Amy Jones
Eagle Mountain,UT
Summary
Experienced and passionate teacher with a love for educating those with special needs. 13+ years of experience in special education; Special Education Preschool Coach, Special Education Preschool Itinerant, Special Education Class Teacher and a Life Skills teacher. Able to crate and foster positive relationships with students, staff and parents. Able to differentiate instruction and develop appropriate IEP goals. Shares a common vision with the implementation of Alpine District's vision for learning, using data to drive instruction.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Preschool Special Education Coach
Alpine School District
08.2019 - Current
- Attend district meetings
- Attend leadership meetings
- District Representative for IEP meetings
- Coach special education teachers with compliance on paperwork
- Attend and help train at New Teacher Trainings
- Help plan and teach at Preschool Professional Developments
- Collaborate with staff, special education coaches and school teams
- Conduct UPIPS audit and review special education files for compliance
- Advocated for Special Education students
- Help determine Tier interventions, collect data, review data
- Help guide teaching according to data
- Facilitate implementation of Alpine District’s Vision for Learning
Preschool Special Education Itinerant
Alpine School District
08.2017 - 08.2019
- Served 4 classrooms
- Collected Data for IEP goals
- Data driven decisions
- Helped with classroom management in regular education preschool classrooms
- Implemented behavior interventions and collected data to observe if interventions were helping student progress
- Met regularly with school sped teams
- Worked closely with the special education para as to how to support students on IEPs in the classroom on days when I was at a different school
- Conducted IEP meetings
- Differentiated instruction
- Advocated for students with special needs
Preschool Special Education Classroom Teacher
Alpine School District (River Rock Elementary)
03.2015 - 08.2017
- Classroom teacher responsible for ALL student learning
- Made data based decisions
- Implemented classroom management
- Had expectations in place for my aides in the classroom
- Collected IEP goal and intervention data
- Collaborated with staff and mentor
- Held IEP meetings
- Developed parent and staff rapport
- Differentiated instruction
- Made sure student needs were met
- Advocated for my students
Sales Associate, Department Manager, Zone Manager
Walmart
02.2008 - 03.2015
- Worked in the apparel department
- Department manager over jewelry, accessories and shoes
- Zone manager over all of apparel
Life Skills Teacher 18-22 Yrs
Provo School District
08.1992 - 08.1997
- Worked with ages 18-22
- Taught life skills
- Taught social skills
- Trained students with on the job training
- Taught students how to ride the UTA
- Implemented Classroom Management
- Data based decisions
- IEP Paperwork
Education
Certification For Early Childhood - Early Childhood Special Education
Utah State University
Logan, UT08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Special Education
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT08.1992
Associate of Science - General Studies
Ricks College (BYU-Idaho)
Rexburg08.1989
Skills
Communicator
Collaborator
Problem Solver
Efficient
Committed
Reliable
Data Driven
Honest
Patient
Passionate
Leadership
Timeline
Preschool Special Education Coach
Alpine School District
08.2019 - Current
Preschool Special Education Itinerant
Alpine School District
08.2017 - 08.2019
Preschool Special Education Classroom Teacher
Alpine School District (River Rock Elementary)
03.2015 - 08.2017
Sales Associate, Department Manager, Zone Manager
Walmart
02.2008 - 03.2015
Life Skills Teacher 18-22 Yrs
Provo School District
08.1992 - 08.1997
Certification For Early Childhood - Early Childhood Special Education
Utah State University
Bachelor of Science - Special Education
Brigham Young University
Associate of Science - General Studies
Ricks College (BYU-Idaho)