,   State       Provide therapeutic recreation and guidance counseling for children with a wide range of psychiatric and emotional disorders, developmental disabilities and/or neurological impairments.  Interact with clients on a daily basis in order to assist clients to achieve treatment goals, earn responsibility points and maintain their levels.  Work closely with Supervisor and Coworkers in scheduling structured activities for clients to successfully interact with one another as well as with their Staff, Teachers and Parents.  Being able to run meetings, pertaining to subjects which aide in behavior management, behavior modification, anger management, peer mediation and social skills.          Office Manager   10/1999   to   11/2001     Company Name   City  ,   State       Responsible for day to day operations of a small office including tracking for accounting (Peachtree), sales leads fulfillment, shipping, receiving, invoicing and other Administrative duties.  Maintaining all customers and inventory information on tracing database (ACT) as well as processing of accounts payables, receivables, purchase orders and sales orders for all thermal analysis equipment.  Act as Administrator for Human Resource Department, which include health benefits, retirement funds and all Employee records.          Therapeutic Recreational Counselor   04/1998   to   11/2001     Company Name   City  ,   State       Provide therapeutic recreation and guidance counseling for children with a wide range of psychiatric and emotional disorders, developmental disabilities and/or neurological impairments.  Interact with clients on a daily basis in order to assist clients to achieve treatment goals, earn responsibility points and maintain their levels.  Work closely with Supervisor and Coworkers in scheduling structured activities for clients to successfully interact with one another as well as with their Staff, Teachers and Parents.  Being able to run meetings, pertaining to subjects which aide in behavior management, behavior modification, anger management, peer mediation and social skills.          Administrative Assistant   10/1997   to   10/1999     Company Name   City  ,   State       Maintain records of: deposit receivables, financial records for accounting & auditing purposes, employee payroll, track employee hours for benefits including pension, annuity and health and welfare.  Student tracking: class schedules, renewal of state licenses and updating course information.  Duties also include preparing of all Grant funded reimbursement forms, student stipend checks, Board meeting material and preparing annually approved motions of the Board - budget, policy & procedures.  Work directly under Executive Director, assisting in producing an Annual Budget and completing assignments or tasks given by Executive Director or by the Board of Trustees.          Teller/Bank Representative III   06/1992   to   08/1998     Company Name   City  ,   State       To provide high quality customer service from a teller banking station: processing transactions, quickly and accurately, adhering to established security safeguards, identification procedures and other bank policies and procedures, identify and act upon opportunities to refer customers to PNC bank specialists who sell specific products and services.          Inward Call Activation Representative   01/1997   to   09/1997     Company Name   City  ,   State       Take incoming telephone calls from customers responding to marketing offers such as promotional rates, transferring balances from one account to another, processing necessary adjustments on accounts to obtain optimal satisfaction, releasing accounts from the fraud que and producing miscellaneous reports and other duties as assigned by manager.          Therapeutic Support Staff   05/1995   to   01/1997     Company Name   City  ,   State       To provide therapeutic support to the child or adolescent in specific areas of social, behavioral and emotional concern and needs while also providing support of the child's family members, educators or other responsible adults in order to prevent more restrictive services or out of home placement.  This support also provides one on one mental health interventions to children with serious emotional disturbance, which may include positive behavioral reinforcement, emotional support, time structuring activities and time-out strategies.  This service also provides psychosocial rehabilitative activities as prescribed in the child's treatment plan and crisis intervention techniques.          Head Teacher   11/1994   to   05/1995     Company Name   City  ,   State       Caring for 12-18 month old infants while planning and implementing learning activities on day-to-day basis.          Education and Training      Master's of Science  :   Human Resource Management   5 2005       St. Joseph's University   City  ,   State        Masters in Human Resource Management         Bachelor of Science  :   Social Relations   5 1994       Cheyney University of Pennsylvania   City  ,   State        BS in Social Relations         Certifications     PDE Dual Certification for Special Education K-12 and Elementary Education k-6.       Community Involvement     Work with children ages 5-7 at New Life in Christ in the Garden Ministry as a teacher on every first Sunday of the month.  As a teacher in the Garden ministry my duties include teaching young children the lesson while incorporating various strategies to engage all children.         Affiliations     member of the YMCA Coatesville Brandywine where i volunteer as a basketball coach       Skills     accounting, accounts payables, Administrative, AOL, auditing, banking, benefits, Budget, Business Works, content, counseling, clients, customer service, databases, database, Email, financial, forms, funds, Human Resource, Internet Explorer, Internet Applications, inventory, invoicing, Lotus, Director, marketing, materials, mediation, meetings, mental health, Access, Excel, office, Microsoft Office 98, Outlook, Power Point, 2000, Word, Netscape Navigator, payroll, Peachtree, Peachtree (accounting software, policies, producing, quality, receiving, sales, SAP, scheduling, shipping, structured, Supervisor, teacher, telephone, tutoring