Alexa Rohrer

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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