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Alexa Rohrer

Summary

Compassionate educator dedicated to helping students improve emotional and academic abilities in order to better capitalize on available educational opportunities. Highly organized and proactive with excellent planning and communication skills. Organized and successful at providing classroom and emotional structure for special needs children required to flourish in academic setting. Certified and licensed in New York and Virginia and recognized as highly qualified educator. Coordinates well with classroom teachers with supportive strategies for behavior management and lesson accommodations for students.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

2-5 Bridge Intervention Teacher

Neighborhood Charter Schools Harlem
01.2024 - Current
  • Assisted in creating a safe and nurturing classroom environment that promoted emotional well-being and academic growth for all students.
  • Gathered, organized, and analyzed data on student needs and progress.
  • Collaborated with teachers to assess needs, set objectives, and discuss strategies.
  • Created and implemented systematic instruction plans individualized to students' specific needs
  • Co-taught a variety of ELA, math, and writing lessons
  • Demonstrated flexibility and a team player mentality by switching positions halfway through the school year when an intervention position needed to be filled by someone with a high level of expertise in individualizing instruction.

Grade 2 Integrated Co-Teacher

Neighborhood Charter Schools Harlem
08.2023 - 01.2024
  • Supported students in developing social skills through structured activities and positive reinforcement techniques.
  • Collaborated with teachers and therapists to develop individualized educational plans for each student, ensuring optimal progress.
  • Experienced co-teaching and primary teaching in a 2nd grade Integrated Co-Teaching classroom instructing students with a high range of diverse needs.
  • Used a variety of instructional strategies, materials, and groupings to support students performing below performance level while also challenging students meeting standards to use higher level thinking and real world connections with material learned.
  • Assessed and targeted instruction based on students decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills using the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark system.
  • Planned and implemented rigorous guided reading group lessons with whole group thinking targets and individual student goals.

K-3 Enhanced Autism Teacher

Fairhill Elementary School
08.2021 - 06.2023

• Guide instruction based and general education curriculum with an additional focus on Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals, behavior management, communication, social and adaptive living skills

• Create systematic instructional plans to teach new skills through task analysis while utilizing reinforcement, shaping, prompting, fading, chaining, and discrimination

• Monitor student progress and lesson effectiveness through ongoing data collection

• Maintain consistent communication with families to best support the student as a collaborative team

• Design and implement an intensive schedule for staff and visual schedule for students to create clear classroom expectations

• Write and present Educational Evaluation Reports based on results from the Standardized Brigance Assessment.

• Prepare students for the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program or Standards of Learning Tests

• Collaborate with related service providers to utilize their knowledge on how to best implement supports in the classroom

• Write and revise student IEPs and ensure necessary accommodations are documented and provided

Extended School Year Autism Teacher, K-3

Camelot Elementary School
07.2022 - 08.2022
  • Continued evidence-based programs that students received throughout the school year
  • Collected baseline data to determine students' current levels of performance and progress monitoring data to track rate of learning and growth
  • Planned daily activities to keep students engaged and on track with learning goals.

Extended School Year Autism Teacher, K-2

Randolph Elementary School
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Administered preference assessments to determine appropriate reinforcers to use to increase student engagement
  • Taught whole group, small group, and one on one individualized lessons targeting all curriculum areas and IEP goals

Education

Master of Arts - Elementary School Teaching

James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies

James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
05.2020

Skills

  • Response to Intervention
  • Parent Communication
  • One-on-one support
  • Strategic Planning
  • Small Group Instruction
  • IEP compliance
  • Progress Monitoring
  • Multisensory Teaching

Accomplishments

  • Fairhill Elementary Cheerleading Coach, Fall 2022
  • Presidents List, JMU, Spring 2018-Spring 2021
  • Founder and President of Bulldogs Understanding Differences in Students (BUDS)Special Education Club, Fall 2012- Spring 2016
  • Spokesperson and Member of Anti-Bullying program , Fall 2014-Spring 2016

Certification

  • MANDT, Needs of Children with Autism, Dignity for All Students Act, School Violence Prevention and Intervention, First Aid/CPR/AED, Child Abuse/Neglect, Dyslexia, Brigance, Lexia Core 5 Reading Program
  • Information Technology Literacy (ITL): Mastery of LAMP Words for Life, iReady, News2You, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Slides, Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, SeaStars IEP system, iMovie, Schoology, Canva, Kahoot, Lexia Core 5 Reading Program, ST Math, Powerpoint, Excel, Boom Learning

Timeline

2-5 Bridge Intervention Teacher

Neighborhood Charter Schools Harlem
01.2024 - Current

Grade 2 Integrated Co-Teacher

Neighborhood Charter Schools Harlem
08.2023 - 01.2024

Extended School Year Autism Teacher, K-3

Camelot Elementary School
07.2022 - 08.2022

K-3 Enhanced Autism Teacher

Fairhill Elementary School
08.2021 - 06.2023

Extended School Year Autism Teacher, K-2

Randolph Elementary School
06.2021 - 08.2021

Master of Arts - Elementary School Teaching

James Madison University

Bachelor of Science - Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies

James Madison University
  • MANDT, Needs of Children with Autism, Dignity for All Students Act, School Violence Prevention and Intervention, First Aid/CPR/AED, Child Abuse/Neglect, Dyslexia, Brigance, Lexia Core 5 Reading Program
  • Information Technology Literacy (ITL): Mastery of LAMP Words for Life, iReady, News2You, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Slides, Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, SeaStars IEP system, iMovie, Schoology, Canva, Kahoot, Lexia Core 5 Reading Program, ST Math, Powerpoint, Excel, Boom Learning
Alexa Rohrer