Amber Calloway
Dover,DE
Summary
Creative and ambitious Early Childhood Special Education professional devoted to offering diverse activity plans and experiential learning opportunities to enhance individual development. Friendly, supportive and motivated with strong desire to promote student potential. Offering 11 years of experience with passion for building strong rapport with faculty, students and caregivers.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Special Education Teacher
Elwyn Davidson School
08.2023 - Current
- Assess students' abilities and craft teaching plans
- Adapt learning materials to students' needs
- Keep track of and reflect on students' progress
- Monitor children's behavioral patterns and arrange appropriate interventions if needed
- Find engaging activities to teach skills
- Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict
- Provides directions to instructional assistants, volunteers and/or student aides for the purpose of providing an effective school program and addressing the needs of individual students
- Inform parents about their children's performance and potential problems
- Coach/mentor other professionals who work with children with disabilities
- Collaborates with school personnel, parents and various community agencies for the purpose of improving the quality of student outcomes, developing solutions and planning curriculum
- Assesses students' social needs (e.g
- Behavioral, motor, development, communication, etc.), academic needs, progress, expectations, goals etc
- (e.g
- Developmental level, vocational abilities, etc.) for the purpose of evaluating students and family requirements, placement and success of the program
- Reports incidents (e.g
- Fights, suspected child abuse, suspected substance abuse, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining personal safety of students, providing a positive learning environment and adhering to Education Code, administrative and/or school policies, uses a variety of instructional strategies such as, PECS, TEACCH, and Discrete Trial
Pre- K Special Needs Teacher
Mercer County Board Of Education
08.2014 - 06.2023
- Implements instructional activities that contribute to climate where students are actively engaged in meaningful learning experiences
- Identifies, selects, and modifies instructional resources to meet needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and special needs
- Provides positive environment in which students are encouraged to be actively engaged in learning process
- Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing, with students, parents, and other professionals on regular basis
- Collaborates with peers to enhance instructional environment
- Models professional and ethical standards when dealing with students, parents, peers, and community
- Ensures that student growth and achievement is continuous and appropriate for age group, subject area, and/or program classification
- Demonstrates gains in student performance
- Meets professional obligations through efficient work habits such as: meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by administrator
- Monitors and records students' progress and achievements and identified areas in need of further development
- Use simple Sign Language in children's presence to enhance learning
- Helps children to develop socially, intellectually, physically, and emotionally
- Motivates and challenges students through hands-on experiences and cooperative learning activities in collaborative environment.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members to develop comprehensive support plans for each student''s unique needs.
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
Pre-K Special Needs Teacher
McDowell County Board of Education
08.2011 - 06.2014
- Integrated Smartboard and other instructional technologies into classroom
- Assessed submitted class assignments, determined grades and reviewed work with struggling students to boost success chance
- Prepared and implemented lesson plans covering required course topics
- Cultivated relationships with parents for complete support network
- Diversified teaching techniques and learning tools help students with differing ability levels and varied learning modalities
- Kept classroom environments consistent and focused on learning by establishing and enforcing clear objectives
- Increased parent satisfaction through well-organized IEP meetings and family conferences focused on improving parent-child bonding skills
- Provided one-on-one attention to students, while maintaining overall focus on entire group
- Utilized group and hands-on learning experiences for proficient teacher evaluation score.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
Education
M. Ed Reading Specialist -
Concord University
12.2015
B.S. Early Childhood Special Education -
Concord University
05.2011
Skills
- Play-based instruction
- Structured play knowledge
- Curriculum Development
- Well-versed in teaching methods
- Tech-savvy
- Differentiated instruction
- Child development
- Solid people skills
- Classroom management
- Early Childhood Education
- Group and individual instruction
- Planning and Coordination
- Communication skills
- Special education
- Individual Education Plans IEPs
- Small Group Instruction
- Collaborative Teamwork
- Data Management
- Lesson Planning
- Inclusion Strategies
Accomplishments
Mercer County Early Learning Center Teacher of the Year 2019,2021
Awards
- Teacher of the Year 2019
- Teacher of the Year 2021
Timeline
Special Education Teacher
Elwyn Davidson School
08.2023 - Current
Pre- K Special Needs Teacher
Mercer County Board Of Education
08.2014 - 06.2023
Pre-K Special Needs Teacher
McDowell County Board of Education
08.2011 - 06.2014
M. Ed Reading Specialist -
Concord University
B.S. Early Childhood Special Education -
Concord University
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