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| Desired Industry: Education/Teaching/Training |
SpiderID: 22232 |
| Desired Job Location: Martin, Tennessee |
Date Posted: 8/19/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 2 weeks notice |
| Desired Wage: 30,000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, More Than 75% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Masters |
Willing to Relocate: Yes |
Objective:
To enhance and provide rich, developmentally appropriate quality towards academic and social education, also; progressive learning and training, interpersonal care, security and competent safety for each individual (child or adult) under my supervision.
Experience:
June 2006-present (please do not contact):
Supported Employment Specialist in a non-profit industry involving the care, support, and employment of developmentally delayed adults.
CDS Industries, 152 Industrial Park Rd., Martin, TN.
This job has entailed the supervision and coordinating of 15 to 20 mildly, developmentally, delayed adults, in finding or creating employment; including training, evaluating, assessing, and implementing routine weekly contacts. Job searching, coaching, and contacts involve driving to and from several different towns in the Northwest section of Tennessee. More detailed duties include:
• Implementing daily, weekly, and monthly reports, 60 and 90 day stabilization reports, assessments and evaluations, job descriptions for new jobs, and various other types of paperwork is involved on each client under my supervision.
• Implementing Job Assessment Trials with clients in order to better assess and improve job skills and social skills, involving likes, dislikes, capabilities, job environment; possible accommodations, modifications, compatibility, and acceptance of hopeful employers.
• Assisting in initial, emergency, and annual ISP meetings to better accommodate clients' needs, employment goals, and holistic care.
• Implementing Job Evaluation Assessments on potential employment clients; evaluating potential skills, task abilities, social skills, client's preferences, and dislikes.
• Creating and implementing behavior intervention plans and goals, for particular employed clients when necessary, to enhance and improve their work potential.
August 1992-June 2006
Assistant Teacher/Interpreter in a mainstreamed/inclusion school
Pate Elementary School, 100 Indian Branch Road- Darlington, SC
This involved fifteen years of teaching and assisting deaf/hearing impaired students (pre-school-3rd grade), who also had other disabilities such as autism, ADD, ADHD, blind, autistic-blind, MR, LD, downs syndrome and other specific syndromes, CP, OCD, developmentally delayed, normal, twice, and even thrice exceptional. Duties included:
• The coordination and implementation of lesson plans, teaching academics, social and hygiene skills; teaching whole body language, using; ESL/ASL sign language and oral communication.
• Creating visual aides, role-playing, drama, and other creative arts.
• Interpreting and supervising students in special events, mainstream classes, field trips, and social events.
August 1991- June 1992
Darlington County School System, St. Johns Avenue, Darlington, SC.
Substitute teacher for all grades;
pre-school through high school.
Duties included:
• Implementing lesson plans, teaching academics, and sometimes interpreting.
• Most substitute jobs were for hearing impaired classrooms and mainstreamed individuals, due to experience with deaf/hearing impaired, special disabilities, and knowledge of sign language.
Other General Experience:
Throughout my lifetime; jobs, ministries, and personal situations have developed experience with all types of children to adults including: Hispanics, troubled and normal teens, emotionally and mentally disabled individuals of all ages, normal and multi-handicapped deaf/hearing/impaired (pre-school to senior adults), all levels of mentally retarded children to adults (profound, SMR, EMR, multi-handicapped, and mild), gifted, normal, substance abusers and children of these, schizophrenic, manic depressant, different types of seizure activity, and various other personality disorders.
Education:
• Westview High School, Martin, TN- graduated in 1972
• Union University, Jackson TN- Art/Psych major 1972-1973
• Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN- Art/Elem.Ed major 1973-1975
• UTM, Martin TN-Elem/Early Childhood Major- 2 quarters 1985
• Coker College, Hartsville, SC Elem/Early Childhood- Summer 2002-winter 2004, Sociology major- Winter/Spring 2005- summer 2006- Graduated with a B.A in Sociology
• Kaplan University, Chicago, Illinois, summer 2007- fall 2008 (have started last term) Master's in Special Education: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities-hopefully will graduate with highest honors October 2008.
Affiliations:
Affiliations and Awards:
• Top of class in Junior/Senior Art Program at Westview High School
• Awarded Tennessee State Top 40 Art student grant for summer art study at Murray State University
• Awarded Art scholarship for Union University
• Top Award Winner for Student Art Exhibit at Union University
• Received Outstanding Performance Award, employee of the month award (a few times) at Pate Elementary (which is a Blue Ribbon Award/ Red Carpet Award, Palmetto Achievement Award-winning school).
• Supported Employment Specialist Certificate of Special Training Completion
• Invited to (and will accept) Kaplan University Golden Key Honor Society for 4.0 GPA throughout entire Master's Program.
• Currently on President's Honor Roll
• Will graduate Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average
Skills:
Includes personal skills:
Basic computer skills, sign language skills, a little Spanish, artistic, creative, innovative, good social and motivational skills, lots of experience with the public, very resourceful, energetic, enthusiastic, have good writing skills, problem-solving skills, love people unconditionally of all ages and enjoy persuading them to their highest potential in a positive way.
Additional Information:
With the surmountal experience and education I have, I also would be willing to do types of social work, teach Special Ed., Pre-school, Elem. Ed., or Art at any level
Reference:
Rebekah Tedder
rebekaht@dcsdschools.org
Ph: 843-398-2419
Teacher for the deaf/hearing impaired
Pate Elementary School
1010 Indian Branch Road
Darlington, SC 29532
Terry Martin
terrym@dcsdschools.org
Ph: 843-398-2400
Principal
Pate Elementary School
1010 Indian Branch Road
Darlington, SC 29532
Deborah Matthews
deborahm1@dcsdschools.org
Art Teacher
Pate Elementary School (address same as above)
Ph: 398-5070
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