Experience Summary
I offer you years of experience working with individuals with disabilities, in a variety of capacities, with a recently completed Master’s degree in Special Education. I know the importance of research-based practices and data to support evaluations and interventions.
Throughout my career I have achieved a consistent history of strong behavioral health plan development and implementation, coordination with educational professionals and active volunteerism with the Autism Society of America since 1991. I am flexible and adapt well to change, always willing to accept new challenges. I am recognized for my knowledge and patience and am now exploring opportunities where my interpersonal communication skills would be valuable to a position that included client educational development and training.
Teaching Style
As a special education masters degreed professional, advocate and behavior specialist and a Board Member and WALK event founder and chairperson for the past three years for the Autism Society of America, you can be sure I believe that all students of all abilities should receive an appropriate education that takes into account their strengths, weaknesses, disability if any and learning style. The key to all teaching and learning is motivation. Teachers are challenged to find the correct motivation for each student and strategies to connect with them by connecting the real world to their curriculum and academic goals. Any child can learn, it is just that students need to be met where they are in life and rapport established to plant seeds of motivation and for learning to begin. We all remember those teachers who were kind to us, made the subject matter either fun, interesting or both. We left their classroom and relationship with a sense of pride and accomplishment even if the subject was perhaps not our favorite subject. We may have even developed interest in something we thought we never would or achieved a level that we never thought we would.